WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:02.399 Hey, before we get started, be sure to head over 2 00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:05.919 to ham Radio two dot com forward slash email dash 3 00:00:06.080 --> 00:00:10.919 sign up to join my email list of over nineteen 4 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:14.400 thousand subscribers, where I like to send emails about upcoming events, 5 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:17.679 upcoming shopping deals, keep you updated with all the stuff 6 00:00:17.719 --> 00:00:21.280 going on with my videos. Once that list reaches twenty thousand, 7 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:25.039 I will be doing a giveaway of another HF radio 8 00:00:25.480 --> 00:00:29.280 sign up today. And thank you for the support. I 9 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:31.960 should done mute. Okay, I show seven o'clock in Texas, 10 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:36.359 and I'm just gonna go ahead and switch right over 11 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:40.799 here to that screen right there, guys, good evening. Thank 12 00:00:40.799 --> 00:00:44.479 you for joining us tonight. Hey, Renee, I see Renee 13 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:48.039 six in the chat. We're going to talk about M. 14 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:49.960 Seventeen with Ed and Steve tonight. And I got a 15 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:54.719 brand new radio, the Connect Systems see us seven seventeen. 16 00:00:54.759 --> 00:00:56.880 It even says M. Seventeen on the radio right there, 17 00:00:57.079 --> 00:00:59.159 so you know it's legit. It's like reading something on 18 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:01.719 the internet. You know it's true because you read it 19 00:01:01.759 --> 00:01:06.519 on the internet, right, But supposedly this is the one 20 00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:10.000 that works. So we'll talk about that here. In a second, 21 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:12.640 I'm going to shout out to the YouTube channel members tonight, 22 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:15.000 the ones who have joined the chat. Wayne Tom, I 23 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:18.040 see you guys in there, Grayman, Poda, Steve, what's up? 24 00:01:18.159 --> 00:01:21.640 Jody v A five s Ar Good evening, ed Ac three, 25 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:27.640 I k Randall k k R five ee Lee, see 26 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:32.120 you in there. Ronald T Man see you guys in there. Good, 27 00:01:32.319 --> 00:01:34.319 good evening to all. Thank you to those of you 28 00:01:34.359 --> 00:01:36.280 who came out to the PODA event yesterday. We didn't 29 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:39.920 have very many people, maybe eight or ten something like that, 30 00:01:39.959 --> 00:01:41.799 maybe now probably like seven or eight something like that, 31 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:43.799 but it was a fun time. We set up the 32 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:45.799 hex being we made a lot of contacts. Ten meters 33 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:49.439 was open, fifteen meters was open, Don and five SKT 34 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:52.239 was out there. We plugged in the triplexer to the 35 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:55.000 hex beam. We ran ten meters, ran fifteen meters, we 36 00:01:55.079 --> 00:01:58.799 ran some twenty meters. Got a couple of a couple 37 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:02.120 of metaga out there named Mike who was a technician 38 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:03.719 and he sat there on ten meters with his G 39 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:05.400 ninety and made a lot of contacts. So it was 40 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:08.919 it was a fun time. So hopefully you guys got 41 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:12.280 to get on the air yesterday for Parks on the 42 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:16.719 Air New York Q so party was apparently that same 43 00:02:16.919 --> 00:02:19.479 day or same weekend, and Jamboree on the air was 44 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:21.439 of course on Saturday, so there was a lot of 45 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:24.520 people on the air on Saturday. Not a bad thing, 46 00:02:25.159 --> 00:02:27.280 just made a lot of contacts and it was all 47 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:29.680 a good thing. So thank you to those of you 48 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:32.120 who I worked over the air. That was a fun time. 49 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:36.479 So all right, so M seventeen I will give a 50 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:39.319 brief well i'll I'll let Steve or Ed give a 51 00:02:39.319 --> 00:02:42.919 brief explanation of what M seventeen is, because every time 52 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:45.439 I do one of these videos, I go back and 53 00:02:45.479 --> 00:02:47.120 people are like, well, it would have hoped if you 54 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:49.520 would explain what IM said, and like, literally, we've done 55 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:51.159 that like a half dozen times, because this is not 56 00:02:51.199 --> 00:02:53.199 the first time we've talked