[TheList] DMR Radio - Wellington

Sat Aug 15 08:54:29 AEST 2020

Hi Dan,

You are correct about the overseas talkgoups being for Hotspot use.

The NZ DMR network was set up for AREC and General Amateur Radio use 
within New Zealand.

The other thing to note is the lack of resources on a single site DMR 
repeater.

A single site only has two time slots and as such can only support two 
users at the same time.

The ZL and Local talkgroups are assigned to time slot 2 and all the 
others talkgroups, ZK, WW, WWE, UAE1, UAE2, DMR+SP are assigned to time 
slot 1.

This means, if WW is active, trying to use ZK, WWE, UEA1&2 and DMR+SP is 
blocked.

It's like a radio version of the old party line telephone system, that 
used to exist in country areas.

Would suggest you look at a purchasing a duplex hotspot, as this will 
allow you to access/monitor two talkgroups.

https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=SB_20200814143701&SearchText=MMDVM_HS_Dual_Hat+Duplex

The Wellington DMR repeater is not located on Hawkins Hill, but is 
further west on Wrights Hill.

It's coverage is very good into the central city, but not good south of 
the Basin Reserve and toward Newtown and Island Bay.

73 Paul ZL2BEZ

On 15/08/20 12:54 am, Dan Nitschke wrote:
> Thanks All!
>
> Some awesome information there, so it's great to get some feedback.
> I've got a codeplug which I downloaded off the AREC website. 
> [developed I think by ZL2RSA], and I've been having some good 
> discussions on the ZL TG about some of this stuff as well.
>
> My confusion came from the fact that the codeplug included Talkgroups 
> such as:
> /EU Eng TG23, French TG11, German TG4, NAmerica TG3, QLD AU TG5054, 
> Spanish TG14 etc/, but none of these TG's are carried on my local 
> Wellington repeater (or any other ZL-TRBO repeater I've seen across NZ).
>
> I'm guessing these were loaded on the codeplug specifically for use 
> with Hotspots...
> I'm in the Market to buy a hotspot, does anyone have any 
> reccomendations (or possibly one sitting around they'd like to sell me?).
>
> I've also noticed my reception on DMR seems to be much worse, than it 
> does with Analogue.
> I can get through to Hawkins Hill quite nicely on my budget little 
> Baofeng Radio, but seem to struggle from the same location on my 
> AnyTone when using DMR.
>
> Thanks all for your help!
> Dan
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