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The Ham Radio two point zero Audio
podcast RIP. Thank you for downloading and

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listening to this podcast. So basically
what I do is I take all the

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audio clips out of my videos and
upload them to spreaker, and then from

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there they're spread out to iTunes and
SoundCloud and now Amazon Audible as well.

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But I want to welcome you and
thank you for joining the audio section of

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this series on Ham Radio. I
hope you enjoy it, and I would

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appreciate you leaving us a comment or
a review on whatever podcast service you're listening

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from. Thank you. In seventy
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T I T reveals a brand new
dual band DMR Radio, the UV three

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ninety plus an i P sixty seven
water proof and dustproof radio lineup. DMR

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Radio lineup to their existing line of
DMR Radio's t T as a brand that

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most people know about it if you've
ever been to DMR, we're gonna take

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a look at it right now,
all right. So in the beginning,

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there was a company called Connect Systems
and they made a CS seven hundred single

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band radio, and shortly after that, TYT comes out with a single band

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MB three eighty and the MD three
eighty took amateur radio world by storm because

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it was so inexpensive of a radio. The MD three ninety came out,

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I don't know, maybe six months
or a year after the three eight,

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and people thought it was a dual
band, but it wasn't. It was

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simply an I P sixty seven rated
radio. Fast forward a few years and

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the UV three eight u V meaning
UHF VHF. The UV three eighty was

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the first dual band radio of the
line. Actually, ty T came out

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with the MD twenty seventeen, which
was the first ever dual band DMRHT for

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the amateur radio world. Shortly after
that they did the UV three eighty,

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and now finally they've done the UV
three ninety and they're calling it the UV

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three ninety plus. I got this
from by two A radios dot com.

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You could check a link in the
description below for a link to this radio

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so far. I like this very
much. It's got a lot of the

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same features on the face of it
that we're used to seeing. They're calling

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it a plus model right here,
the three ninety MD UV three ninety plus

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waterproof dual band DMR and if you
read down through here it says Tier two

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standard protocol as two fifty six encryption. That's pretty standard on these We don't

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use encryption and ham radio, but
DMR is oftentimes a commercial protocol, commercial

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mode that a lot of fire departments
and police departments use. The MD three

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ninety plus is a dust and waterproof
only when necessary a port is properly covered,

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which is this port right here we've
got on the side. Comes with

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that. It's got a gasket around
the inside of it, so you can't

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get dust or water into it very
easily, that kind of thing. And

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you can see them sit next to
each other right right there in that picture.

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It's a video that by two Way
radios put on their own YouTube channel.

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That's the three eighty on the left. That's the three ninety on the

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right, and this one boasts three
thousand channels, which the last one didn't

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have. Three things. In fact, I don't even think the last UV

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three eighty had three thousand channels.
I have been a little bit out of

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the ty T DMR game for a
while. I used to be very versed

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on t y T S. I
kept up with the m D three eighty

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and the MD twenty seventeen and the
UV three eighty for a while, and

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then it's been a while since they've
come out with anything new, so I

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haven't really kept up with it as
much as I should have. So I'm

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very excited that this radio is finally
available, even though they're calling it a

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plus. The only thing I can
really figure out about why it's a plus

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because I went through the menu on
this minute ago. I'm gonna show that

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to you here in just a second, So if you want to see the

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menus on this stay tuned. We're
gonna come to that here in just a

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minute. But it's got upgraded features
like three thousand channels which matches the Nytone,

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dual band dmr HTS, which is
really good. The dual band feature

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itself. I don't remember having a
dual band three ninety in the past.

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It's possible I missed something, but
I don't think I did. It's not

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on this website right now. They
have a dual band UV three eighty,

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but no du ban UB three ninety, so I think they just added the

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plus to it say it was new, but this is a new radio.

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It just came in within the last
month something like that. So far,

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it's lined up to the expectations of
previous ty T DMR and dual band DMR

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radio. So let's take a look
real quick about at the overhead. So

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this right here is the screen.
I turn the density down on the camera

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right there because the screen is so
bright. I can't find a way to

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actually adjust the screen. If you
go in here two utilities, there's in

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radio settings, there's a setting right
here for backlight, but it's a timer.

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It's a time out timer, so
you can backlight always on. I'm

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going to turn it to always on
for the purposes of this demonstration. But

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if we go here for in the
utilities menu, so we can add a

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channel, it's got this program radio
feature which used to be you had to

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turn that on in the software.
I've not even plugged this into software yet.

