How to build packet radios using small, off the shelf devices, and some ingenuity. thus bypassing the stodgy, unimaginative, inflexible old HAMs that need everything to stay as it was.
Its bizarre to me hams are willing to widely adopt patented technology like the audio codec for DMR rather than design one around unrestrained processes
The official software program that does decoding and encoding of audio may or may not be floating around on the internet.
I am not going to get bent out of shape if I can use existing equipment and do everything I want with it.
Its the apple v.s. linux mentality. I have a guttoral aversion to the apple model.
zero sum game capitalism inherently leads to predatory behavior.
simple cooperative free markets do not.
who knows.. perhaps your shape could use some bending.
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