#ALINCO DMR PROGRAMMING UPGRADE#

I don't think he understood what I meant.

My response was, 'Yea, it'll sound like DMR' LOL. I had to laugh at the Kenwood rep at Dayton when he told me, 'this radio will have an AMBE+2 chip so it will be the best sounding DSTAR rig you have ever heard'. The audio on Fusion sounds as good as DMR because they both use the AMBE+2 vocoder chip, which the new Kenwood DSTAR radio will also have. Fusion came along and tried to merge analog and digital, which seems counterproductive to me. I've been an avid DMR user since late 2013. But Kenwood, Icom and Yaesu all still make analog radios and they are the high-volume sellers. But again, they aren't as big as others in analog either. So they are in the digital market, though not as big as others. Alinco actually makes a DMR and also a NEXEDGE radio. Still today, more analog radios are sold than digital radios. I've already started recording a video about the radio and HRI box, so I have it hooked up and running currently, it is connected to a Room here for Texas users.

I tinkered with it some, and I did an unboxing video along with some audio tests and QSO with another ham in my Episode 12. I actually have a FTM-100 with an HRI-200 box setup at my house right now. If you do that, you can connect with my Node at KQ4BX, or you can join our group in the N2HUC room to get started. Jason, get the FTM-100, and a FT-2D, and a HRI-200, set it all up and get familiar with it, and then tell your viewers all about it. I am putting my Icom 7100 on ebay this week, I will only keep the 5100 in the mobile, right next to my FTM-100D You should not dislike Fusion until you know as much about it as I do. As a matter of fact, the radio senses what you receive, and it will change your transmission to match what you receive. If anyone wants to get a taste of Fusion, get the FTM-100D, it is a fantastic mobile with a beautiful display, built-in GPS, and it can be used as a standard mobile, just like Alinco, but you can also switch into Fusion. Had they produced a cheaper, yet well made Fusion radio, they would hagve sold way more of them than they will now. You can love Alinco all you want, but their new radio is lacking in this one very important mode. I don't key up repeaters all over the world to do this, so Fusion WiresX is a very energy efficient mode. I can see who is on what node before I connect. I can connect to a WiresX room in any part of the country, or world. I meet with 5 to 10 hams that all connect to that room to talk ham radio. Long before I had my own Fusion Room, and WiresX node at my home QTH, I used a friends WiresX node at his QTH. Fusion is growing under your nose, it is because Fusion does not require a repeater to be routed all over the world.

#ALINCO DMR PROGRAMMING UPGRADE#

Dstar could have been better if Icom, would have bitten the bullet and released an upgrade to Dstar to put in in the league of Fusion, and DMR for audio quality and error correction. Fusion has superior audio, and error correction than Dstar. Hams should know that Dstar has one one advantage, and it is slowly going to lose that advantage to Fusion. Kenwood, while taking a stand in Dstar, at least they took a stand, and produced a new and exciting Dstar radio, taking Dstar into 220 before anyone else. We have done extensive tests between FM and Fusion, and Fusion was the hands down winner of having fantastic audio when RF signals got too low for FM to be useful. All the best Fusion is happening in simplex. The radio that opened my eyes to what digital radio should be, is Fusion and WiresX. In any case, Alinco chose to sit the future out and remain insignificant in the realm of radio technology.ДЄnyone who thinks that digital radio is a fad and that it will go away, is very wrong. I have been a Dstar user for a very long time, but now I have seen the light. Why would Alinco want to stay in the back ground of the radio market by not taking a stand in the digital radio area.

Now lets just step into the future, which is now. Yes, the radio worked well, and I had no complaints. Alinco? That was one of the first radio's I bought as a new ham back in the 80's.

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