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T I T reveals a brand new dual band DMR Radio, the UV three
ninety plus an i P sixty seven water proof and dustproof radio lineup. DMR
Radio lineup to their existing line of DMR Radio's t T as a brand that
most people know about it if you've ever been to DMR, we're gonna take
a look at it right now, all right. So in the beginning,
there was a company called Connect Systems and they made a CS seven hundred single
band radio, and shortly after that, TYT comes out with a single band
MB three eighty and the MD three eighty took amateur radio world by storm because
it was so inexpensive of a radio. The MD three ninety came out,
I don't know, maybe six months or a year after the three eight,
and people thought it was a dual band, but it wasn't. It was
simply an I P sixty seven rated radio. Fast forward a few years and
the UV three eight u V meaning UHF VHF. The UV three eighty was
the first dual band radio of the line. Actually, ty T came out
with the MD twenty seventeen, which was the first ever dual band DMRHT for
the amateur radio world. Shortly after that they did the UV three eighty,
and now finally they've done the UV three ninety and they're calling it the UV
three ninety plus. I got this from by two A radios dot com.
You could check a link in the description below for a link to this radio
so far. I like this very much. It's got a lot of the
same features on the face of it that we're used to seeing. They're calling
it a plus model right here, the three ninety MD UV three ninety plus
waterproof dual band DMR and if you read down through here it says Tier two
standard protocol as two fifty six encryption. That's pretty standard on these We don't
use encryption and ham radio, but DMR is oftentimes a commercial protocol, commercial
mode that a lot of fire departments and police departments use. The MD three
ninety plus is a dust and waterproof only when necessary a port is properly covered,
which is this port right here we've got on the side. Comes with
that. It's got a gasket around the inside of it, so you can't
get dust or water into it very easily, that kind of thing. And
you can see them sit next to each other right right there in that picture.
It's a video that by two Way radios put on their own YouTube channel.
That's the three eighty on the left. That's the three ninety on the
right, and this one boasts three thousand channels, which the last one didn't
have. Three things. In fact, I don't even think the last UV
three eighty had three thousand channels. I have been a little bit out of
the ty T DMR game for a while. I used to be very versed
on t y T S. I kept up with the m D three eighty
and the MD twenty seventeen and the UV three eighty for a while, and
then it's been a while since they've come out with anything new, so I
haven't really kept up with it as much as I should have. So I'm
very excited that this radio is finally available, even though they're calling it a
plus. The only thing I can really figure out about why it's a plus
because I went through the menu on this minute ago. I'm gonna show that
to you here in just a second, So if you want to see the
menus on this stay tuned. We're gonna come to that here in just a
minute. But it's got upgraded features like three thousand channels which matches the Nytone,
dual band dmr HTS, which is really good. The dual band feature
itself. I don't remember having a dual band three ninety in the past.
It's possible I missed something, but I don't think I did. It's not
on this website right now. They have a dual band UV three eighty,
but no du ban UB three ninety, so I think they just added the
plus to it say it was new, but this is a new radio.
It just came in within the last month something like that. So far,
it's lined up to the expectations of previous ty T DMR and dual band DMR
radio. So let's take a look real quick about at the overhead. So
this right here is the screen. I turn the density down on the camera
right there because the screen is so bright. I can't find a way to
actually adjust the screen. If you go in here two utilities, there's in
radio settings, there's a setting right here for backlight, but it's a timer.
It's a time out timer, so you can backlight always on. I'm
going to turn it to always on for the purposes of this demonstration. But
if we go here for in the utilities menu, so we can add a
channel, it's got this program radio feature which used to be you had to
turn that on in the software. I've not even plugged this into software yet.
Okay, So we can go here and edit the existing channel that we're
in. We can change it from DMR to analog and back and forth like
that. We can go here to add channel. Then we can add a
brand new channel instead of editing the current channel we're on. We're adding a
brand new channel here, so we can add an analog or a digital channel.
