Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Any Japanese speakers out there?

[Matt Ettus]

n4hy wrote:

> That will be extremely difficult as the English AMBE specifications 
> are proprietary and
> undisclosed unless something has changed.  Reverse engineering with be 
> legally discouraged
> I would imagine.
>
> The specifications from ICOM for the rest of the system are open.  So 
> you will able to send
> (say) SPEEX encoded speech (hoorah for SPEEX) along the D-Star system 
> but be unable
> to communicate with their end users doing AMBE.
>
> I got this directly from the Icom person promoting the D Star system 
> at Dayton 2004 in the
> technology forum.


AMBE is proprietary, but DStars can also carry GSM encoded voice as well 
as data. 

Matt