Previously, I maintained a dynamic list of active talkgroups, sortable by regions and more. Regrettably, Brandmeister’s adjustments to the API access made data retrieval trickier, and frankly, I lacked the time to troubleshoot. However, I managed to spare a bit of time and decided to reintroduce a simplified version featuring the top 100 active talkgroups. […]
Recently, I got my hands on an FT-991A, which I’ve been enjoying for 2m/70cm nets and similar activities. While experimenting, I stumbled upon a local repeater using Fusion technology. Intrigued, I decided to give it a try and considered using my hotspot for the connection. My existing setup featured an older MMDVM hotspot running on […]
An odd thing happened the other day while I was monitoring DMR nets. For some reason, I was getting no audio. Radio silence… I was perplexed as only a few short hours before, I was listening to all of the chatter on my Anytone D878UV. Keying up the radio showed activity on the Pi-Star, but […]
A new file has been uploaded to the File Downloads section. This is an ICS calendar file that contains all of the Brandmeister DMR Nets. You can use this file to import into Google Calendar, Outlook, etc. If you are importing to Google Calendar, I suggest that you create a new calendar, then import the […]
If you are a new DMR user, you may find that the transition from analog to digital is a bit confusing. Especially when programming talkgroups, channels, and zones. Hopefully, this post will help clear some of this up. In the analog world, we would simply program frequencies to a channel and that was the end […]
If you want to customize the boot screen on the 878, it’s quite simple to do with your favorite image editor. Create an image that is 160×128 pixels Save/Export it as a bitmap (.bmp) file Within the CPS software, select your COM port by clicking Set | Set COM Click Tool | Boot Image Click […]
Many people seem to be having issues connecting their MMDVM Hotspot directly to their iPhone WiFi Hotspot for network access. I fell into the same category. There are a few things that I had to do for it to work: First, the iPhone’s SSID (WiFi Network Name) should not have any special characters or spaces […]
A problem that we all have encountered from time-to-time in the analog world is that we double with other stations. While on a statewide DMR net, I encountered the same problem. This prompted me to look at my TX Permit settings on the 878. It turned out that I had it set to ‘Always.’ A […]
If you are traveling or the local DMR repeater goes down, it would be an excellent idea to have simplex channels programmed into your radio. There is a large misconception with DMR that if the repeater is inoperative or there is no connection to the internet, that DMR in itself is useless. That can not […]