Speaker 1: This is the new offering from Shark RF. They're calling
Speaker 1: it a MIC, or as they label on the website,
Speaker 1: an M one k. It is a self inclusive, standalone
Speaker 1: hotspot with a built in speaker and microphone, so you
Speaker 1: don't need a radio for this thing. This is your radio.
Speaker 1: It's not a radio because it's not transmitting RF, but
Speaker 1: it is a over the Internet speaker two way transceiver
Speaker 1: type system. It requires Wi Fi to work as it
Speaker 1: does not have a SIM card, so you have to
Speaker 1: connect it to Wi Fi. But then you can connect
Speaker 1: directly to just about anything that Shark Ref supports with
Speaker 1: any of their other hotspots. And we're going to take
Speaker 1: a look at it right now. Okay, once again, they're
Speaker 1: calling this the M one k E or the MIC.
Speaker 1: When you turn it on, it has the voice announce
Speaker 1: like many of the previous models of open spots or
Speaker 1: Shark ref devices have. So it'll turn that on. I'll
Speaker 1: show you that here in a second, and you can
Speaker 1: connect to it. And it's cool because you can go
Speaker 1: into one of the menus and look at the connection
Speaker 1: settings and you can find out what IP address it
Speaker 1: is on on your network, and then you can connect
Speaker 1: to that IP you just type that IP into a
Speaker 1: browser and you get So what we see is just
Speaker 1: what you would normally see on a regular open spot menu.
Speaker 1: We've got this advanced mode down here at the bottom corner,
Speaker 1: bottom corner of the screen. There, you guys can't see that.
Speaker 1: But if you go down here at the bottom corner
Speaker 1: of the screen, check this box here for advance mode,
Speaker 1: it'll come up and give you a lot of other options,
Speaker 1: and then it expands some stuff here. If you mouse
Speaker 1: over the update, it'll say when the scheduled update is four.
Speaker 1: It's got a little pop up thing here that's not
Speaker 1: showing up in the screen right now. But then you've
Speaker 1: got all of your ID database look up. On the right,
Speaker 1: DMR Chat so you can chat back and forth with
Speaker 1: another person. Pop SAG, dap Net Quick Call User Manual
Speaker 1: on the left and Shark rf link on the left.
Speaker 1: Shark rf link is basically a two way communication that
Speaker 1: all of the open spots have had, where you can
Speaker 1: you and another person with an open spot can connect
Speaker 1: together via over it, and it uses some kind of
Speaker 1: proprietary protocol that Shark ref uses. It's not DMR or
Speaker 1: d star or anything else, but it will allow you
Speaker 1: to connect with someone else with an open spot, and
Speaker 1: I think you can do form groups on it too.
Speaker 1: So up here at the top quick set up here
Speaker 1: it'll let you one click connect to all of these
Speaker 1: different systems. Why set reflector here in the bottom right
Speaker 1: t G I F xls R E F quad net,
Speaker 1: NXDN other. I don't know what other is Alabama, DMR
Speaker 1: Ozark Digital and q R m K C three O
Speaker 1: l okay, not sure what those are. Might do some
Speaker 1: tinkering with that later. It does have an HB link connection. Now,
Speaker 1: with this HB link connection, you should be able to
Speaker 1: connect to a c bridge system that allows HB link connections.
Speaker 1: My c bridge has had HB link can actions on
Speaker 1: it for some time. I tried to fool with this
Speaker 1: yesterday and I kept getting errors with it. So I
Speaker 1: might try to do something with that a little bit later.
Speaker 1: But we'll see. But at least that's part of you know,
Speaker 1: at least it's in the menu, so that's a step forward.
Speaker 1: Freestar FCS, Free, DMRDMR plus, DCS Brandmeister d Star, Gateway, Amcomm.
Speaker 1: Not sure what that is eight m NOL. I guess
Speaker 1: you can turn it off. Shark RFIP Client, Local broadcast
Speaker 1: and Parrot. So all of these different connectors here are
Speaker 1: quick setup menus. I should say this is I've currently
Speaker 1: connected to the TGIF network on the stump Knocker talk group.
Speaker 1: So if you have read any of Angry American Chris
Speaker 1: Weatherman's series, the Survivalist series, Going Home series, that is
Speaker 1: a new network. They formed a new talk group they
Speaker 1: formed on TGIF and they do nets every Monday night.
