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No doubt part of it was trying to "have it all". They wanted radios that could act as VSAT terminals (for field to base comms), data terminals (for which P25 is
by elithrar 11y ago
No doubt part of it was trying to "have it all". They wanted radios that could act as VSAT terminals (for field to base comms), data terminals (for which P25 is poorly suited) and for operational voice with fallback (UHF, VHF, HF).
Otherwise yes, you can buy (today) hardened P25 handsets with IP66+ rated fist microphones and all that.
(my opinion is that the project was madness on a hardware level: all of those filters and FPGAs were competing with size, battery life, cost and complexity)
- Aloha 11y agoOh agreed - and P25 can do packet data sorta anyhow, as you said, not well suited to integration with the existing military radio systems. I think the P25 datastream however is a useful construct to build a larger radio system around however. They wanted it all, and got nothing, the usual ending when you try to build something around a "grand unified model" there is always an edge case.