Posted: 12/21/2015 2:48:49 AM EDT
| How many of you are running a dmr radio and what are your thoughts I just picked up a connect systems cs750 and just getting into it |
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I've been actively involved with TRBO/DMR for many years now both subscriber and infrastructure sides for the ham world. I love it. Love the abilities it has.
I am strictly a Motorola guy. I've heard good things about the Hytera (NOT tytera) radios also. However, the cheap chicom radios have kinda killed TRBO for me and pushed me back to P25. I love the technical side of the hobby. That's what drove me to using commercial radios and investing time and money into putting up quality repeaters and such. For me TRBO has gone from being the technical crowd to now the typical rag chewers that don't care what their audio sounds like (they don't bother setting it up in the radio or the radio itself, i.e. Tytera, has horrendous audio and massive amounts of jitter), users tie up wide area talk groups for local conversations, and/or don't care about the technical side of things and just want to be appliance operators. I wish ETSI would make the Motorola RAS (Restricted Access to System) part of their standard. I am toying with the idea of activating that on my repeaters. The only down side to that is that it keeps out the Hytera users also. (ETA: grammer  )
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Quoted: I've been actively involved with TRBO/DMR for many years now both subscriber and infrastructure sides for the ham world. I love it. Love the abilities it has. I am strictly a Motorola guy. I've heard good things about the Hytera (NOT tytera) radios also. However, the cheap chicom radios have kinda killed TRBO for me and pushed me back to P25. I love the technical side of the hobby. That's what drove me to using commercial radios and investing time and money into putting up quality repeaters and such. For me TRBO has gone from being the technical crowd to now the typical rag chewers that don't care what their audio sounds like (they don't bother setting it up in the radio or the radio itself, i.e. Tytera, has horrendous audio and massive amounts of jitter), users tie up wide area talk groups for local conversations, and/or don't care about the technical side of things and just want to be appliance operators. I wish ETSI would make the Motorola RAS (Restricted Access to System) part of their standard. I am toying with the idea of activating that on my repeaters. The only down side to that is that it keeps out the Hytera users also. (ETA: grammer )I might as well stay with D-Star. It's not terrible and a little easier to use when I'm not in range of a DMR system. |
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Around here, its heavily used, and we have a DMR network that covers I 25 from Cheyenne to north New Mexico with virtually zero gaps, and I 76 from Denver to the Nebraska border. ETA: old picture of the coverage map, its even better now. http://www.rmham.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/RMHAM_TRBO_ColoradoWide_FUCK_05Feb2015.png You'll have to remind me next time I'm in Custer County to give what looks like the repeater on Pikes or down in Canon a try (I've had good luck with some of the Pikes repeaters from the Great Divide run at Monarch). TLF, you can't forget about Simoco. They have their ducks in a row as well. What makes the Tytera issue worse...when hams say, sounds fine to me (because they don't realize they are tying up two timeslots). RAS would eliminate Vertex, Hytera, Simoco, Tait, Harris, and some other decent 3rd party usability. That's why everyone loves DMR though, there are options from at least 9 vendors who make quality radios already. (Jury still hung on the CS750 in my mind though at least it is firmware upgrade-able). |
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Just don't go the way of the hipoint... Buy once cry once. Quoted:
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The DMR coverage in my area is better than the analog here, I'm looking forward to getting into it Just don't go the way of the hipoint... Buy once cry once. Yep, XPR7550 user here. |