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The product was created by Americans to give amateur radio operators a low cost entry into the world of APRS.

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Thank you for taking the time to explain this further. SMS would be great if it can work across multiple brand radios. But then again if OPEN GD77 has large enough following maybe only amongst users would work too?

I found a small part in the ETSI technical spec that states the following on SMS encoding: https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_ts/102300_102399/10236103/01.02.01_60/ts_10236103v010201p.pdf Page 35 ETSI ETSI TS 102 361-3 V1.2.1 (2013-07)355.7.1 Text Messaging Text messaging shall utilize UTF-16BE [15] ...

Per SMS this would follow the DMR standard and not a Radioddity, Motorola or Hytera proprietary standard correct?

BINGO! Before checking the setting I quickly Googled the term "DMR EmbeddedLCOnly" and learned the following: DMR EmbeddedLCOnly (Embedded Link Control Only) option – The default is off. Turning it on disables the Talker Alias data ... That gave me hope and seeing that mine was on all I had to do wa...

Well Pi-Star is set to use the BM server.

I have been trying for a couple months now to get TA working on my Open GD-77 to no avail. MY settings in pi-star appear to be correct but would welcome any further suggestions so I can finally start to see call signs.

Thank you!

K9JPT

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