Showing posts with label Motorola MOTOTRBO XPR 7550 DMR. Show all posts
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Amateur Radio Explained Promotion Guide

Amateur Radio a hobby for the 21st century [ Amateur Radio Explained Promotion Guide ]

Amateur Radio (ham radio) is a popular hobby and service that brings people, electronics and communication together. People use ham radio to talk across town, around the world, or even into space, all without the Internet or cell phones. It's fun, social, educational, and can be a lifeline during times of need.

Although Amateur Radio operators get involved for many reasons, they all have in common a basic knowledge of radio technology and operating principles, and pass an examination for the country license to operate on radio frequencies known as the "Amateur Bands." These bands are radio frequencies allocated by the country for use by ham radio operators.

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How do I get an amateur radio license

Sending text messages between Hytera and Motorola

DMR Sending text messages between Hytera and Motorola radios - Exploring DMR

Sending text messages between Hytera and Motorola

One of the first things you may notice when playing with different DMR radios of different brands is their inability to exchange text messages, in most part this is because the most high end manufacturers like Motorola and Hytera use their own format for sending data over the air, this has always been the case since DMR radios started appearing on the market however things are starting to change... In the latest Motorola CPS (version 11 upwards) there is a setting for each digital channel that allows you to select if you want Motorola format text messaging or DMR standard. To use this feature you need to make sure the radio itself is running the latest firmware. You need to also set the UDP data type to DMR Standard, this checkbox is above the text message type drop down box. For Hytera radios to exchange data using the DMR standard and not Hytera's own format you need to first update your firmware and CPS to the latest version and then in the CPS from the conventional - digital common - basic menu scroll down to the bottom to miscellaneous - data bearer service and change the setting to DMR Standard. After updating the firmware and cps for both radios you will need to read back the code plug from the radio into the CPS and save it as a new code plug. Also please note that changing these settings allows cross communication of data between radios in simplex mode, for repeaters it will probably be a different story. If you are on a Hytera network and use repeaters then I don't recommend changing the data bearer service as it will likely prevent text messaging between other Hytera radios and break things like GPS and forwarding to APRS.

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DMR membership by country - Mototrbo DMR Growth Trend

Mototrbo DMR Growth Trend :
AN INTERESTING BREAKDOWN OF DMR MEMBERSHIP BY COUNTRY

18,418 DMR Contacts UNITED STATES
1,275 DMR Contacts CANADA
Total WORLD number of IDs = 41,826

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An interesting breakdown of DMR membership by country

http://dmrnetwork.blogspot.ca/2015/10/dmr-membership-by-country-mototrbo-dmr.html


How to Update MotoTrbo Contact List

How to Update MotoTrbo Contact List
How to update your contact list (Motorola)

What is Contacts List
It seems there is a little bit of confusion surrounding callsigns not being displayed in the radio’s screen.. here’s a quick ‘how to’ that may help. As for callsigns on the various monitoring websites, don’t worry too much about that for now, because DMR-MARC is doing some big changes to the network, so please be patient.

First thing you should know is that your radio is doing the job of translating the DMR-ID of the person currently transmitting to you, into a callsign and name for your rig’s display. The information to do this is completely held in a database in the radio, and it’s a very simple job to update it.

As more users are coming onto DMR-MARC you may want to update the contact list regularly. The radio can store a maximum of 1000 contacts, so when there are more than 1000 DMR-MARC IDs in the Canada or your region – you will have to delete some,  at the time of writing this article there are about 900 in Canada.