DMR being a commercial communication system, a modified TYT MD-380 can be used for your ham radio DMR communications and monitoring commercial or public service DMR systems. I have no need for such, but it's nice to be compatible with these commercial and governmental services. Although a cheap $100 ChiCom radio, this ability for the hacker community to develop new features is why I chose the TYT MD-380.
I have another DMR radio (GD-55) that is not TDMA compatible, so can't be used on repeaters, but can be used with my Openspot hotspot. Unfortunately there's no mods for it. I'd like to be able to tune the power down to 100mw like I've done with the low power setting on my MD-380.
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Scanning a 4 channel Capacity Plus system with a MD-380. This was with the experimental software that allows the radio to listen to any DMR traffic heard. I have set up one channel as a scan channel.
This firmware allows the radio to pick up DMR traffic without the correct color code as well.
Setting up a scan channel
1. Create your channels for the system, valid frequencies and time slots.
2. Add them all to a scan list.
3. Add another channel with a little used frequency(this can be anything)
4. Add a random DPL to that channel(gain can be anything)
5. Turn on Auto-Scan, with the scan list that has the system channels in the radio selected
You should now have a system scan channel, all you need to do is go to that channel in the radio and you are now scanning.
I have another DMR radio (GD-55) that is not TDMA compatible, so can't be used on repeaters, but can be used with my Openspot hotspot. Unfortunately there's no mods for it. I'd like to be able to tune the power down to 100mw like I've done with the low power setting on my MD-380.
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Scanning a 4 channel Capacity Plus system with a MD-380. This was with the experimental software that allows the radio to listen to any DMR traffic heard. I have set up one channel as a scan channel.
This firmware allows the radio to pick up DMR traffic without the correct color code as well.
Setting up a scan channel
1. Create your channels for the system, valid frequencies and time slots.
2. Add them all to a scan list.
3. Add another channel with a little used frequency(this can be anything)
4. Add a random DPL to that channel(gain can be anything)
5. Turn on Auto-Scan, with the scan list that has the system channels in the radio selected
You should now have a system scan channel, all you need to do is go to that channel in the radio and you are now scanning.