G1SCY wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2019 1:06 pm
I know need to get GB7PL and its attributes onto the radio.
And here is your major misunderstanding...
You do NOT connect to DMR repeaters using hotspots (D-Star may allow linking to repeaters using the hotspot as a gateway, but not DMR). You connect to Talk Groups (or reflectors). If a repeater is on the same talk group/reflector, then the Brandmeister master passes traffic between your hotspot and that repeater.
The only way to actually "get GB7PL" is to climb a mountain and get a direct radio connection to the repeater. It is programmed into the RDT as channels 738 (TS1 TG9) and 739 (TS2 TG9). Those channels are mapped to the Zone "BM SW ENG" (choices 7 and 8)
Per
https://gb7pl.uk/ TS2 is meant for use with reflectors, TS1 is intended for local-only traffic.
TS1 TG9 should be used for local QSOs - this channel will act like a standalone local repeater. Hotspot users can use BrandMeister TG235228 to join QSOs on this channel.
I did NOT create a Hotspot channel for TG235228 as it does not show up on any (DMR) talkgroup listing I checked. I also feel you should verify that the Hotspot is working with the radio using something with a likelihood of having more traffic -- like the UK-Wide.
I have to reiterate: I have no experience with using a reflector. The US Brandmeister masters have disabled reflectors since every reflector has a matching talk group (but not all talk groups have matching reflectors). The UK repeaters, OTOH, appear primarily to rely upon staying on talk group 9, and connecting to reflectors on that talk group.
If you really want to try for that supposed GB7PL "local QSO" talk group via the hotspot, you will need to:
- Add TG 235228 to the Digital/Talk Groups table in the RDT (give it a reasonable name, and GROUP CALL mode)
- Add the new talk group to Digital/Receive Group Call List/HotSpot
- Add a new channel to the Public/Channel list (at the end of the list) configured identical to the 8th channel (HS 2352 Chat), but change the name to something meaningful and change the CONTACT to the new talk group
- Add the new channel to Public/Zone/HotSpot
Make sure you are using the HotSpot zone, and select the new channel from the list.
I would like it onto Channel 2, 3 etc as necessary.
Can I do it by amending CPS and save it up to the radio?
How easy is it just to insert a line ie move every thing down a line
so Ch2 becomes 3 Ch3 becomes 4 etc etc
Ignore the order of the hundreds of channels. For accessing channels, you use a ZONE.
You assign channels to one or more Zones (yes, you can have the same channel in multiple zones). The default ordering is the order in which you selected and "moved" from "available channel" to "zone channel member". Your CPS also allows reordering by either the channel number or by the name. Unless you have a really packed zone (on my MD390, a zone can only have 16 "channels", since the "channel select" knob is a physical 16-position switch), you can create a custom order by first removing all items in the zone (select right side, hit [<<]), then select (left side) the one you want first and hit [>>], repeat for second, third, etc.
Your CPS also allow for exporting various tables to CSV files -- you could then edit them using Excel (or other spreadsheet), and then import back (I'm presuming import replaces the entire selected table).
Heck with it... I can probably make the changes as fast as I'm formatting this post.
Redownload http://ad-hoc.microdiversity.freeddns.o ... oSetup.zip
It should have that so-called GB7PL Local "talk group" as the first channel in the Hotspot zone, and I've reordered the rest