about N seventeen on the show. 57 00:02:54.039 --> 00:02:56.479 So I will get them to give you a brief 58 00:02:56.520 --> 00:02:59.439 explanation of what M seventeen is. I can give you. 59 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:05.000 My explanation is it's a brand new digital Kodak using Dan, 60 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:10.240 brand new digital voice mode using Kodeak two. I think 61 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:12.520 it's Kodak too. I think it's two. But it's an 62 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:14.520 open source CODEAC so they're laughing at me right now. 63 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:16.039 I can see them in zoom. They're laughing at me. 64 00:03:16.520 --> 00:03:18.360 That's all right, it's all right, it's right. They're probably 65 00:03:18.439 --> 00:03:20.560 laughing at my Accent's New York guys laughed at the 66 00:03:20.599 --> 00:03:24.039 Texas guy accent. And that's okay, that's sorry. But first 67 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:26.159 before we do that, I'm going to give the Florida 68 00:03:26.360 --> 00:03:28.759 ed for a minute. Let me bring them on here 69 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:32.319 real quick, and I want to choose which. Yeah, we're 70 00:03:32.319 --> 00:03:34.599 going to go to that one right there. Good evening 71 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:37.400 to you both. What's up, guys, Hey, how's it going on? 72 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:37.840 Jason? 73 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:41.680 Oh? It is it is a you know, the weather 74 00:03:41.719 --> 00:03:44.039 out here has been freaking extraordinary for the last couple 75 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:46.479 of weeks. It was like in the forties the last 76 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:49.319 two or three mornings, and it's been in the like 77 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:51.840 mid seventies to low eighties for the last two or 78 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:53.840 three weeks, and I'm just loving it. I'm like, I 79 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:58.800 wish it would. Our fall lasts about three weeks, so 80 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:00.560 I wish it would last the whole three months, but 81 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:03.159 it doesn't. But that's where we are today. So what's 82 00:04:03.199 --> 00:04:04.039 going on with you guys? 83 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:08.639 Same old garbage, join the beautiful weather. We're having a 84 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:12.479 resurgence of late spring early summer here as well. 85 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:15.400 Okay, okay, well. 86 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:18.600 Yeah, I think it got up to about seventy five today. 87 00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:22.879 Oh wow, Yeah, you guys are breaking up the swim trunks. 88 00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:23.399 I bet. 89 00:04:27.079 --> 00:04:27.160 So. 90 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:32.160 Yeah good Okay, So, Ed, I know you want to talk. 91 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:36.879 Ed is running for division director? Is that correct? 92 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:38.319 Hudson Division Director? 93 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:39.959 Hudson Division Director. 94 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:42.680 I'm the currently appointed Hudson Division Director. 95 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:43.519 Okay. 96 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:46.160 We're in the middle of an election right now, Okay. 97 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:48.079 I wanted to give a shout out to everybody from 98 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:50.680 the Hudson Division that's been out there and giving me 99 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:54.519 lots of support, lots of help, and also giving me 100 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:57.879 a hand helping out the the high school kids' St. 101 00:04:57.920 --> 00:05:00.240 Aland Technical High School. So a shout out over there 102 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:03.759 to Katie two z z t Everton. He's the he's 103 00:05:03.800 --> 00:05:07.720 their teacher. We've licensed one hundred and ten students wow 104 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:10.399 at that school in the last year, and we plan 105 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:13.160 on licensing about another one hundred and fifty more, probably 106 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:18.800 by January. So Everton is a graduate of the Teachers 107 00:05:18.839 --> 00:05:22.639 Institute of Wireless Technology from the ABRL, and he's one 108 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:26.759 of the two model schools that the ABRL has adopted, 109 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:29.920 so myself in Good Game. We go down there quite often. 