Icom's ID-800 is shipping in March. This transceiver is a variant of the IC-208 and includes the UT-118 digital voice/data board bundled.
The unit includes single band 146 or 440 operation with the following emission types:
20K0F3E
11K0F3E
11K0F7W
The perceptual coder is AMBE for the 11K0F7W emission and the CAI includes a ~1KB slow speed data stream interleaved with the voice frames.
This CAI could be used as an extended variant of APRS through DStar repeaters transparently during digital voice transmissions.
No pricing yet but I am guessing that the ID-800/UT-118 bundle will come in at the $600 range.
This would be really cool if a position reporting/chat/info client were written to take advantage of the slow speed data and interconnect to a local laptop/PDA as a new amateur MDT format.
kv5e
ID-800 Shipping in March
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ID-800 Shipping in March
WILSON WILSON, GREEN, WE HAVE RAWHIDE ARRIVAL, NO PRESS, NO PROTESTORS
According to this page > http://www.icom.co.jp/products/ham/id-800/ - its almost 800$ in Japan :(.
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How about Mic-E? (http://www.tapr.org/tapr/html/Fmic-e.html)
The WW7RA repeater listens for Mic-E bursts and retransmits them on the APES VHF freq.
The WW7RA repeater listens for Mic-E bursts and retransmits them on the APES VHF freq.
As mobile GPS/APRS continues to grow, we can eliminate the need for every mobile to have a TNC, digital radio, and second antenna by simply integrating the position report into a very brief tone burst at the end of a voice transmission over any two-way radio. The APRS Mic-E is this solution. With the Mic-E, no additional hardware is required in the vehicle, other than a GPS unit. The system not only reports position and vehicle type, but also one of 7 canned messages and 4 analog telemetry values.