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Okay, So we can go here
and edit the existing channel that we're

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in. We can change it from
DMR to analog and back and forth like

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that. We can go here to
add channel. Then we can add a

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brand new channel instead of editing the
current channel we're on. We're adding a

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brand new channel here, so we
can add an analog or a digital channel.

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Right now, we're on an analog
channel right here. That's the big

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A. The big A right there
means analog. And if you click on

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the up and down arrow, you
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band. The top band. There
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Mega hurts, which is an analog
channel. Tap on the down arrow and

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it is a D one one fifty
Mega hurts, which is a digital channel.

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So you can go in there and
you can edit those channels on the

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fly. What I remember about TYT
in the past is it was easy to

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go in an ad channels or edit
channels for every feature of DMR except for

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the talk group. You never could
add a talk group to it. You

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can add a time slot if we
go in here right now. I'm gonna

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look at this and I'm gonna say, okay, there is GPS on the

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radio as well, but there's no
APRS, so we're gonna go into Utilities

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Program Radio and I'm gonna just try
to add a new channel here and see

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what happens. Say analog chant or
digital channel, and I'm just gonna call

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it channel one. Comma, okay, receive frequency. Let's go four four

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zero or okay, you gotta back
space this out before you can do anything.

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That's my repeater for for zero five
five. That's the received frequency.

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Transmit frequency is going to be four
five five one two five zero. Okay,

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Contact one, so that is the
talk group. And I haven't put

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anything in this radio. This is
bare bones out of the box. So

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we're gonna go Contact one group,
List one AD saved channel. Okay,

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Now we can go to edit channel. Let's back this out. Oh,

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it's not in the zone. Following
back up they come. It comes locked

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to one hundred and fifty megahurts and
four hundred and fifty mega hurts even when

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you program it from the front panel. I think this is some sort of

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something along the lines of, hey, let's make it not wide open.

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I don't know. I don't know
why they do that. Anyway, it's

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pretty easy to change that. You
just power it off. You'll hold down

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these two buttons right here on the
side, the button above and the button

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below the PTT, and you turn
it on while holding those two down,

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and it powers up and everything's unlocked
now. So now we can come in

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here to the I've got this Texas
channel right there, and I can go

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in here and go to utilities program
radio and see that the RX frequency is

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four four zero top five one two
five, which is my repeater, my

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backyard repeater, and the transmit F
frequency is five top five one two five.

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Okay, and everything in here was
pretty good. Now, what I

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tinkered with this for about a couple
of days, and what I did was

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I went ahead and plugged it into
the computer and read the radio. So

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what you always want to do is
you want to plug it into the computer

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and read the radio to bring in
all the settings on the radio, and

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then change stuff from there. I
don't suggest creating a new code plug and

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making changes on that code plug and
then uploading it and nuking everything you already

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have in here, even if this
is brand new, because it's going to

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bring in things like the volume settings, the might gain all that kind of

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stuff on the back end that you
don't really mess with. So if your

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radio is completely hosed and you want
to reset the radio, then you can

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write a brand new code plug to
it. But generally speaking, when I

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get a radio fresh out of the
box, I'll read it, make changes

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to that bread code plug, save
it to my hard drive, and then

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write it back to the radio,
and that's what I did today. So

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after fiddling with it for something like
I don't know, the last hour,

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I came to the conclusion that you
can pretty much program everything from the front

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control panel from the front keypad,
including timeslot and talk group, which I

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was concerned about the talk group there
for a bit, but when you go

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to ad channel. In fact,
i'll go through those steps here in a

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second. But the thing you can't
change that I have found is you can't

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change the radio I d In other
words, I can't put my DMR subscriber

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ID into it. And I tried
and tried, tried, and it would

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not key up my repeater with the
default idea of one two three four,

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which it shouldn't do. That it
shouldn't key up. You shouldn't be able

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to key up on the system with
a default idea of one two three four

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and get past traffic across the network. Fine. So I couldn't figure out

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how to change that from the front
panel. So I ended up changing that

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in the software that you saw just
a second ago, and then after that

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everything works. So here's a quick
runthrough on how to add a new channel.

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Okay, so what we want to
do is we want to come in

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here to the contacts list, And
it doesn't really matter which channel you're on,

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because we're going to add a new
channel. So I'm gonna go right

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here into utilities, and I'm gonna
go into program Radio and I'm going to

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scroll down until I see ad channel. Now, it's gonna ask analog or

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digital. We're gonna choose digital.
I'm gonna choose the channel name or blah

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blah blah. Okay, I'm going
to choose a frequency. You press the

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up arrow to delete or backspace kind
of, but that's what it does.

