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DIgital Amateur Radio FCS network explained

I'm new to all of this, and after searching, I'm having difficulty understanding the FCS network and how it al works.

I've been on the x reflector website, but it doesn't seem very intuitive or have much of a description, that I found, anyway.

Are there any resources that explain the system better? YouTube videos? Even basic info like, are the reflectors tied into local repeaters. Like IRLP or Echolink? Or are they just "chat rooms" for digital modes?

DMR MARC network to be taken offline permanently in Germany

I regret the fact, that the DMR MARC network in Germany will be taken offline permanently on July 31st, 2017 according to the official website (german):

The German DMR MARC team will cease operation of the DMR-DL server as of July 31,  We would like to thank all the sysops and users of the network for the long-term trust.
  http://dmr.ag/dmr-marc-netz-in-dl-wird-abgeschaltet/
Das deutsche DMR MARC Team wird zum 31. Juli 2017 den Betrieb des DMR-DL Servers einstellen.   Wir danken allen Sysops und Nutzern des Netzes für das langjährige Vertrauen.

At this point time, we don't know about the availability of a permanent or temporary solution during the net (Saturdays 1600–1730 UTC DST / 1700–1830 UTC) for the access to WW 1 on DMR-MARC via crosslinks from other networks.

Stay tune
VE3WZW ANDRE

The Amateur Radio Digital Wars

The Amateur Radio Digital Wars

Top 3 Ham digitals ::
- ICOM - DStar
- Yaesu - Fusion aka C4FM
- DMR (digital mobile radio aka Mototrbo) - many companies producing transceivers - DMR :fragments: BrandMeister, DMRplus, Mototrbo/MARC
** Excluded :  NXDN, pDmr, P25, ect.


IMPORTANT FACT:

Interconnection :  when talking about all of the digitals, none communicate with each other.  A basic understanding is none of the different digitals talk together.

Frequency :  All digitals use Amateur Radio frequencies same as Analog FM - VHF or UHF frequency band, in handheld/portable or mobile or base configuration

Cost saving :  only one of the three digital has many many companies producing Transceiver. The other two * only have (1) one producer of transceivers.  The cost of a DMR transceiver abt. $100 or a fifth to the other two digitals of about $500 per transceiver

Most popular :  the first to market digital was DStar and since is the largest in the market, however with  DMR manufacturers offering a large selection of affordable transceiver.   DMR has grown in the market of multiples of 10x year over year.   The third digital is Yaesu and has very slow growth.

Summary : they are all interesting , however DMR is the clear winner.


* Kenwood TH-D74 DStar transceiver

DMR membership by country

Summary of files containing DMR IDs and Callsigns grouped by Country

The files are saved as .CSV for easy import
The files are saved as .XLSX as required by the CPS software

Brought to you by VE3WZW, Last updated: 2017-04-20

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IDs    Country
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2      DMR-Contacts-CS700-MD380 ALGERIA
15     DMR-Contacts-CS700-MD380 ANDORRA
23     DMR-Contacts-CS700-MD380 ARGENTINA-REPUBLIC
750    DMR-Contacts-CS700-MD380 AUSTRALIA
819    DMR-Contacts-CS700-MD380 AUSTRIA
1      DMR-Contacts-CS700-MD380 BAHAMAS
2      DMR-Contacts-CS700-MD380 BELARUS-BELORUSSIA
800    DMR-Contacts-CS700-MD380 BELGIUM
8      DMR-Contacts-CS700-MD380 BELIZE
13     DMR-Contacts-CS700-MD380 BOSNIA-AND-HERCEGOVI
278    DMR-Contacts-CS700-MD380 BRASIL-BRAZIL
83     DMR-Contacts-CS700-MD380 BULGARIA
168    DMR-Contacts-CS700-MD380 CANADA ALBERTA
188    DMR-Contacts-CS700-MD380 CANADA BRITISH-COLUMBIA
1,195  DMR-Contacts-CS700-MD380 CANADA ENGLISH
46     DMR-Contacts-CS700-MD380 CANADA MANITOBA
40     DMR-Contacts-CS700-MD380 CANADA NEW-BRUNSWICK
7      DMR-Contacts-CS700-MD380 CANADA NEWFOUNDLAND
19     DMR-Contacts-CS700-MD380 CANADA NOVA-SCOTIA
860    DMR-Contacts-CS700-MD380 CANADA ONTARIO
2      DMR-Contacts-CS700-MD380 CANADA PRINCE-EDWARD-ISLAND
459    DMR-Contacts-CS700-MD380 CANADA QUEBEC
19     DMR-Contacts-CS700-MD380 CANADA SASKATCHEWAN
3      DMR-Contacts-CS700-MD380 CANADA YUKON
1,811  DMR-Contacts-CS700-MD380 CANADA
343    DMR-Contacts-CS700-MD380 CHILE