Right now, we're on an analog channel right here. That's the big
A. The big A right there means analog. And if you click on
the up and down arrow, you switch between the top band of the bottom
band. The top band. There is an A at four hundred and fifty
Mega hurts, which is an analog channel. Tap on the down arrow and
it is a D one one fifty Mega hurts, which is a digital channel.
So you can go in there and you can edit those channels on the
fly. What I remember about TYT in the past is it was easy to
go in an ad channels or edit channels for every feature of DMR except for
the talk group. You never could add a talk group to it. You
can add a time slot if we go in here right now. I'm gonna
look at this and I'm gonna say, okay, there is GPS on the
radio as well, but there's no APRS, so we're gonna go into Utilities
Program Radio and I'm gonna just try to add a new channel here and see
what happens. Say analog chant or digital channel, and I'm just gonna call
it channel one. Comma, okay, receive frequency. Let's go four four
zero or okay, you gotta back space this out before you can do anything.
That's my repeater for for zero five five. That's the received frequency.
Transmit frequency is going to be four five five one two five zero. Okay,
Contact one, so that is the talk group. And I haven't put
anything in this radio. This is bare bones out of the box. So
we're gonna go Contact one group, List one AD saved channel. Okay,
Now we can go to edit channel. Let's back this out. Oh,
it's not in the zone. Following back up they come. It comes locked
to one hundred and fifty megahurts and four hundred and fifty mega hurts even when
you program it from the front panel. I think this is some sort of
something along the lines of, hey, let's make it not wide open.
I don't know. I don't know why they do that. Anyway, it's
pretty easy to change that. You just power it off. You'll hold down
these two buttons right here on the side, the button above and the button
below the PTT, and you turn it on while holding those two down,
and it powers up and everything's unlocked now. So now we can come in
here to the I've got this Texas channel right there, and I can go
in here and go to utilities program radio and see that the RX frequency is
four four zero top five one two five, which is my repeater, my
backyard repeater, and the transmit F frequency is five top five one two five.
Okay, and everything in here was pretty good. Now, what I
tinkered with this for about a couple of days, and what I did was
I went ahead and plugged it into the computer and read the radio. So
what you always want to do is you want to plug it into the computer
and read the radio to bring in all the settings on the radio, and
then change stuff from there. I don't suggest creating a new code plug and
making changes on that code plug and then uploading it and nuking everything you already
have in here, even if this is brand new, because it's going to
bring in things like the volume settings, the might gain all that kind of
stuff on the back end that you don't really mess with. So if your
radio is completely hosed and you want to reset the radio, then you can
write a brand new code plug to it. But generally speaking, when I
get a radio fresh out of the box, I'll read it, make changes
to that bread code plug, save it to my hard drive, and then
write it back to the radio, and that's what I did today. So
after fiddling with it for something like I don't know, the last hour,
I came to the conclusion that you can pretty much program everything from the front
control panel from the front keypad, including timeslot and talk group, which I
was concerned about the talk group there for a bit, but when you go
to ad channel. In fact, i'll go through those steps here in a
second. But the thing you can't change that I have found is you can't
change the radio I d In other words, I can't put my DMR subscriber
ID into it. And I tried and tried, tried, and it would
not key up my repeater with the default idea of one two three four,
which it shouldn't do. That it shouldn't key up. You shouldn't be able
to key up on the system with a default idea of one two three four
and get past traffic across the network. Fine. So I couldn't figure out
how to change that from the front panel. So I ended up changing that
in the software that you saw just a second ago, and then after that
everything works. So here's a quick runthrough on how to add a new channel.
Okay, so what we want to do is we want to come in
here to the contacts list, And it doesn't really matter which channel you're on,
because we're going to add a new channel. So I'm gonna go right
here into utilities, and I'm gonna go into program Radio and I'm going to
scroll down until I see ad channel. Now, it's gonna ask analog or
digital. We're gonna choose digital. I'm gonna choose the channel name or blah
blah blah. Okay, I'm going to choose a frequency. You press the
up arrow to delete or backspace kind of, but that's what it does.