110 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:32.560 We're hanging out with the kids. We're showing them a 111 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:34.959 few things, they're teaching us a couple of things, so 112 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:37.279 it's a lot of fun. We were down there a 113 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:39.519 couple of weeks ago and they had me in Good Game. 114 00:05:40.600 --> 00:05:43.040 It happened to be their club day, so they were 115 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:46.160 recruiting for their hamm radio club and they had me 116 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:49.199 in Good Game at the table talking about ham radios. 117 00:05:49.240 --> 00:05:54.040 Kind of interesting with the high school kids, but good. Yeah, 118 00:05:54.399 --> 00:05:58.959 Teachers Institute, really really great program. I think there's going 119 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:03.759 to be an upcot mean telethon coming up somewhere around Thanksgiving. 120 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:06.040 Oh good, okay, good. 121 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:08.360 So I think Josh is going to be handling that, 122 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:11.839 so okay. Well help And just a shout out to 123 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:14.680 my Eastern New York, New York City, Long Island sections, 124 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:17.360 and a big shout out to northern New Jersey. Thank 125 00:06:17.399 --> 00:06:19.879 you very much for the overwhelming support you guys have 126 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:23.399 been showing me in the last few weeks in regards 127 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:24.040 to this election. 128 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:27.639 Totally well, good luck to you. How many do you 129 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:31.759 have one person running against you or two or how 130 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:32.519 many is that working? 131 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:36.199 Just one opponent here. Okay, just one opponent in here, 132 00:06:36.240 --> 00:06:37.720 but one more thing and then I'll turn it back 133 00:06:37.720 --> 00:06:39.639 over to Steve. I just want to ahead let all 134 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:42.800 of our EWRIL members know that you need to demand 135 00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:45.519 and deserve a director that's going to go out there 136 00:06:45.519 --> 00:06:49.079 and get their hands dirty. My opponents said recently that 137 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:51.879 directors don't get their hands dirty. That's a bunch of 138 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:52.720 bull crap. 139 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:58.240 I've heard. I've heard section managers and division directors both 140 00:06:58.279 --> 00:07:01.959 say that once you get elected actually doing ham radio. 141 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:05.879 And the guy who the guy who's my section manager, 142 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:08.480 absolutely does not do that. He's got a really great 143 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:11.920 competition station with two or three flex radios and he 144 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:13.920 does a lot of competitions. You see his call signed 145 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:16.199 through on hammlert all the time. So yeah, he's like, 146 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:17.839 that's not gonna happen to me if I get elected, 147 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:19.800 And sure enough he's he's he's on the air quite 148 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:22.480 a bit. But I've heard that before, so yeah, about 149 00:07:22.920 --> 00:07:25.199 your hands getting dirty and about not being on the air. 150 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:27.399 So yeah, you want someone that does that for sure. 151 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:31.079 So well, good luck to you, man. I hope it 152 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:31.680 goes well for. 153 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:32.720 You, Thank you very much. 154 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:38.600 Yep. All right, so we're gonna talk about what are 155 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:41.879 we talking about seventeen? I'm going to talk about this. 156 00:07:42.319 --> 00:07:45.480 In fact, let me switch over here to this guy 157 00:07:45.560 --> 00:07:49.319 right here. Okay, yeah, that's right. Okay. So this is 158 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:57.079 my Yeah, this is my CS seven seventeen. This top 159 00:07:57.160 --> 00:07:59.519 channel selector knob doesn't seem to do anything. 160 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:03.199 Not yet. Uh it'll it'll adjust the frequency a bit. 161 00:08:04.120 --> 00:08:07.399 Will it. Okay, See it's not anything on the screen. 162 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:09.680 Well, maybe they did, maybe they changed something. 