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@@williamogilvie6909 I am glad it helped! Thank you for your comment!

@@John_Dollar thank you for watching and your comment!

I am not familiar with how the blue tooth version works.

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I would be happy to assist you personally to get yours up and running over the phone. If you are in the USA, you can call me at 210-687-2591. If not, we can talk internationally for free on Facebook Messenger App.

I tried it for some reason.I can't get it to open up the t.Gif. My next question would be I have the open spot 4.Will that same procedure work with the four as it does the other ones. I'm just wondering if that's why I can't connect. I don't know. I've only had this for like 2 years. I want to. Connect to TGIF.but I just don't know how sorry to bother you.when I click on the switch button.the os4.turns itself off. And I have to hurry to turn it back on to connect. It don't work..I'm lost.

@joecormier6720 it would ne much easier to walk you through it if you called my phone of 210-687-2591. I don't know a number of things you have tried. If you take the time to call me, I can teach you tricks where you can hop back and forth between Brandmeister and TGIF with quick push to talk radio commands for example. Maybe you haven't registered with the TGIF group. Anyway, call me at 210-687-2591.

I am glad it helped. Multiple profiles sure comes in handy for not having to keep changing the server passwords back and forth for Brandmeister and TGIF! I am glad it helped! Thank you for your comments.

I later discovered with that 02 suffix, if I added 02 as a suffix to another hotspot, it would transfer all the static talkgroups to THAT hotspot! In fact, I was able to transfer them to an Openspot hotspot. Later on, I got my static talkgroup list to over 200 talkgroups. Over time I realized some of the groups would pop up with traffic a lot and " hog up" the hotspot. So I would eventually delete the "hogs". It really increased the randomness of new radio traffic, and made for very interesting QSO opportunities. I really loved the command and control of being able to move them from one hotspot to another or I could bring them all down by changing the 2 digit suffix to something else.

@@k9wlwradio309I was able to get this working on my WPSD hotpot and verified it worked. It took a long time to know it was working because all the talkgroups I added were sleepy which was my driver for monitoring several at the same time with a single hotspot. I’m just not interested by the talkgroups that are hogs. My goal was to get just enough groups that I could incorporate my hotspot into my walks. If I have a QSO or two in an hour it would be a perfect balance of enjoying nature and solitude along with my hobby. I’ve realized that the generally geographic nature of Brandmeister talkgroups gets in the way. I think I’m most interested in sub-hobbies within our hobby but the chances of finding other hams in a regional or state group is hit or miss. I did get TGIF working too. It doesn’t have static talkgroup capabilities but the talkgroups seem more random than geographical but not necessarily named in a way to find people who enjoy the same niche within the hobby or simply other hobbies.

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The version of software I used in the video, was "virgin software". I used this version of the software to demonstrate how to accomplish how to change the 4 settings to unlock the manual dial hold time to infinite. If I used my most up-to-date settings version of the software, the 4 settings were already changed. Notice in this virgin software setting there are only 2 memory channels. Does that make sense? So you are correct in your premise.

Absolutely!

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@@robertaucoin3860 yes there is. In the URCALL field of the radio, Type NX followed by the NXDN reflector number. For example NX1200 will link you to NXDN reflector 1200. Once linked, dial up Use Reflector CQCQCQ to talk. I demonstrate this toward the take end of this video.

@@k9wlwradio309 Thanks very much!

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Thank you for your comment. Go to my next video to unlock the "manual dial" feature. It allows you to manually dial ANY random talkgroup so you can transmit ANY random talkgroup on the radio. This along with the promiscuous mode gives you unlimited talkgroups on receive and transmit on any 1 channel. No more repetitive codeplugs needed!

@@MrRicksho the folders should be already in the radio. When you search for a talkgroup or reflector you tap on the appropriate reflector or talkgroup on the screen and it should show an "add" button on screen. Press the add button and tbe 5 folders should pop up. Carefully press the folder you want it in and it should drop in there. The folders pop up whether they are named already or not.

@@MrRicksho once in the talkgroup always remember to press the PTT button an release to dynamically activate the talkgroup before making a call. Unlike reflectors DMR talkgroups always need a quick PTT and release to activate your dynamic talkgroup. As you monitor the talkgroup it may suddenly go silent after 10-15 minutes of monitoring. A quick PTT and release will reactivate the group. On many hotspots the dynamic talkgroups may time out if you don't transmit at least once every 10-15 minutes. That is a Brandmeister thing. TG 91 is a good place to monitor since it is busy round the clock. That way you can get a feel how your hotspot timeout comes in to play. If 91 goes silent you know you have timed out. If you are lucky, your hotspot might not ever time out. If it doesn't one key in and monitor indefinitely.

