DMR training collaboration in Upstate NY

.......very nice story from Pete; NY2V:

Last Fall, a group from the Liverpool Amateur Repeater Club (LARC) collaborated in developing a comprehensive program designed to showcase the emerging technology behind Digital Mobile Radio (DMR).  We conducted our first full day program, DMR College to the Upstate New York Amateur Radio community in Syracuse this past October.  By all accounts, it was well received and was considered to be quite successful.

Word spread across the region and we were approached by the Greene County ARES group to conduct a similar program in the Catskill Region.  Len Signoretti, N2LEN, worked hard to procure space in the Greene County Public Safety Center, send out the invitations, and coordinate all the details.

On Saturday, March 30th, Rich Kilmartin (WB2WAU), Pete Sochocki (NY2V), Ron Panetta (WB2WGH), and Joe Apuzzo (N1JTA) presented a full day of information and skill development in utilizing DMR.

WNY/Finger Lakes DMR Net - Sunday Nights

DMR Net  - Sunday Nights - 8pm(+/-) on TG 31369

DMR Training by LARC

Please email: training@w2cm.com

DMR and D-Star workshop on 9/8/18

Seats Still Available!

Saturday September 8th, 2018 — DMR AND D-STAR WORKSHOP

The Digital Communications Association of Perinton, DCAP, will present a workshop to describe D-Star, DMR and FUSION modes.

 Mike Moore, KC2NM will be the lead for this program. The topics for the session include:

•  Why These Modes are Different

•  Demonstration of Each Mode On the Air

•  Connection Methods for Internet Linking

•  Repeater Types That Support These Modes

•  Multimode Repeaters and Hotspots

•  Radio Programming

•  Rochester Usage — Summary of Local Use of the 3 Digital Modes

More info on this and other sessions available at https://www.rochesterham.org/rara_academy.htm

Time and Location: 10AM at the BSA 2320 Brighton Henrietta Town Line Rd

Timothy Brown,
FCC Callsign: WB2PAY
RaRa Education Coordinator

cell: 585 750 2087

email: education@rochesterham.org

email: tjbrown@rochester.rr.com

LARC Evaluation DMR Repeater is on the air!

LARC Evaluation DMR Repeater Available for Testing! (Facebook update from LARC on 8/27/18) 

LARC is pleased to announce the evaluation DMR repeater is available for testing. We would like to thank Len Signoretti, N2LEN, and Dennis Hudson, N2LBT, for their assistance to LARC in configuration of the repeater and integration into the larger NY DMR MARC C-Bridge network. For those knowledgeable in DMR code plug programming (radio programming) reference the following information for code plug modification

Network: DMR-MARC

Rx: 443.3MHz

Tx: 448.3MHz

Color Code: 1

Repeater Location: Cazenovia, NY

link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/larcw2cm/

Note: PARROT is currently unavailable due to issues on the DMR MARC network and the DMRX group is working to resolve.

If you have any issues with configurating your code plugs, please contact Ron Panetta (r o n at p a n m a n . u s). If you have questions and are not familiar with code plugs, feel free to send them to Ron and he will either answer them real time or batch them up for Q&A at the September meeting. Please be sure to include your phone number in any email as some issues will be easier and faster to work via telephone than via email. For those of you who have yet to obtain a DMR identification number, please go here and register. It usually takes a couple of hours to get your ID. We cannot program your radio without that ID number.

We recognize many of you are unfamiliar with code plug programming. Fear not, LARC will be assisting in HT radio programming along with meeting programs on the topic should the membership move forward with procurement of the system.

Note that the repeater is temporarily staged at our Cazenovia location, co-located with the 147.21 repeater and will remain there until we 1) ensure any programming issues are addressed and 2) the membership votes on purchase authorization at the September meeting. Pending closure on both items, we will relocate the DMR repeater to the Pompey, NY location which is where the 146.91 repeater is located and the location of the recently disabled 443.3MHz Fusion

LARC proposes a new DMR repeater for Syracuse

Pretty cool news! The Liverpool Amateur Radio Club is investigating a a DMR repeater and providing DMR tech training sessions In Syracuse.



Press release from LARC on their DMR plans:

Liverpool Amateur Repeater Club (LARC) Plans for Digital Mobile Radio (DMR)

August 6, 2018

DMR has been a hot topic of late and the LARC Board of Directors (the “Board”) has engaged in many discussions on the topic over the last year.  At the August 6 board meeting, the Board passed a motion to bring to the membership at the September meeting a funding authorization, pending successful evaluation (see below), for the purchase, configuration and deployment of a LARC DMR repeater for the greater Syracuse area.  If one looks at some of the DMR footprints in Upstate NY, there is a very noticeable DMR void in the Syracuse area.  Repeaters exist both to the East and West of us.  The Board believes now is an opportune time to embrace the technology as it is clearly here to stay.