Hello.
Now that they have merged,,,,.
I have assembled several P-25 adapters, both for receivers as well as transceivers.
This is always the TI chipset, retasked for this service.
Several have said that this is not an option as the chipset is too expensive.
There was also question as to how I was able to get samples.
The answer to both questions is simple, XM.
Yes, the satellite service, XM, uses the AMBE codec.
I was very easily able to get a sample chipset by asking someone who was producing RF designs.
Since there are license issues I have never offered the basic design, but it is a very simple matter to reverse engineer this.
This was placed on demonstration at the hamfest in Temple as well as San Antonio.
It was designed and built for the purpose of allowing members of CAP to adapt member owned radios to P-25 and for no other use.
Look at how XM works, they actually use a dual mode AMBE chipset, it can easily be reconfigured for full duplex operation.
And, data rate is set dynamically, it is a software instruction.
Due to the fact that some ham had called up DVSI and had said all sorts of chit, around the time I was in "negotiations" with Motorola, I make it a point to pretty much stay very clean in this matter.
But, extract the data and audio chain and configure the chip, feed it P-25, and see what you find. 8)