Brian Reay wrote:
I don't have an axe to grind here, I'm not in the business nor pro or
anti either DSTAR or DMR (I do have a DMR radio). I'm just trying to
understand where things are going.

Me neither. I am not QRV on any of the digital voice modes, as I consider
the voice quality of the typical codecs too low.

However, when looking at the state of the network here it is clear that
the initial deployment was on D-Star but it has largely been overtaken
by DMR. Especially now that free software is available to run the network
and there is no dependence on MARC and its policies anymore.

Fusion is a failure. Yaesu has failed to provide usable firmware for
the first repeater, and "to fix that" they have released new hardware,
essentially leaving those that bought the original kit in the cold.

As a result, people are now ripping out the controller hardware and
converting them to plain voice repeaters using a working controller.