Subj : Re: Silence To : JIMMY ANDERSON From : Tony Langdon Date : Sat Apr 15 2017 06:38 pm -=> JIMMY ANDERSON wrote to TONY LANGDON <=- TL> There are some good homebrew options, but you will need to spend on an TL> AMBE vocoder, which route you choose (buying a D-STAR radio means the TL> vocoder is built in). JA> Is that expensive? There's a few devices that have the vocoder in a useable form - the DV Dongle, the DV-RPTR board (AMBE was an option in earlier model, think built in later on), there's also another one or two devices that I can't recall the name of. Cost is typically between $100 and $200, depending which device you buy. JA> And I have access to obsolete computer equipment. I wish there was JA> something I could put together from an old PC - use it to build JA> a radio, or use it to connect an HT or something. :-) I prefer to use the Raspberry Pi these days. Old computers are too expensive to run. :) .... And now to the weather. Its zero outside. No temperature at all. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.49 * Origin: Freeway BBS - freeway.apana.org.au (3:633/410) .