Speaker 1: I've checked in that a couple times myself. In fact,
Speaker 1: right there, stump Knocker twenty nine five is the talk
Speaker 1: group ID for that, and you can set that and
Speaker 1: you can set different things in the microphone here, including
Speaker 1: the destination ID which is your talk group settings. Network
Speaker 1: it will settings here. It's got ten profiles and it's
Speaker 1: easy to switch profiles back and forth from the screen
Speaker 1: of the device there and then network. It's got different
Speaker 1: profiles here for Wi Fi as well. It looks it's
Speaker 1: got yeah, it's got five different Wi Fi profiles there
Speaker 1: as well. That's my home profile. And you can see
Speaker 1: network status right here, and of course you can see
Speaker 1: what IP addresses it is here after you've already connected
Speaker 1: to it, but it'll show you that on the screen
Speaker 1: as well. So what we're gonna do is walk through
Speaker 1: this thing right now. I'm gonna see if there's anything
Speaker 1: monitoring one of the system fusion groups, show you how
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Speaker 1: screen of the device right here. See the speaker in
Speaker 1: the front obviously screen there. It is USBC rechargeable, so
Speaker 1: that's good. On the left here, this is the PTT
Speaker 1: button with the up down in volume. See the volume
Speaker 1: indicator on the screen when we touch that down button
Speaker 1: or the up button right there. Just like that. Over here,
Speaker 1: we've got a menu system here with the scrolling through
Speaker 1: the menu, an exit This right here is your exit
Speaker 1: button here on top. To enter the menu, you click
Speaker 1: that right there, and to exit the menu, you would
Speaker 1: click that so we can hit the menu button, scroll
Speaker 1: down through the menu. Quick setup. If the screen is
Speaker 1: flashing in the camera right now, it's due to the
Speaker 1: refresh rate on the camera. The screen is actually quite solid.
Speaker 1: It does not flash like that, all right. So if
Speaker 1: we go into about right here, scroll down gives you
Speaker 1: the hardware version. You can change the host name if
Speaker 1: you want to firmware version, bootloader ID, all this kind
Speaker 1: of good stuff. Hit back on that settings Wi Fi
Speaker 1: and then we go to network status and this is
Speaker 1: after you've connected, and you'll scroll down here and you'll
Speaker 1: see your IP address right there. So that's how you
Speaker 1: get to the That's how you get to the network
Speaker 1: status if you want to. Once you connect it, the
Speaker 1: first thing and asks you when you come up is
Speaker 1: are you in the USA? And ask you some of
Speaker 1: the questions like your call sign, and it'll look up
Speaker 1: your dMRI ID by itself, your nxed E, n I
Speaker 1: D by itself, and then it will populate that stuff.
Speaker 1: Then it'll ask you to put in the or it
Speaker 1: will scan the Wi Fi and'll ask you to put
Speaker 1: in the password for the Wi Fi, and you kind
Speaker 1: of have to scroll up and down with it. It's
Speaker 1: got a quirty keyboard on the screen, but you have
Speaker 1: to scroll through it. It's not touch screen, so it's
Speaker 1: kind of a pain the Internet, but once you enter it,
Speaker 1: it's there, so it's not a big deal after that.
Speaker 1: And if I want to go here to the well,
Speaker 1: first of all, let's go back here. This is the
Speaker 1: main menu. So if you see right here, it says
Speaker 1: call log and it's got an up arrow to the
Speaker 1: right and it says set DST with destination and a
Speaker 1: down arrow to the to the right, up arrow to
Speaker 1: the left, down or to the right. Okay, so if
Speaker 1: we long press this up arrow, it'll give us the
Speaker 1: call log We can scroll down here, so there's no
Speaker 1: more call logs in there because I haven't had in
Speaker 1: because I shut this thing off overnight and let it charge,
Speaker 1: and then since then, I haven't heard anyone on the
Speaker 1: network today. But if there was people talking to be
Speaker 1: in there in the set destination, we would long press
Speaker 1: the down button and we got a different list of
Speaker 1: options here. That top list is your talk group, so
Speaker 1: you can change talk groups there really easily. You can
Speaker 1: get a list of talk groups. So by going into list,
Speaker 1: you can set favorite talk groups. You can do private
Speaker 1: calls there, and then you can do call messages right there.
Speaker 1: So all of that's accessible from the set Destination menu.