DMR-MARC and DMR Plus partnership (DMR Plus North America)

DMR Plus is the original network that developed tools to interconnect Hytera and Motorola repeaters. It has been popular in Europe for years but now, with the cooperation of DMR-MARC, it has finally arrived in North America and the South Pacific. The DMR Plus architecture is similar to D-Star. Users have talkgroups to converse, to disconnect, and to monitor channel status. Users choose from a large pool of reflectors and move back to the converse talkgroup for all QSOs.

The DMR-MARC and DMR Plus partnership is ideal. The DMR-MARC network is robust and reliable. The DMR Plus network is more aligned with experimentation and interoperability of technologies. Think of DMR Plus as the best possible implementation of the former DMR-MARC Sandbox.

DMR membership by country - Mototrbo DMR Growth Trend

Mototrbo DMR Growth Trend :
AN INTERESTING BREAKDOWN OF DMR MEMBERSHIP BY COUNTRY

25,278 DMR Contacts UNITED STATES
1,745 DMR Contacts CANADA
Total number of IDs = 57,017
     The following helps us understand check-in numbers

    Summary 4/08/2017  ::
    58,149 DMR-Contacts WORLD-WIDE
    25,926 DMR-Contacts UNITED-STATES
    6,378  DMR-Contacts GERMANY
    5,177  DMR-Contacts UNITED-KINGDOM
    3,508  DMR-Contacts ITALY
    1,787  DMR-Contacts CANADA
    1,633  DMR-Contacts SPAIN
    1,435  DMR-Contacts NETHERLANDS

    Summary UNITED-STATES +1K= ::
    2,369  DMR-Contacts UNITED-STATES CALIFORNIA
    1,829  DMR-Contacts UNITED-STATES FLORIDA
    1,529  DMR-Contacts UNITED-STATES NORTH-CAROLINA
    1,402  DMR-Contacts UNITED-STATES NEW-YORK
    1,254  DMR-Contacts UNITED-STATES OHIO
    1,269  DMR-Contacts UNITED-STATES TEXAS
    1,142  DMR-Contacts UNITED-STATES MICHIGAN
    1,089  DMR-Contacts UNITED-STATES COLORADO


    as of today March 21 2017
    Brought to you by VE3WZW, Last updated: 2017-MARCH  
    IDs    Country. ------ --------------------------- 

    Top 10 DMR Stats for Canada



    Top 10 DMR Users and Repeaters Stats for Canada

    The chart below show the top 10 active DMR users for the last 24 hours. This taken from the LastHeard logging website ve2tax_com Stats values daily.
    Last 24 hours stats
    The below stats show the top 10 active DMR users most used for the week. This taken from the LastHeard logging website ve2tax_com Stats values 7 days or weekly.

    Last 7 days stats

    http://www.ve2tax.com/topten_weekly.aspx



    This taken from the LastHeard logging website ve2tax_com Stats values for the last 30 days most active users.

    Last 30 days stats

    http://www.ve2tax.com/topten_monthly.aspx

    These values are updated and change often on the website.

