Will any of the new Uniden Scanners decode D-Star Ham Radio ? I know Icom has a scanner that will. Does Uniden ?
Doubt it, Icom has pretty much blocked anyone else from acquiring the D-Star technology, as they like to call it in their flyers.
If they would license it to the other manufacturers, Yaesu, Kenwood, Alinco, i think it would take off. As it is now i wouldn't worry about it, its a dying breed. Plenty of websites talking about it dying off and Icom has said sales were too slow.
Now if i could add it to my Yaesu's, or get a newer Yaesu with D-Star, i might be interested. Right now its too expensive to get into when nobody else around you has a radio capable of it.
Doubt it, Icom has pretty much blocked anyone else from acquiring the D-Star technology, as they like to call it in their flyers.
If they would license it to the other manufacturers, Yaesu, Kenwood, Alinco, i think it would take off. As it is now i wouldn't worry about it, its a dying breed. Plenty of websites talking about it dying off and Icom has said sales were too slow.
Now if i could add it to my Yaesu's, or get a newer Yaesu with D-Star, i might be interested. Right now its too expensive to get into when nobody else around you has a radio capable of it.
Obviously your reading the wrong info, ICOM doesn't own DSTAR, it is OPEN SOURCE. Kenwood is starting to build DSTAR capable radios and word is others will as well since the ARRL supports it as one of the digital protocols for amature radio along with P25. And if you pay attention to sales radios with DSTAR are selling, just not in large numbers..... like everything else right now all sales are down.
V
The word about Kenwood building D-STAR radios is that they are re-branded
ICOM radios and only available in Japan.
I didnt know the league supported anything. W1AW has a D-STAR repeater
on 1.2 ghz and it probably has no use on it at all. They also are trying to put
up D-STAR repeaters on 2m and 440, but have had no luck getting a club to
put them on the air. As far as sales of the D-STAR equipment, it has dropped
off quite a bit since ICOM raised their prices in June of this year.
wesct
Although Alabama is often heard being ranked at the bottom of lists, they are actually in the forefront of D-Star activity. Heart of Dixie amateurs have built a very nice state-wide digital repeater network that's linked to the world. Plenty on the web about this, here's one link: http://www.arrl-al.org/Alabama_link.htm
The number of D-Star repeaters is growing in other states. Here in Chattanooga there are two new D-Star machines that give good coverage in southeast TN and northwest Georgia.
BG..