[HR360] Ham Radio: DMR with K1RJZ (Digital Mobile Radio)
 

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Ham Radio: DMR with K1RJZ (Digital Mobile Radio)

Posted: 31 May 2016 03:15 AM PDT
http://hamradio360.com/index.php/201...-mobile-radio/


Ive owned a DMR radio for about 6 months now.Â* Ive not made one contact
with it!Â* I even loaned it to a friend to see if he could unlock the magic,
no dice.

While at Dayton, I met Rick Zach K1RJZ at the DMR-MARC booth early one
morning and began asking questions about DMR.Â* I soon knew that I needed to
have Rick on the show to help demystify this new-fangled radio technology
and help get me on the air!
Rick Zach K1RJZ



DMR or Digital Mobile Radio is one of the hottest things happening in the
Ham Radio Hobby right now.Â* Commercial success of the mode has driven down
the prices and made it accessible to the Amateur Radio hobbyist.Â* Join us
to learn how this exciting mode is quickly becoming a game changer!



DMR-MARC is an all volunteer organization that has been tasked with keeping
DMR in order for the community.Â* If you are interested in getting on the
air with DMR, DMR-MARC should be one of your first stops!



“Â* Rick, K1RJZ got back to us with a mispronunciation that he’d like to
correct.Â* The multi format DMR networking platform is pronounced
BRANDmiester and not BANDmiester.Â* He knew the correct name, but it
just Â*needs a correction “


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Notes from Jeremy:

Tytera MD-380 Hacking: Â*https://github.com/travisgoodspeed/md380tools
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Things I wish I had known when programming the MD-380
This is a good primer to terms and
concepts: Â*http://dmr-marc.net/media/Amateur_Ra...I_20150510.pdf


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The radio has 16 channels but a LOT of Zones. Â*a Zone is a collection of
channels.

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Every Channel can have a scan list and a RX list.Â* The Scan List is a list
of channels that can be scanned if you tell the radio to scan while on that
channel useful if you want to scan both timeslots of the same repeater,
for instance.

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RXLists are lists of all of the talkgroups associated with a timeslot on
the repeater.Â* For instance, for my local K8BIG, I have two RXLists
KABIG-TS1 and K8BIG-TS2.Â* All groups that appear on Time Slot 1 are in TS1
and same for TS2.

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Worldwide, Worldwide English, and North America arent for rag chewing
think of these as calling channels.Â* Once contact is made, you can take
your conversation over to one of the tactical talkgroups such as TAC-310 or
TAC-311 (depending on whether or not your repeater has these talkgroups).Â*
These talkgroups are only active when someone calls for them via Push to
Talk.




Thanks for listening!

73 Yall

K4CDN

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