Mixed Signals from Yaesu
This just in from the Things That Make You Go Hmmm Department: the amateur radio portion of Yaesu splits from Mother Motorola while the land mobile portion stays. This is right on top of an announcement that Yaesu will pursue a digital amateur radio offering based on land mobile technology (i.e., definitely not D-STAR).
The K0KDS blog has a post about the split, so go there for the full story. The ARRL has this news item about the organizational change. Here’s the paper that Yaesu published about their move into digital technology for amateur radio.
73, Bob K0NR
Appears to be DMR based off of the vertex foray into DMR last year in conjunction with motorola. Interestingly they show a TRBO (DMR) repeater sans label in their brochure. Could be interesting as the sample radio they show is the vx8gr with some cosmetic differences. wonder if IP site connect WIRES and trunking would be enabled features that could lead to some very interesting capabilities.
Elliot
31 Dec 11 at 11:45 pm