Digital voice (DV) systems in amateur radio have become increasingly popular. NW Digital Radio's current ThumbDV is popular for those using programs which allow them to connect to various DV networks, including reflectors, chat, and repeater systems worldwide.

Although all of the major DV systems use some form of AMBE for vocoding, they are incompatible at the protocol level. Recently hams have started using pairs of ThumbDVs to perform transcoding and reunite the disparate DV systems.

The purpose of this project is to take a proven open design for a six channel AMBE Vocoder successfully developed by the team behind the XLX reflector system and bring it to production levels to lower the cost per stream for server applications.

Here's a price comparison:

NW Digital Radio ThumbDV: $120/stream

NW Digital Radio XCode-3006: $480 msrp $80/Stream



*** Kickstarter Incentive: $400 it is just $67/stream !

*** If you get in early, it is $360 or $60/stream!

† Some USB based AMBE products are up to $299/stream!

At NW Digital Radio, we are committed to projects which enhance amateur radio and created this Kickstarter to make hardware available for projects such as the XLX multi-protocol reflector system.



Will you join us to make these DV projects a reality through professionally built hardware?



A discussion and peer support group is available at https://nw-digital-radio.groups.io/g/ambe