163 00:08:09.959 --> 00:08:14.160 Maybe it's different. So there's a there's a there's a 164 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:16.920 there's two different radios on the Connect System's website, the 165 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:21.160 c c CS seven thousand, M seventeen and the C 166 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:23.800 seven seventeen plus. And I went and ordered the M 167 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:27.319 seventeen plus, which they claim will do M seventeen, DMR 168 00:08:27.319 --> 00:08:29.920 and analog all at the same time. You just program 169 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:32.360 your channels. Didn't go well, Apparently the firmware is not 170 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:36.720 ready for that one yet. So I contacted Connect Systems 171 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:39.440 and I'm like, send me the one that that actually 172 00:08:39.480 --> 00:08:41.720 is ready to go for M seventeen, and he traded 173 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:44.120 the order. It was no big deal, but just be 174 00:08:44.120 --> 00:08:45.759 aware of that if you're going to order one of 175 00:08:45.799 --> 00:08:47.960 these radios. And I put a link in the description blowout. 176 00:08:47.960 --> 00:08:49.679 I can share it here in a minute. But this 177 00:08:49.879 --> 00:08:52.200 is correct me if I'm wrong. This is the only 178 00:08:52.240 --> 00:08:55.000 one that actually has M seventeen in it right now 179 00:08:55.039 --> 00:08:58.799 from Connect Systems, and yes it is. It is. I 180 00:08:58.840 --> 00:09:00.440 thought this was going to be like a copy of 181 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:02.919 one of their previous radios, or maybe a T what 182 00:09:02.960 --> 00:09:05.000 look looked like a ty T radio. This is a 183 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:07.960 brand new design. I really like the design. It's it's 184 00:09:08.200 --> 00:09:11.480 very solid feeling. It's got a recessed button over here, 185 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:14.000 much like you'd see on like a Motorola type HT. 186 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:17.080 It's got the blade connector over here on the side 187 00:09:17.080 --> 00:09:19.720 for programming, and they sent me it came with a 188 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:22.519 programming cable. It's got a really nice looking screen as. 189 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:24.519 Well, got some nice way to it. It's very sturdy. 190 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:27.360 Yes, yeah, yeah it is. It's very sturdy. So I'm 191 00:09:27.399 --> 00:09:30.159 pretty happy with the I haven't heard it yet, I 192 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:31.679 haven't actually used it yet. I took it out of 193 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:33.559 the box earlier today make sure it was charged up 194 00:09:33.559 --> 00:09:36.320 and flashed and everything, and Steve said they're coming flashed 195 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:39.000 with M seventeen firmware now, so yep, zoom in on 196 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:39.639 that a little bit. 197 00:09:39.679 --> 00:09:41.960 But what is this M seventeen were speaking about? 198 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:43.600 Oh yeah, we're okay. Yeah, I was gonna tell I 199 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:46.039 was gonna let you guys give us a spiel on 200 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:49.039 that real quick. So let's talk about M seventeen real quick. Yeah, 201 00:09:49.080 --> 00:09:49.440 all right. 202 00:09:50.200 --> 00:09:54.159 So M seventeen first started out as a project by 203 00:09:54.799 --> 00:10:00.200 voy check katch Marski SP five WWP in Poland. He 204 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:06.000 was experimenting with other digital radio modes DMR tetra, There's 205 00:10:06.039 --> 00:10:07.919 a couple others that he was messing around with, but 206 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:10.399 his radio club that he was part of was really 207 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:15.559 you know, interested in working on digital modes, and every 208 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:17.600 single one of them that he came across did not 209 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:19.840 fit the bill for amateur radio as far as he 210 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:22.960 was concerned, and so he decided, well, let's just go 211 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:26.559 ahead and make our own, and so M seventeen was born. 212 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:28.600 A lot of people always ask, you know what with 213 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:33.120 the M seventeen you know name, and it has nothing 214 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:35.840 to do with the pistol at all, as much as 215 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:36.639 I want it to be. 216 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:41.519 Yeah, do purpose pistol plus radio? There you go. We've 217 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:43.799 got an android radio. We need a pistol radio now, 218 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:46.080 So yeah, that'd be great. Okay, all right, go ahead. 219 00:10:46.279 --> 00:10:49.399 But no, it comes from the address of the radio 220 00:10:49.399 --> 00:10:51.679 club in Poland. I'm not even gonna bother trying to 221 00:10:51.720 --> 00:10:54.200 pronounce the name of it, but basically it starts with 222 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:57.279 the letter M and the actual building number seventeen, so 223 00:10:57.360 --> 00:10:59.399 it comes out M seventeen. That's what they named it for. 224 00:10:59.559 --> 00:11:04.080 Okay, Okay, I don't think I ever knew that. Okay, well, yeah, 225 00:11:04.159 --> 00:11:04.639 you know, I. 226 00:11:04.600 --> 00:11:06.360 Just do a presentation for a local club, so I 227 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:08.039 had to put all this information in so it's still 228 00:11:08.080 --> 00:11:12.360 pretty fresh in my mind. But M seventeen is a 229 00:11:12.440 --> 00:11:18.240 digital radio mode. It is does digital data and digital voice. 