    DMR Database and Import Contacts

    Can Someone tell me how to go to DMR Database and import contacts to my radio Or upload a file that I can Import.

    DMR-MARC Network
    http://dmr-marc.net/cgi-bin/trbo-database/



    Date: 12Aug2015 - Canada
    DMR: Alberta (29), British Columbia (58), Manitoba (17), New Brunswick (24), Newfoundland (1), Nova Scotia (2), Ontario (349), Quebec (95)
    Count: 575

    1.) Pick contacts from the left side, any combination of Active from the top or the contacts DB from the bottom.
    2.) Check your count at the top!, we can only use 1000 ish in a radio, give or take. You can open/view more if you are not planning to write them to your radio.
    3.) If uploading your codeplug, do this now, *NOTE: If you upload a codeplug then make a change, you will need to select your codeplug again.

    DMR Audio Stream and Audio Test Meters

    HAM-DMR Audio Stream and Audio Test Meters
    http://norcaldmr.org/
    http://www.ham-dmr.org/

    *** ONLY WORKS WITHIN A CHROME BROWSER ***
    www.va3agv.com

    You can listen but the meters will only work in the Chrome browser on your computer--for now.
    Get the TuneIn app for your mobile device and listen to the NorCal DMR stream on the go

    *PLEASE NOTE: Hytera DMR Reflector Local Talk Group TG9 is now part of audio stream
    *** ONLY WORKS WITHIN A CHROME BROWSER ***


    UPDATE 2017 April :   NorCal DMR Audio Meter

    NorCal DMR Audio Meter – NorCal BrandMeister Network
    http://norcal-brandmeister.org/norcal-dmr-audio-meter/

    The NorCal DMR audio meter has been added to a new Web site.

    This meter delivers audio for Talk Groups 9999 and 31068.

    TG 9999 is the Audio Feed Talk Group and works with repeaters on the BrandMeister and the DMR-MARC Networks.

    TG 31068 is the NorCal Talk Group and only works with repeaters on BrandMeister.


    UPDATE 2017

    NorCal DMR Audio Meter
    September 4, 2016
    K6BIV  k6biv@mac.com
    http://norcal-brandmeister.org/norcal-dmr-audio-meter/

    DMR-Marc Private call

    Private call is disabled on many networks. On those where it works, you can call a contact by selecting them and pressing the PTT.

    It's generally not used in ham radio because some networks forbid it.


    READ THE BOTTOM :
     http://dmr-marc.net/FAQ.html
    • You may not make any private calls on any DMR-MARC networked slot.
    You requested an ID from this above website when ? we would have all read this (many times) ?
    Its in a different colour RED ... maybe should be flashing green. 

    THANKS


    DMRX


    DMRX is not difficult to scrape at all, just done a bit differently. In fact incredibly good stuff at DMRX. For example:


    There's no masking going on at all. It's just that the data is loaded dynamically as JSON and rendered in your browser using JavaScript. The code is all very clean and orderly.

    Poke around in the javascript for /api/ and you'll find a lot of good stuff in a format that's super easy for a computer to use. Way better than CSV.

    DMR / D-STAR Gateway

    The Germans have done it again!

    From the folks that brought us the ircDDB network, we hear from Hans-Jürgen Barthen, DL5DI, that there is now a gateway between D-STAR (DCS Gateways) and Hytera DMR Repeaters using the AMBEServer with either the DV3000 or ThumbDV™.  This gateway is in use at a handful of DMR repeaters in Germany and Austria with systems soon to be implemented in Sweden and Switzerland.
    You can download executables for the gateway and combine with the AMBEServer to create your own gateway. The software does D-STAR callsign to DMR radio ID mapping and transports audio between networks using the Hytera API.
    Another step toward Universal Digital Radio from the community of amateur radio developers using products from NW Digital Radio.

    Dstar vs Dmr rx only

    You can make your own minds up from this, my icom 5100 is rx via raspi the dp3600 is rx via gb7mb both work great , I would have done fusion also but not a sausage on it up here ..a dead mode