"Rob" wrote in message
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Brian Morrison wrote:
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:22:03 +0100
"Brian Reay" wrote:

Oh dear Rob, you must be new here! While what you say is, of course,
correct it isn't accepted by bigots.

I think you'll find that the only bigots involved here are the sort
that believe that amateur radio should encourage the use of closed
technology.

I think we should not encourage the use of closed technology, and I
think many agree with that.

But I also think we should not discourage developments (in the case of
D-STAR the development of a digital radio system) because in critical
places in the system open technology does not exist, and development
of such open technology is impractical.


Except digital voice doesn't work on noisy channels, which makes it pretty
useless for _REAL radio amateurs unless someone is going to stick repeaters
up every half mile. - that's gonna mean a lot of money to ICOM in my book
even if there was enough fools to fund it.