Re: Baofeng DM-1701
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The DM 1701 is a good DMR radio. It works perfectly fine with he stock OS, which is what I use. It is best to program the radio using the CPS (software). Go here:? for the manual, programming guide and programming software. You will need a specific cable to program it, not the cable with the chip in it, like you use for other baofengs. You need this cable:??.? There are several places that you can download existing DM 1701 codeplugs (which is the term for DMR programs). You can use the codeplug sample as your baseline.? With the DM 1701 (which is my EDC radio), you need several things for DMR to work.? 1. Radioid.net DMR #? 2. Decide what server you will use (I use Brandmeister, which is the most common). I suggest looking at the local dmr repeaters and using what they use, or you can't connect 3. Download the contacts csv file from Radioid.net (this is the digital contacts list of the other dmr users so they show up in your radio). You cap at 120,000 so you need to chose which to include. 4. Download the list of talkgroups from Brandmeister. I suggest you load them onto an excel and get rid of talkgroups you won't use. I deleted the south america/middle east/europe ones.? 5. load the Talkgroup list into your cps 6. load the contacts.csv file into the cps 7. create several zones that you will program your channels into. EX: Primary / GMRS / EmCOMM / Roaming / Camping / DMR Simplex / DMR HotSpot (just depends what you want) 8. create scan lists that relate to the zones you are going to use. EX: Primary / GMRS / EmCOMM / Roaming / Camping, etc 9. create group lists (you will group your talkgroups into group lists related to however you want. EX: US / US WEST / US EAST / UK-Canada / ETC 10. Program your channels (no you can use pre-existing Analog excel files that you might have extracted from CHIRP, BUT you WILL need to modify the Chirp excel to fit the DM 1701 format- You do this by: 1. extract channels from DM 1701 within the CPS (this will give you the format to put them in). 2. extract channels in chirp for the radio you have that does work 3. copy column by column from excel #2 into the formatted excel #1. This is time consuming..but A LOT faster than retyping ALL of your channels. 4. import the new formatted excel into your channels 10. Go back into your zones and select the channels you want in each zone from your list of channels on the radio 11. As you are programming the channels, you will need to select the scan list you want each channel in (it doesn't covert right on the excel, so you do do this manually) 13. When programming a DMR channel you need several pieces of key info.? Let's say I am in Colorado and want to program the Brandmeister Guy Hill Repeater into my DM 1701, this is the info I see on the website. This repeater gives me access to 3 different talkgroups: 31083, 310847, 310894. The CC or Color Code is 1. 31083/310847 is TS1 or Time Slot 1, 310894 is TS2 or Time Slot 2. In the channel for Guy Hill DMR... I need to program 3 different Guy Hill DMR channels, once for each talkgroup. So Guy Hill 31083 would have RX / TX in the right spots, then I would select 31083 from my talkgroup list (if it is not one downloaded from Brandmeister- because it is a regional talkgroup and may not be in their list, you simply add it yourself BEFORE programming the channel). You select 31083 from the 'Talkgroup' drop down to direct the channel to the correct talkgroup. You will select CC 1 and then TS 1 for this channel (since the repeater has it set for TS 1- each repeater can do it however they want so there is no standard that I know of). Then you will select your appropriate Zone you want it in and the Scan list you want it in. DMR relies on these keys things being correct: TS / CC / Zone / Talkgroup / Group List / Scan List. I gave you a lot so I hope it helps and is not too overwhelming. Feel free to shoot me an email if you need help. Dave, KO6BAF On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 5:35?PM D.J.J. Ring, Jr. via <n1ea=[email protected]> wrote:
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