Confirm transmit frequency four five five one two five zero, confirm Choose a contact
now. The only contact I have in here right now is Texas statewide.
So that's what we're going to use. You can add contacts in another menu
and it makes you choose a group list. I just by default. Okay,
channel saved now. Okay. Now here's the trick. Okay, if
you scroll back out, we're not on that channel right now because if I
scre so I added the channel to the memory of the radio. If I
scroll back up to and we're still on the edit channel menu after adding that
channel, and I click on edit name. It says channel five. Remember
I named it that funky name. So that's not the channel we're in anymore.
So now you got to go to zone zone list is fine. Zone
one. That's the only zone in here. That's fine. Click on that
add channel boom and you tell it asks you if you want to add it
to A or B. A is the top band, B is the bottom
band. You can only add it to one. Well, you can add
it to both, I guess, but you have to do it individually.
And if you add it to one, it's it doesn't show up in the
other. So okay, I lost that and I'm just gonna add it to
channel A. That's fine. Okay. Now this is your channel list.
These are channels that are not currently added to channel A. So there's a
weird name I just created. Ad channel success. Successful. Now it's in
the zone and it should show up on your top band. So I change.
I touched the turn the channel knob at the top. Channel eight is
now that weird name I just added. Now we can go in back here
utilities program radio and now we are in that channel. So now I can
go to time out timer, I can set color code I'm gonna set the
color code is nine boom, and I'm gonna go timeslot. I'm gonna set
the time so let's yeah, time slot is two. The only talk group
I have programmed in here right now is Texas State, so t X contact
is your and it already asked me to add that when I created a new
channel, so it's already in there. That's fine. I set the color
code, I set the time slot, the group list is set. The
mic level I could change if I want to, and then I'm going like
that. And if we go here and I key up here that buzzing casey
five HWB on Texas statewide. All right, now, here's the call watch.
Here's my key up history right here on the call watch just a minute
ago right there, not there. It keeps, it keeps moving. It's
real time. So if I if I key up again, you'll see me
at the top there buzzing in the microphone right there at the bottom casey five
hwb Texas State by testing one, two, three, four five. So
there you go. So I added a new channel, all from the front
panel. But I am not able to come in here. If we go
down here, let's go go back to utilities radio settings. You know,
there's nothing in this menu for DMR sub griber ID or my ID as they
call it in this radio. There's nothing in here for that at all.
Okay, so we come back out. We go to radio info my number
and you can view my number which is three one four eight one four one
there, it is right there, or you can go to a radio number
list. Now this is something new that the previous models didn't have. I
can add four different radio IDs. So if I want to hand my wife
this radio and she's got a different subscriber I D than me, then I
can go and change slot number two right here to her ID. Or I've
got two IDs myself. If I want to change my DS myself for some
reason, use that, use my one ID and so of the other.
I can do that, but there's no way to change to edit this.
I can select what's there, but I can't edit that until I plug it
into the software and set my radio ID. But after that you can pretty
much add channels, adam to zones, top band, bottom band, change
talk groups, change time slots, change color codes, and do everything you
want to. And of course you can do it all from the software CPS
also, and I'll share links to that in the description. Blow. This
radio, as I said earlier, came from by two Way Radios dot Com.
They were gracious enough to send me this radio, so it'd be sure
to thank them. If you guys order something from by two Way Radios dot
Com, be sure to tell them you heard them about them on hand Radio
two point zero. But this is like an updated version of the old UV
three eighty and m D three ninety with some added features, especially front panel
programming which used to be really conversation. It's still it's still got a few
steps. It's not as easy as the any tone radio, but it is
doable once you do all the steps that I just showed you, and you
could totally use it with different DMR I d s after you plug it into
the computer first time and add that DMA. Put a comment in the video
Blow let me know what you think about this radio, if you think you
might pick one up, and what questions you might have about it. Seventy three