Agreed, of course, we are talking about a nearly 200 dollar difference in radios here. So I can understand Motorola's vocoder technology being a little pricey on top of probably being far more rugged than the Trisquare units. I can see the Motorola vocoder being great for RF-interference but I can see the analog spread-spectrum stuff working better on the fringes of comm. range.
I can not find a side-by-side comparison but for the general public, if we were all using Trisquare, then as setup now, a small city would be able to use these entirely in place of their landline phones and cell phones if the range/line-of-sight issues were overcome, all with out interfering each other. At least, that is the theory. I think I'll be picking up a twin pack of the TSX300 soon. Some one brought them to one of my my ham club meetings and we were impressed. There were even some kids there and they figured out the text-messaging rather quickly.
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