Is The Future Of Digital Voice A Transceiver With A SIM Card Built Into It?

[JASII]

...You might want to pay attention to a Russian ham, Andrey RU3ANQ. A few years ago he had very interesting software defined radio receiver that did all the ham modes...

Is he the same one that posted some interesting things when he was bragging about how drunk he was?

 

[doctordialtone]

As I was talking with someone yesterday and thinking about Network Radios and Amateur Radio Hotspots,

A Transceiver With A SIM Card Built Into It?
That's like saying 15 years ago "A Transceiver with a floppy drive built in."

 

[kb9mwr]

For what its worth, I think hams need to get more involved, in development and in talking to the community about what they want. Else I wouldn't be surprised that the future just holds more digital fragmentation.

The JARL had the right idea years back, working towards the D-Star standard.