230 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:21.519 I mean obviously digital voices, digital data regardless, you know. 231 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:24.080 So ever, it's all digital data. Is just that one 232 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:26.279 is a stream mode, the other one's a packet mode. 233 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:30.159 It uses the codec to voice codec, which is an 234 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:35.399 open source voice vocoder from Dave Roe. I forget his 235 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:37.720 call sign. I keep forgetting his call sign, but he's 236 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:40.639 down in Australia. He did his you know thesis on it, 237 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:45.440 and it's actually used widely for free DV. So if 238 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:49.000 you've ever used free DV on HF, it's the same 239 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:51.600 voice codec. It's just at a higher bit rate for 240 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:56.159 vhfing up. When you're talking about M seventeen. M seventeen 241 00:11:56.279 --> 00:11:59.960 does digital voice, of course, but it's also digital data. 242 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:04.159 We're starting to really dig into the digital data side 243 00:12:04.159 --> 00:12:07.080 of it. So all the packet radio stuff, SMS, messaging, 244 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:09.960 basically anything that you can think of that would need 245 00:12:10.039 --> 00:12:13.519 some sort of digital mode is possible through M seventeen. 246 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:15.360 And one of the things I like to point out 247 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:19.720 is you can use M seventeen on some TNCs that 248 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:23.600 are currently available, such as the Mobile Linked TNC. The 249 00:12:23.639 --> 00:12:26.399 TNC three has it, the TNC four has it as 250 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:29.600 a mode that you can use. You just need a 251 00:12:29.679 --> 00:12:32.480 ninety six hundred BOD capable radio for that TNC to 252 00:12:32.519 --> 00:12:35.960 work with the M seventeen digital mode. And basically any 253 00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:38.639 kiss mode application that you can think of will be 254 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:41.960 able to use M seventeen as it's RF protocol. So 255 00:12:42.159 --> 00:12:45.519 things like Windlink has a pack at TNC mode, so 256 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:48.000 you could use M seventeen instead of having to you know, 257 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:51.000 pay for a viral license or you know, get a 258 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:54.039 packtor modem, you could use M seventeen instead. I mean, granted, 259 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:56.399 is VHF and up, but still, you know, it's it's 260 00:12:56.399 --> 00:13:01.639 a decent fast mode for a packet radio. But it's 261 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:04.480 been in development since twenty nineteen and here we are 262 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:07.279 now twenty twenty four. We actually have HTS with the 263 00:13:07.480 --> 00:13:10.399 seventeen protocol now being built into it. So I've come 264 00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:12.919 quite a long ways in the past five years. 265 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:17.320 Totally good, Okay, So I actually got that. Yeah, the 266 00:13:17.399 --> 00:13:18.799 last time I had you guys on the streamy all 267 00:13:18.799 --> 00:13:22.080 were talking about that seventeen module from I think it's 268 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:26.759 Lilygo that goes on the back of the the FtM 269 00:13:26.759 --> 00:13:30.080 six thousand, YESU radio, and I got that, and then 270 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:32.039 I never got you guys back on the stream. I 271 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:34.200 never did anything with it. So I've still got that somewhere. 272 00:13:34.200 --> 00:13:35.759 We needed to do that. One of these days. You 273 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:39.440 need to te him up with t o uh okay, yeah, yeah, 274 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:41.759 that's right. He has done that. That's right. That's right. Yeah, 275 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:44.879 maybe maybe I will do that. Okay, good deal. Okay, Well, 276 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:49.279 thank you, Steve. That's that's that's good information. So yeah, okay, 277 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:54.679 let's see. Let me make sure that that is make 278 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:56.159 sure that's that's yeah, that's better. 