Hillbilly Heaven
Explorer
Time to do some mobile radio upgrading.
I am going to replace my old and tired FT-100 HF rig with an FT-991A so this now gives me Fusion. I currently only operate analog FM. So now the question is do I want to go with DStar or DMR?
Currently there are no DMR Dual Band Mobile radios. There are commercial DMR radios, but those are usually channelized and limited to one band. Dual band radio is important to me as sometimes I run an APRS tracker. Typically on a dual band radio I will run it Vhf/Vhf when using APRS. Given my needs it looks like I should go with an Icom ID-5100ADLX and that will give me DStar capabilities.
Until technology progresses enough to give us a dual band multi mode mobile radio the only option to make use of all modes is to run a stack of radios. I have no interest in doing that.
I may not be aware of every device or radio out there. I know there are some prototypes in development. Does anyone else know of a device or radio that might give me Dstar and DMR without an internet connection? Have no interest in HTs.
I am going to replace my old and tired FT-100 HF rig with an FT-991A so this now gives me Fusion. I currently only operate analog FM. So now the question is do I want to go with DStar or DMR?
Currently there are no DMR Dual Band Mobile radios. There are commercial DMR radios, but those are usually channelized and limited to one band. Dual band radio is important to me as sometimes I run an APRS tracker. Typically on a dual band radio I will run it Vhf/Vhf when using APRS. Given my needs it looks like I should go with an Icom ID-5100ADLX and that will give me DStar capabilities.
Until technology progresses enough to give us a dual band multi mode mobile radio the only option to make use of all modes is to run a stack of radios. I have no interest in doing that.
I may not be aware of every device or radio out there. I know there are some prototypes in development. Does anyone else know of a device or radio that might give me Dstar and DMR without an internet connection? Have no interest in HTs.