Greetings from KV0A Colbert, GA, USA

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Greetings from KV0A Colbert, GA, USA

Post by KV0A » Fri Dec 20, 2019 8:20 am

Greetings from the massive metropolis of Colbert, GA!

Ok, so I decided to tinker with DMR and bought this GD-77 on sale. Seems decent considering that I paid something like US$66.50 for it new.

Then I find out about this OpenGD77 firmware and I start thinking:

- Maybe I can do something with this.
- Hey, I know some embedded software development maybe I can help with that.
- Looks like these guys could use a "marketing" type web site with some install and getting started docs. i could help with that.

In short, I haven't installed this yet but I'm willing to help. (Still looking around to find the getting started info.)

BTW, links to software in the FAQ on the forum are broken links.

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Re: Greetings from KV0A Colbert, GA, USA

Post by W0RMT » Fri Dec 20, 2019 12:49 pm

Welcome! What is your amateur callsign?

I'll work on updating the links in the FAQ- thanks for the heads up!

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Re: Greetings from KV0A Colbert, GA, USA

Post by KV0A » Sun Dec 22, 2019 5:51 am

KV0A (K V zero A) is my callsign.

Where is the best place to post development-related questions?

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Re: Greetings from KV0A Colbert, GA, USA

Post by W0RMT » Tue Dec 24, 2019 1:04 pm

SparkyWirez wrote:
Sun Dec 22, 2019 5:51 am
KV0A (K V zero A) is my callsign.

Where is the best place to post development-related questions?
Depends in the topic, but probably in feature requests, bug reports, etc. Search for topics of interest to see where similar stuff is posted. We can always move a post to another category if need be.

What did you have in mind?

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Re: Greetings from KV0A Colbert, GA, USA

Post by KV0A » Tue Dec 24, 2019 3:05 pm

I'm willing to contribute... help fix bugs etc. I'm kind of a novice at embedded but I've done a tiny bit of ARM STM32. But I didn't see a CONTRIBUTING file so I'm not sure where to start.

Other stuff I know how to do:

- I could create a gitpages web site. I know Jekyll and Bootstrap. once created the site would be easy for people to update.
- I'm familiar with gituhb actions for CI purposes. Here's some github CI I just set up https://github.com/joelday/papyrus-lang/actions (I also know how to create custom github actions)
- I'm willing to write up a CONTRIBUTING.md file once I know what needs to go in it (build/debug info, DMR spec info, etc.)

Is there a development chat on something like IRC, discord, or slack? I also know how to set that stuff up.

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