History of DMR, Hotspots, etc.

1. HOTSPOTS vs DV HOTSPOTS
By Dale Finley KB5NFT kb5nft@gmail.com 214-244-2100
“IT’s not the Destination, It’s the Journey”

2. How It Works
Nodes, Rooms, Groups, Reflectors, TalkGroups, Bridges, Transcode, FCS, YSF, Pi-Star, DCS,
XLF, XRF, DVMega, MMDVM, BrandMeister, DMR-MARC, IPSC2, TGIF, QRM, Dashboards,
HBHubnet, ircDDB Network, DVAP, DVDongle, Bridging between Allstar to DMR with full
control, TDMA,

3. • “The Road to the MMDVM” by Jonathan Nalor, G4KLX…
Pacificon 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbJZkW3ZGms
• “Pi-Star Digital Voice Software” by Andy Taylor,
MW0MWZ, https://www.pistar.uk/
• Guss PE1PLM
https://microhams.blob.core.windows.net/content/2018
/03/MHDC2018-PE1PLM.pdf
• “Jason Johnston” KC5HWB TAPR DCC 2018
• Yaesu Wires-X (Part 1) by John Kruk N9UPC
• “Peanut”, “BlueDV”, “AMBE”, “AMBE Server”,
“Treehouse” by David Palin, PA7LIM
http://www.pa7lim.nl/
History (1)

4. • D-Star InfoCon 2016 by John Davis, WB4QDX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR9oTNlvzeI
• OpenSpot3 by Jason Johnston KC5HWB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8bp5q1K-
MU
• Overview by Brian Young, KA9QJT From A to Z
Soup to Nuts
https://www.rarsfest.org/Documents/Intro%20to
%20D-
Star%20DMR%20and%20YSF%20Voice%20Mode
%20Technology%20-%20KA9QJT%20-
%20042019.pdf
History (2)

5. ??? Questions to Ask ???
• What is a Hotspot vs DV Hotspot?
• Can I use my “Phone/Tablet’s” Hotspot
• Is my phone Hotspot now a gateway/router?
• What is DVMega vs MMDVM?
• Do you already have a Digital Radio?
---> DMR, Dstar, Fusion <---
• Why not just use a Repeater?
• What if I travel about in my car/RV?
• Is the internet required?
• Do I want to tinker or just buy a plug-n-play?
• What is a “Radio Less” Digital Radio?

7. In Dstar you do NOT need
to ID, It is embeded
Dstar
C4FM is similar
but different

8. Voice Samples
(http://www.w2sjw.com/radio_sounds.html)
• DMR
http://www.w2sjw.com/sounds/DMR_Decode
d.mp3
• Dstar and FM
http://www.w2sjw.com/sounds/Weak%20Signal
%20D-STAR.mp3
• C4FM
http://www.w2sjw.com/sounds/Yaesu_Fusion_D
ecoded.mp3

9. Today’s DV MEGA with RPi

13. OpenSpot by SharkRF
249.00 Euro

14. Peanut (RadioLess)

17. DMR Networks

18. DMR Network Systems
As per DMRTexas.net
• CBridge 2.0 – Corsicana, Dallas, Denton,
Farmersville, Grandbury, Haslet, Hillsboro, Howe,
Lewisville, Richland Hills, Richardson, Weatherford
• Brandmeister – Dallas, Garland, Haslet, McKinney,
• Lonestar – Anna, Aubrey, Carrollton, Dallas,
Grapevine, Rosston
• DilloDMR – Arlington, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Palo Pinto,
Springtown (Quasi closed system)
• K4USD - Fairview
• ChicagoLand - Hurst

20. Dashboards
• https://www.radioid.net/map#!
• https://brandmeister.network/
• http://tgif.network/
• http://qrm.kc3ol.net/
• https://nj6n.com/dplusmon/
• http://dstarinfo.com/
• https://dstarusers.org/
• http://peanut.pa7lim.nl/
• http://155.138.244.37/ipsc/index.html
• http://hb.superfreqdigital.com:8080/

22. End of Part 1
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