279 00:13:56.600 --> 00:13:58.440 It's a VK five DGR. 280 00:13:58.919 --> 00:14:07.440 Oh that's dav roh Yeah, okay, d DGR yep. Okay, okay, cool, great, okay, 281 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:11.320 So this guy right here, let me make sure. Oh no, 282 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:14.639 I'm trying to get my Oh there we go. Okay, 283 00:14:14.639 --> 00:14:16.840 that's better, trying to get my Make sure it's that 284 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:19.159 you guys aren't washed out on the background. Uh So 285 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:21.600 this guy right here, we can we can switch back 286 00:14:21.639 --> 00:14:22.120 over here. 287 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:24.240 Uh. 288 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:28.879 This this is my Bridgecom Skybridge plus hot spot. And 289 00:14:28.960 --> 00:14:32.399 I had ed Steve and Chip on a while back 290 00:14:32.960 --> 00:14:39.879 and we discussed the WPSD operating System slash application whichever 291 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:44.480 one it is for for hotspots. That's kind of like 292 00:14:44.519 --> 00:14:48.960 an upgrade to pie Star and it comes with seventeen 293 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:51.879 built in. In fact, let me let me switch over 294 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:55.320 to this right here, and this is my dashboard for 295 00:14:55.360 --> 00:14:58.120 the hot spot that's running right now. And you see 296 00:14:58.120 --> 00:14:59.639 we've got it set up from DMR. This is just 297 00:14:59.679 --> 00:15:01.080 the last thing I used it on. It's on four 298 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:04.279 to thirty three four fifty, but it's got M seventeen 299 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:06.639 over on the side over here, an M seventeen net 300 00:15:06.679 --> 00:15:09.360 on the network status on the mode status. So we're 301 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:12.679 gonna switch that here in just a minute. But Steve, 302 00:15:12.679 --> 00:15:14.279 i'd like you to take us through what to do. 303 00:15:14.399 --> 00:15:17.960 This is a fresh out of the box radio and 304 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:20.559 it's already flashed for M seventeen. You can see right 305 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:24.440 hopefully that focuses there we go M seventeen pound sign 306 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:26.759 all or hashtag all, whatever you want to say with that, 307 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:32.279 and do you have to I guess my my my 308 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:34.799 main question when I first pulled it out is they 309 00:15:34.879 --> 00:15:37.600 have they have a CPS on the Connect System's website 310 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:40.240 that says it's for DMR because you can flash this 311 00:15:40.320 --> 00:15:42.720 with a DMR firmware and it'll do DMR and analog, 312 00:15:43.159 --> 00:15:45.159 or you can flash it with an M seventeen firmware, 313 00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:47.600 and I guess it just does the digital, it doesn't 314 00:15:47.639 --> 00:15:51.039 do analog. Is that correct? 315 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:53.480 Or so I'll be honest with you, I have not 316 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:58.960 messed with anything regarding DMR on this radio. The if 317 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:03.200 you if your program channels on through the CPS on 318 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:05.480 that radio, it's only going to work for DMR. It's 319 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:08.200 not going to show up in them seventeen side. So 320 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:11.159 right now it's just manual VFO programming. 321 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:15.159 But will it do analog? And so you're if you're on, 322 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:17.559 if you have it flashed with them seventeen firmware, will 323 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:18.559 it also do analog? 324 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:23.320 Yes? Oh, it will okay, yes, yes, I think I 325 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:25.799 don't want to speak out of turn here, but I 326 00:16:25.840 --> 00:16:30.759 think the CTCSS is also working on that, so you 327 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:33.440 should be able to at least activate a repeater using 328 00:16:33.480 --> 00:16:35.240 the radio in analog as well. 329 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:39.679 So okay, okay, that's good. That's good, because that it 330 00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:41.960 was it was a little bit I don't want to 331 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:44.039 call it misleading, but it was a little bit ambiguous 332 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:46.960 on the Connect System's website because it sounded like you 333 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:49.000 flashed it with DMR and you get analog. You flash 334 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:51.159 it with them seventeen and you get seventeen. 335 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:55.440 So if you actually hold the side top button. 336 00:16:56.679 --> 00:16:59.759 Side top button, this one above the PTT, yeah. 337 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:01.600 So there and hold it, I'll lock the macro menu 338 00:17:01.679 --> 00:17:03.639 open and if you push the number five, it will 339 00:17:03.679 --> 00:17:05.279 switch you into analog. 