As of late digital voice modes have caught my intrest and I was wanting to experiment with some digital stuff. D-star is a promising piece of tech and I like what it offers, but with ICOM keeping it propritary and the expense I thought I might look at a few other things as well. P25 is appealing as well and the 1st generation of stuff is begining to find it's way to market at decent prices. DMR looks like it would be entertaining as well but cosidering that the commerical gear available for this at present being just as costly as D-star I'm really on the fence with that.
In terms of what is around me locally the repeaters are still largely analog. So much so that I only have one D-star and one DMR repeater local to me. Thus those two technolgies have the most appeal to me.
With all that being said what are the communities thoughts on these technolgies and there implimentation in amateur radio. Also in terms of gear is there a good source of information of commerical radio mods?
In terms of what is around me locally the repeaters are still largely analog. So much so that I only have one D-star and one DMR repeater local to me. Thus those two technolgies have the most appeal to me.
With all that being said what are the communities thoughts on these technolgies and there implimentation in amateur radio. Also in terms of gear is there a good source of information of commerical radio mods?