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R A R A Academy on DMR 05/02/2020 Rochester Amateur Radio Association, Inc. DMR - Part 2 of 3 May 2, 2020 Part 1 - Mike Moore KC2NM Part 2 - Rich Hoffarth K2AXP Part 3 - Steve Verzulli KA1CNF http://rochesterham.org 1 Introduction


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Rochester Amateur Radio Association, Inc.

DMR - Part 2 of 3

May 2, 2020

Part 1 - Mike Moore KC2NM Part 2 - Rich Hoffarth K2AXP Part 3 - Steve Verzulli KA1CNF http://rochesterham.org

Introduction

  • DSTAR
  • DMR
  • System Fusion (YSF)

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Rich K2AXP

 Sep 2018 Tech, Nov 2018 Gen  Anytone AT-D868UV  Clarkson University – ECE  Computer Programmer

Heathkit EK-2 Zenith

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DMR

 Network – Structure, Talkgroups, Brandmeister site  Link – Repeaters & Hotspots  Radios = Hardware + Firmware + Codeplug  Operations

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DMR History

 Digital Mobile Radio - 2005  Commercial Background  12.5 Khz  2 time slots TDMA  DMR-MARC - Brandmeister

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Network

Link

Repeaters Hotspots

Network

Servers

Radios

Primary Parameters Radio Id, Talkgroup Id, Tx, Rx, Color Code, Time Slot Channel, Zone, Scan Lists Receive Group

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DMR Networks

 Brandmeister  DMR-MARC, DMR-Plus  Rocky Mountain Ham Radio - CO  DMR of Anarchy - NoCal  Papa - SoCal

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DMR-MARC vs Brandmeister

 First in US 2009  Use C-Bridge  Repeaters set TGs  DMR+ connects

hotspots

 Network Hierarchy

 2015  More popular  Master Server  All* TG available  More open (hotspots)  Passes all traffic

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Connections

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BM Talkgroups

What is a Talkgroup??? Country, state, regional talkgroups Topic talkgroups Language talkgroups US Regional talkgroups are all assigned.

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BM Talkgroup Structure

1 – Test networks 2 – Europe 3 – North America 4 – Asia and Middle East 5 – Oceania 6 – Africa 7 – South/Central America 9 – World-wide 3 Digit Country Code

208 – France 235 – UK 262 – Germany 310-319 – US 440 – Japan 602 – Egypt 724 – Brazil

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DMR Identifiers

# Digits Identifier Range 1 Very Special Talkgroups 9 2 Special Talkgroups 90 3 Country Talkgroups 900 4 State Talkgroups 99 for US 5 Region Talkgroups 10 per state for US 6 Repeater Ids 900,000 7 Radio Ids 9,000,000

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Radio IDs by Country

Country IDs

United States 72,682 Canada 4,426 China 3,272 Australia 2,727 Brazil 2,440 Chile 1,319 Japan 1,281

Total Countries: 99 Total Ids used: 97,148

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Radio IDs by State

State IDs

California 7,643 Florida 4,838 Texas 4,664 Ohio 3,559 New York 3,205 North Carolina 3,088 Colorado 2,542

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Brandmeister Websites

 Dashboard - brandmeister.network  Hoseline  News - news.brandmeister.network  Wiki - wiki.brandmeister.network

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Link Overview

 Repeaters  Hotspots  Phone Apps  Simplex

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Link - Repeaters

 Static vs Dynamic Talkgroups  Local Talkgroups  Use TG10-90  Use Repeater Id  Owner sets TS rules for TGs  BM Dashboard Repeaters

Analog Digital Rx, Tx Rx, Tx CTCSS Color Code Time Slot Talkgroup

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Link - Hotspots

 Time slot – Use TS1, TS2 or both!  No color code – use CC:1  Talkgroups static and dynamic  Only one static talkgroup

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Link – Phone Apps

Search on Brandmeister DMR BrandMeister repeaters DMR BrandMeister Device Manager DMR BrandMeister Tool

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Link – Digital Simplex

 Promiscuous Mode  CC:1, TS1, Talkgroup 99 –

DIRECT (DMR_MARC)

 ALL CALL (16777215)