@k9wlwradio309 yes I am aware of the ptt to activate. Been using Droidstar, and it's the same. But I decided to upgrade and use my Radio,.

@@k9wlwradio309 hi again. i am having a few issues setting up my ft5d radio for configuring to my duplex repeater. am not too sure if i have to setup the two frequencies. and also when i hit the wires X on radio, i dont see the same screen as yours. can u assist with some pointers or setup pointers

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Unfortunately the pi-star software does not provide any crossmoding options for an NXDN radio. All you can do with an NXDN radio is NXDN. You would have to get either a DMR radio, or a C4FM Yaesu radio to do any crossmoding.

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I hope it helped and thanks for your comment!

Hopping between profiles has many uses! Thanks for your comment.

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In the YSF configuration where I type the 4000, type in the 6 digit talkgroup number. Hit apply changes. Then hit your push to talk on the radio and release. You should be in the 6 digit talkgroup. After you are done, type in the 4000 and hit apply changes. Then hit your push to talk and release. You should hear the Brandmeister announcement saying "not linked". You cannot use Wires-X commands to select 6 digit talkgroups.

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Thank you! I hope it helped!

Enjoy the radio! Let me know ifyou have any questions!

It is a fantastic radio!

You have to know which folder you entered the repeater into and scroll through that folder from top to bottom. The pre loaded repeaters in the Kenwood in the USA are in North America, USA and further broken down by USA call zone 0 through 9. If you dropped in a random folder, you would have to scroll through the over 1000 repeaters to randomly find it. You could re renter it a second time and just be careful to remember which folder you place it in so it is much easier to narrow down your search parameter.

The best way to switch back and forth between TGIF and Brandmeister is to set up an individual profile for Brandmeister access complete with the Brandmeister hotspot password. Then setup another profile for TGIF access comple t e with the TGIF hotspot password. Then you can just hop between profiles.For example, if you put Brandmeister in profile 1 and TGIF in profile 2. You can hop beck and forth by keying up a quick Private call 9001 to jump to profile 1, and keying up a quick private call 9002 to jump to profile 2. You can easily hop back and forth with quick keying the radio.

In the context of this video, all the commands to link and unlink the hotspot are directed from a DStar radio. You do NOT have to first link to a DStar reflector. You can jump from unlinked and directly hop to a YSF, or NXDN reflector with the appropriate link commands keyed into the DStar radio. The DMR network adds an additional layer of commands to first connect to a Brandmeister server, and then key up a dynamic talkgroup. If you are using a Fusion radio as the control radio the unlink command is to press and hold the Band button on your handheld and if a Fusion mobile I believe you just press and hold the * key on the mobile microphone. Linking with a fusion radio is tricky, because you can only hop in and around one network at a time. You cannot directly hop from DStar to Fusion and back. There are no special Wires X or DTMF codes utilized by the Openspot that trigger the Fusion radio to direct the Openspot from one network to another. As far as the DMR radio goes, it does NOT have an unlink command. A hotspot remains connected to za Brandmeister server even after you group call 4000 a Brandmeister talkgroup. After unlinking from a talkgroup you can still receive Private Calls on Brandmeister. Also there are no DMR commands that trigger the Openspot from one network to another. So in the case if the Fusion or DMR radio, you can only hop around a single network at a time. To go to another network you have to either use the Openspot dashboard OR you must hop to another Openspot profile that has been pre setup to connect to another network. I hope that answers your question. In summary ONLY the DStar radio can hop in and out of all networks with the appropriate URCALL commands keyed up in the radio, and it can do it all without having to leave an Openspot profile.

@@k9wlwradio309 i understand completely the context of this video and am also using an id-52… im simply asking.. in your dmr example.. you showed comand 4000 to “disconnect” from a dmr talk group and we all know …….U to disconnect from a dstar reflector. what you did not show… was any other commands to disconnect from a YSF, FCS, or NXDN reflectors/talkgroups… you simply went from one of those talk groups back to a dstar reflector and then disconnected to return your radio to a “disconnected from any reflector/talkgroup” state. I guess my specific questions which zI should have clarified better is.. Are there commands to disconnect from the other modes besides dstar and dmr… specifically FCS, YSF, snd NXDN….

@@ertonyrn I think I understand your question now. The standard DStar Unlink Reflector command (^^^^^^U) also works to unlink from any YSF, FCS, NXDN or Brandmeister server.

@@k9wlwradio309 ahhh gotcha! exactly my question. i didnt see that demonstrated in the video. thank you for the clarification. 73

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