Like just about everything else in the 21st century, professional two-way radio is making the transition from analogue to digital. As well as potentially much clearer signals and more users in the same amount of spectrum, digital two-way radio offers many other advantages.
This article looks at going digital, digital co-existing with analog, next generation digital narrowband, internet connection, trunking systems, coding, decoding and scrambling and finally, easy programming.
Please click here to read the full article on digital two-way radio, written by Kevin Poulter for Icom Australia and featured in the October 2013 issue of Silicon Chip Magazine.