[aprssig] Re: D-STAR video on YouTube

[Scott Miller]

I'm all for coming up with an open alternative.  Sounds like a fun 
discussion for DCC.  Use the Speex codec or get the Ogg guys to come up 
with something, add data services with some MEANING assigned to them, 
carrying something a little more creative than NMEA sentences, make the 
protocol flexible an extensible but not hugely complex... and maybe 
start thinking about something better than FM and GMSK.  COFDM, maybe? 
I'll leave that part to those with more RF background.

Scott
N1VG

Patrick Green wrote:
> I wonder if D-Star would die if someone came up with a completely open 
> version of digital radio.  I see all this interest in SDR and D-Star's 
> licensing would make it inconvenient to make a software based radio.  
> Will this be the ultimate downfall?  Who here wants to buy a packet TNC 
> when your soundcard can basically do the same thing?  Just a thought.
> 
> 73 de Pat --- KA9SCF.
> 
> On 9/24/07, *Stephen - K1LNX* <k1lnx at k1lnx.net <mailto:k1lnx at k1lnx.net>> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
>     I have 2 problems with that however, the first one is as others have
>     pointed out, we don't need proprietary codecs being transmitted over
>     the air that we aren't free to duplicate or implement without a
>     license. 
> 
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