OpenGD77

G'Day Roger Thanks for checking with other amateurs. I can receive the VK4RAI DMR repeater at good signal strength, I could walk around the house with radio and had no dropouts during the VK7 broadcast this morning on TG5, and also heard many VK3's over the course of the day. The Brandmeister repeat...

G'Day Roger.
Just looking at the online status, It appears I must have been connected to the repeater, so it may be down to signal in to the repeater ??

Will keep trying things until i can get a solid connection..

Cheers
Peter VK4KHP

Good Morning Roger. This morning I had the radio sitting on the coffee table with it set to VK4RAI TG505, and i noticed that the RX LED was green. It was on TG5 and the a VK7 news broadcast was running. so I can receive fine, tried various antennas and good signal from all antennas. Now the TX, I am...

G'Day Roger. Many thanks for the reply. I will try, VK4RAI again, i did update the code plug, and have a different response. I can hit FM repeaters on the same site, so will try again from a different part of the house, if not I will try an external antenna. A lot of sites had VK4RTQ listed as runni...

G'Day Folks. Radio arrived and installed openGD77. a few mistakes on my side, and a bit of reading sorted them out the got it installed. I have it up and running, but appear to be just out of range of Amateur DMR repeaters, or they are off line. Playing around with it I have been listening to the Qu...

Many Thanks Roger.
That's impressive, looking forward to the radio arriving.
Cheers.
Peter VK4KHP

G'Day Roger. I managed to get a similar price on the 1701. GPS option is not a real concern, i haven't run APRS for maybe 12 or 13 years, for anything else, I can hopefully just enter the position. The satellite option, just wondering and I guess, not the place to ask, but does the satellite option ...

G'Day Folks. Been licenced since 1978, have dipped my toes into to most facets of the hobby over the years, Just purchased a Baofeng DM-1701 from Aliexpress, hopefully should see it by the end of next week. DMR is all new to me, well I have used some sdr radios and software to monitor some DMR netwo...