Subj : ???
To   : Richard Menedetter
From : Bob Seaborn
Date : Thu Jan 07 2016 03:57 pm

> Hello, Bob!
>
> 07 Jan 16 10:05, from Bob Seaborn -> Holger Granholm:
>
>BS>       Well, I do also have a fusion and a dmr rig, but don't play with
>BS> them all that much.  I do much prefer the audo quality of D-STAR.
>
> Really??


     Yes, absolutely! I do have rigs for all three, and fusion is close to
D-STAR, but I'd say that dmr has a way to go.  Mind you, I'm using them all
with a DV4Mini, as we only have D-STAR and fusion repeaters within range here.


>
> D-Star uses the older AMBE vocoder while DMR and Fusion use AMBE+2.
> Fusion can also use more Bandwidth for the Vocoder compared to D-Star
> and DMR.
>
> So D-Star should sound clearly worse than any other of the mentioned
> techniques.
> It should also be much more affected by the R2D2 effect (bad audio when
> you have high bit error rates).
>
> Than again I only have DMR and FM, so I cannot really compare.
>







                      .....Bob, VE5XEF


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