VHF UHF 145.790 441.000 145.510 443.450 446.500 446.075

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Radios

DMR Radio = Hardware + Firmware + Codeplug

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DMR Radio Manufacturers

 Anytone – AT-D868UV, AT-D878UV PLUS  Hytera  Tytera - MD-380  Alinco  Motorola  Baofeng

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Programming Tools

 CPS  Contact Manager – N0GSG  Edit CP  CPS Programmer by DL5MCC

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CPS - DMR Programer

 Demo  Read codeplug  Export csv files

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DMR Terms

Radio CPS Csv Files Channel Channels Channels.csv Zone Zones Zones.csv Scanning Scan Lists ScanList.csv Receive Groups ReceiveGroupCallList.csv FM Broadcast FM Stations FM.csv Menu - Settings Options Menu - Talkgroups Talkgroup Talkgroups.csv Digital Contacts DigitalContactList.csv

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Other Radio Features

 VFO  Dual Band  Promiscuous mode  Auto Power Off  GPS  Digital APRS  Roaming  Bluetooth

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Codeplugs

 Radio configuration  Websites provide codeplugs  Analyzer – reads csv files  Analyzer output

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Codeplug Analyzer

 Analog Repeaters  Analog Simplex Freq  Digital Repeaters  Digital Hotspots  Digital Simplex Freq

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Entity Relationships

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CPS Lookup

 Radio Id – https://www.radioid.net/  Talkgroups – https://api.brandmeister.network/v1.0/groups/  Digital Contacts – https://www.radioid.net/  Repeaters – https://www.rochesterham.org/learn_links.htm

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Call Types

 Group Call  Private Call – not really used  All Call – Special talkgroup 16777215

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Programming Order

1) Create Talkgroups 2) Create a Channel 3) Create Scan lists, add one channel 4) Create Receive group, add channel 5) Create channels, add TG, scan list, receive group 6) Create zone, add channels 7) Update Scan lists 8) Update Receive groups

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CPS Programming

 Options  Talkgroups  Channels  Zones  Scan Lists  Receive Groups

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CPS Strategy

 Zones  Channels  Digital Contacts  Scan Lists  Receive Groups  Talkgroups

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Rochester Repeaters

Call Rx, -Offset CC TS1 TS2 W2RIT 442.075, +5 1 310582 KD2FRD 443.600, +5 1 Monroe County only No TAC or WW TG’s N2MKT 442.250, +5 1

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Parrot - Echo Test

 9990 – Private Call  310997 – Private Call  31000 – Group Call  Some hotspots provide other features (9998)

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Operations

 Parrot  Repeater  Hotspot  Simplex  Announce

talkgroup

 Reflectors  Local Talkgroups

 Monroe County 31369  WNYFLDMR - 310799

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Digital Nets

 Friday 9:30 PM ET Colorado HD net - 31088  Sunday 7:30 PM ET Monroe County – 31369 (after

RocCity analog)

 Sunday 8:00 PM ET WNYFLDMR – 310799  http://www.k6bkd.org/dmr-nets/  http://hamnetlist.blogspot.com/2017/04/dmr-nets.html

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Useful Links 1

https://www.dmrfordummies.com/brandmeister-network/ https://amateurradionotes.com/ https://amateurradionotes.com/dmr.htm#dmrsimplex http://hellaszone.com/index.php/hellaszone/all-categories/12-technology/481-repeater- reader https://padmr.net/ https://www.farnsworth.org/dale/codeplug/editcp/ https://github.com/DaleFarnsworth/codeplug/tree/master/editcp http://dl5mcc.de/cpsprogrammer/ http://n0gsg.com/contact-manager/

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Useful Links 2

https://brandmeister.network/ https://news.brandmeister.network/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXNHQaXyBDQ - Radioddity GD-77 DMR Amateur Radio programming for Brandmeister http://papasys.com/dmr/resources/DATA/docs/BrandMeisterGettingStartedGuide.pdf https://news.brandmeister.network/using-correctly-formatted-user-mcc-id-on- brandmeister/ https://tapr.org/pdf/DCC2018-KC5HWB-UnderstandingDMR-Networks.pdf http://papasys.com/attachments/DMR_CodePlug-101_AnyTone_20190203.pdf https://www.rmham.org/dmr-network/ http://www.wnydmr.network/network/

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