I'm wondering if anyone has heard of this thing called the DV dongle. It can be found here: http://www.moetronix.com/dvdongle/
It's avaliable for purchase here: http://www.hamradio.com/ for $200. It seems that it's basically just an AMBE-2020 chip with USB controller that plugs into your PC and can allow you to decode AMBE (and presumably IMBE) using some provider driver software and code.
It's a cool idea considering that DVSI has pretty tight control on any software implementations of their codecs and thus far has made it impossible to really get much aside from some developer boards - no real end-user codec stuff. This appears to be a simple workaround that allows for coding and decoding with a PC.
It's aimed at D-Star but it mentions that it has other uses. I'm wondering how hard it might be to use this as the implementation for decoding things like Opensky, Provoice, P25 and even possibly stuff like inmarsat.
Considering most of these use standard modulation and just basic TDMA, it doesn't seem like it would be beyond the relm of possibility.
It's avaliable for purchase here: http://www.hamradio.com/ for $200. It seems that it's basically just an AMBE-2020 chip with USB controller that plugs into your PC and can allow you to decode AMBE (and presumably IMBE) using some provider driver software and code.
It's a cool idea considering that DVSI has pretty tight control on any software implementations of their codecs and thus far has made it impossible to really get much aside from some developer boards - no real end-user codec stuff. This appears to be a simple workaround that allows for coding and decoding with a PC.
It's aimed at D-Star but it mentions that it has other uses. I'm wondering how hard it might be to use this as the implementation for decoding things like Opensky, Provoice, P25 and even possibly stuff like inmarsat.
Considering most of these use standard modulation and just basic TDMA, it doesn't seem like it would be beyond the relm of possibility.