340 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:08.880 Ah, there it is. Yeah, and there's a CTCSS the 341 00:17:08.920 --> 00:17:11.559 top one. Yep, okay, excellent. 342 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:13.839 Yeah, and then just pressing five again, we'll put you 343 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:16.000 back in them seventeen. And to close the menu can 344 00:17:16.039 --> 00:17:19.640 either well I think you have to push the button again, 345 00:17:19.759 --> 00:17:20.400 the top button. 346 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:25.799 Yeah, okay, yeah, we're back to the VFO screen there, okay, good, excellent, okay, 347 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:29.640 all right, So, uh so, let's set up seventeen. Well, 348 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:32.319 let's set it up on the hot spot first so 349 00:17:32.359 --> 00:17:33.839 that we can see this right here. 350 00:17:34.359 --> 00:17:34.640 M H. 351 00:17:35.160 --> 00:17:38.160 And I'm gonna go in. I got a lot. I 352 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:40.160 don't think I've even logged into this yet, so let 353 00:17:40.200 --> 00:17:43.079 me see pie store. This is a very secure pie 354 00:17:43.079 --> 00:17:44.640 store in Raspberry is the password. 355 00:17:44.839 --> 00:17:45.960 Don't give out your password. 356 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:52.480 I gave out chips password. Actually, So we're gonna go 357 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:58.000 over here to I think it's uh whereas oh configuration, 358 00:17:58.039 --> 00:18:00.640 that's it. Yep, all right, So we're gonna go on here, 359 00:18:01.359 --> 00:18:04.359 and I'm going to turn DMR off and turn M 360 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:10.559 seventeen on, and then I'm going to apply changes. Now, 361 00:18:10.680 --> 00:18:12.640 explain real quick one of you, if y'all don't mind 362 00:18:12.799 --> 00:18:16.319 M seventeen use it. What do you call the talk groups, reflectors, 363 00:18:16.359 --> 00:18:20.039 talk groups, yaser system, frusion rooms? What does M seventeen 364 00:18:20.079 --> 00:18:22.200 cause call their their rooms or whatever. 365 00:18:22.440 --> 00:18:26.279 So, if you're familiar with d star and reflectors, and 366 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:29.400 you know you get different modules on reflectors, M seventeen 367 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:33.200 is modeled after that same system it uses. So the 368 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:36.920 M seventeen reflector system is a subset of XLX, which 369 00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:41.839 is again a subset of D STAR reflector systems. M 370 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:46.640 seventeen reflectors have twenty six modules. We call them modules, 371 00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:49.160 so it goes through A through Z. So each M 372 00:18:49.160 --> 00:18:53.640 seventeen reflector can have twenty six different concurrent channels and 373 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:55.559 they don't talk to each other, but you can have 374 00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:59.440 different channels set for different things on a single reflector. 375 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:02.640 So like a d star has like two Alpha two, 376 00:19:02.680 --> 00:19:05.519 Bravo two, Charlie two Delta and all that. That's what 377 00:19:05.559 --> 00:19:07.319 you're talking about with modules. 378 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:10.480 Yep, yep. So in M seventeen it will be M 379 00:19:10.519 --> 00:19:17.440 seventeen DASH reflector designator and then module letter. So for example, 380 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:19.160 the one that we use here for M seventeen is 381 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:23.200 obviously M seventeen DASH M seventeen, and then the popular 382 00:19:23.759 --> 00:19:25.960 module that we use is Charlie. 383 00:19:26.839 --> 00:19:28.880 M seventeen and seventeen Charlie. Okay, yep. 384 00:19:28.920 --> 00:19:31.000 And as a matter of fact, in WPSD, that is 385 00:19:31.079 --> 00:19:34.880 the default reflector that you are connected to. Okay, as 386 00:19:34.880 --> 00:19:36.440 soon as you connect up. 387 00:19:36.359 --> 00:19:38.880 Yeap, gotcha? Okay, Yeah, so that's what we're seting. That's 388 00:19:38.920 --> 00:19:40.920 what I'm seeing right here on the screen is yeah, 389 00:19:40.960 --> 00:19:43.160 it came up. All I did was turn M seventeen on, 390 00:19:43.640 --> 00:19:45.119 and if you guys looked. When I went back to 391 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:47.359 the dashboard, they were red. It took I don't know, 392 00:19:47.759 --> 00:19:49.839 five or ten seconds and both of them connected. So 393 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:52.880 now they're both the network status and the module status 394 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:55.880 are both green. And yeah, we've got M seventeen and 395 00:19:55.880 --> 00:19:57.519 there's a bunch of them in. 396 00:19:57.440 --> 00:20:01.599 Here, and eight as of the last count that we have. 397 00:20:01.720 --> 00:20:04.599 Okay, and then with all of those you can go 398 00:20:04.799 --> 00:20:08.759 a through Z. I guess you said twenty six, right, 399 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:11.279 that makes sense? Okay, Okay, Well that's quite a bit 400 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:13.920 of rooms and reflectors or whatever you want to call it. 401 00:20:13.960 --> 00:20:18.559