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Confirm transmit frequency four five five one
two five zero, confirm Choose a contact

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now. The only contact I have
in here right now is Texas statewide.

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So that's what we're going to use. You can add contacts in another menu

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and it makes you choose a group
list. I just by default. Okay,

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channel saved now. Okay. Now
here's the trick. Okay, if

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you scroll back out, we're not
on that channel right now because if I

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scre so I added the channel to
the memory of the radio. If I

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scroll back up to and we're still
on the edit channel menu after adding that

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channel, and I click on edit
name. It says channel five. Remember

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I named it that funky name.
So that's not the channel we're in anymore.

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So now you got to go to
zone zone list is fine. Zone

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one. That's the only zone in
here. That's fine. Click on that

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add channel boom and you tell it
asks you if you want to add it

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to A or B. A is
the top band, B is the bottom

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band. You can only add it
to one. Well, you can add

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it to both, I guess,
but you have to do it individually.

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And if you add it to one, it's it doesn't show up in the

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other. So okay, I lost
that and I'm just gonna add it to

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channel A. That's fine. Okay. Now this is your channel list.

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These are channels that are not currently
added to channel A. So there's a

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weird name I just created. Ad
channel success. Successful. Now it's in

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the zone and it should show up
on your top band. So I change.

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I touched the turn the channel knob
at the top. Channel eight is

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now that weird name I just added. Now we can go in back here

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utilities program radio and now we are
in that channel. So now I can

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go to time out timer, I
can set color code I'm gonna set the

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color code is nine boom, and
I'm gonna go timeslot. I'm gonna set

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the time so let's yeah, time
slot is two. The only talk group

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I have programmed in here right now
is Texas State, so t X contact

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is your and it already asked me
to add that when I created a new

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channel, so it's already in there. That's fine. I set the color

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code, I set the time slot, the group list is set. The

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mic level I could change if I
want to, and then I'm going like

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that. And if we go here
and I key up here that buzzing casey

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five HWB on Texas statewide. All
right, now, here's the call watch.

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Here's my key up history right here
on the call watch just a minute

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ago right there, not there.
It keeps, it keeps moving. It's

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real time. So if I if
I key up again, you'll see me

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at the top there buzzing in the
microphone right there at the bottom casey five

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hwb Texas State by testing one,
two, three, four five. So

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there you go. So I added
a new channel, all from the front

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panel. But I am not able
to come in here. If we go

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down here, let's go go back
to utilities radio settings. You know,

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there's nothing in this menu for DMR
sub griber ID or my ID as they

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call it in this radio. There's
nothing in here for that at all.

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Okay, so we come back out. We go to radio info my number

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and you can view my number which
is three one four eight one four one

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there, it is right there,
or you can go to a radio number

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list. Now this is something new
that the previous models didn't have. I

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can add four different radio IDs.
So if I want to hand my wife

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this radio and she's got a different
subscriber I D than me, then I

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can go and change slot number two
right here to her ID. Or I've

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got two IDs myself. If I
want to change my DS myself for some

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reason, use that, use my
one ID and so of the other.

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I can do that, but there's
no way to change to edit this.

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I can select what's there, but
I can't edit that until I plug it

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into the software and set my radio
ID. But after that you can pretty

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much add channels, adam to zones, top band, bottom band, change

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talk groups, change time slots,
change color codes, and do everything you

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want to. And of course you
can do it all from the software CPS

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also, and I'll share links to
that in the description. Blow. This

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radio, as I said earlier,
came from by two Way Radios dot Com.

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They were gracious enough to send me
this radio, so it'd be sure

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to thank them. If you guys
order something from by two Way Radios dot

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Com, be sure to tell them
you heard them about them on hand Radio

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two point zero. But this is
like an updated version of the old UV

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three eighty and m D three ninety
with some added features, especially front panel

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programming which used to be really conversation. It's still it's still got a few

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steps. It's not as easy as
the any tone radio, but it is

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doable once you do all the steps
that I just showed you, and you

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could totally use it with different DMR
I d s after you plug it into

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the computer first time and add that
DMA. Put a comment in the video

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Blow let me know what you think
about this radio, if you think you

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might pick one up, and what
questions you might have about it. Seventy three