--- In D-STAR_23cm@..., "Woodrick, Ed" <ewoodrick@...> wrote:
The ID-1 was sold without the control head at one point. No one bought them so they evidently went back to including it.
For the price to go down, they need to sell a lot more. I doubt if you'll see it going under the $300 mark anytime soon, the other radios will have to get there first.
We position the ID-1 as a club owned asset- you have a few of them and you use them with your repeater(s). We have about 15 up here various places, mostly installed in emergency vans and EOCs. DD Mode for us so far seems to be absolutely perfect for large scale, real world public service and a little boring and limited vs. the Internet for individual hamshack use.
The cost issue is all about sales volume and parts order sizes. I think they are repeater frequency constrained in Japan so use this band a fair amount.
