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dPMR vocoder choices?

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The dPMR folks have approved both AMBE+2 and RALCWI vocoders but all the radios I have seen that mention what vocoder they use are using AMBE+2. Has anyone seen anything about any other vocoders? If so, what brands and models? Surely CML won't let themselves get shut out of the market. Could be that AMBE+2 has such a head start that no one wants to build a radio using anything else for fear they won't talk to everything else out there.
 

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There are other radios using different vocoders. Particularly the chinese radios, like the Kirisun S780 and the Zastone ST-9908. They have some different vocoder options. One of the Zastone's vocoders (there are 3, software selectable) is called AMBE+2C, but I have heard that this is not the actual AMBE vocoder, its a chinese rip off that won't work with it.
There is some good info on this blog post, if you look a bit further down the article:
Radiosification: Kirisun S780 information on vocoder and standard
 
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