Speaker 1: Destination being your talk group or your JESU system fusion room.
Speaker 1: If we short press that button and go to quick setup,
Speaker 1: you can choose connectors right here. So this is where
Speaker 1: you would go to free dmr D, star, HB link,
Speaker 1: quad net, TGIF, brandmeister, YSEEF, reflector all of the different
Speaker 1: things right there. So that's what that menu is used for.
Speaker 1: But right now I want to go to profiles Configure
Speaker 1: profile right here, so I could set like as showed
Speaker 1: you on the screen a minute ago, I can set
Speaker 1: different profiles, and I have this profile set that one
Speaker 1: is the stump Knocker net so in other words, that
Speaker 1: one's connected to TGIF on the stump Knocker talk group.
Speaker 1: Profile Number two I have for Texas Patriots, which is
Speaker 1: a Jazus system fusion room that I talk on often
Speaker 1: in Texas. So I'm going to click that and it's
Speaker 1: I'm going to go in down here. You can rename
Speaker 1: it here, connect to or no. It's just more of
Speaker 1: the same thing there. Like I said, there's ten different profiles.
Speaker 1: But if we click, if we highlight activate right there,
Speaker 1: it basically restarts the connector why says first lecture six
Speaker 1: zero seven five five. Okay, there we go right there.
Speaker 1: That's the voice and it wasn't turned up very loud.
Speaker 1: And now I'm going to see if there's anybody listing
Speaker 1: out there. Case HWB Texas Patriots room testing a connection.
Speaker 1: We'll see, we'll see what happens. Usually there's somebody monitoring
Speaker 1: this system. It's a pretty active system really, and of
Speaker 1: course there it is. It is okay in our five US, Okay,
Speaker 1: in our five US from k C five hw B.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the comeback. Just testing this new device
Speaker 1: from Shark ref that's the all in one hot spot
Speaker 1: with the built in transceiver. Yeah, it's a pretty cool
Speaker 1: little piece of gear. I'll tell you. I've got a
Speaker 1: couple of members that have those and they just rave
Speaker 1: about the congratulations for getting to shut up. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be a neat to carry around in
Speaker 1: a small compact, works well, and gonna be enjoying it.
Speaker 1: So thanks for coming back to me k C five HWB. Awesome.
Speaker 1: So that's it right there. If we want to go
Speaker 1: in here and now there's people talking on it that
Speaker 1: I've started it, that's that's actually a pretty active group
Speaker 1: of guys on that system there, so check that out
Speaker 1: if you want to. Now, if I want to switch
Speaker 1: away from this, I can go to a quick setup,
Speaker 1: no settings profiles, and I'll go back to stump knocker
Speaker 1: and activate. And that's in the middle of a Qso okay,
Speaker 1: so it says Mike. It calls itself Mike, so it
Speaker 1: says Mike connected to mm DVM server. And now if
Speaker 1: I go to set destination, it's set to talk group
Speaker 1: twenty on the TGIF network and it is ready to go.
Speaker 1: And if I go to call log, it doesn't show
Speaker 1: me any more call logs because on this system, it
Speaker 1: shows Mike he's he's a he announced himself. The Mike
Speaker 1: device announced himself, so it shows the announcement, but no
Speaker 1: other activity because I haven't had any call logs on
Speaker 1: this system. So it doesn't save the call logs from whatever.
Speaker 1: If you choose different pro, if you switch profiles to
Speaker 1: different systems, whatnot, doesn't save the call log and go
Speaker 1: across profiles. So it'd be nice if it did that,
Speaker 1: but I mean, you know, it's not a big deal.
Speaker 1: I don't think if we want to go and set
Speaker 1: a new profile up completely, we can go here settings,
Speaker 1: configure profiles, and I could choose a new pro profile
Speaker 1: for I don't have anything in right now, so I
Speaker 1: can choose that. We can activate it and it's going
Speaker 1: to come up all right. So this is the setup screen,
Speaker 1: and this is what I saw when I first booted
Speaker 1: this device up. Okay, so we go to next. It
Speaker 1: asked me my region United States. Next it asked me
Speaker 1: my call sign and I have to type in my
Speaker 1: call sign here it's ok and see you have to
Speaker 1: scroll through this to get to everything. You can hold
Speaker 1: hold the hold the button down and it pages through
Speaker 1: it by by itself. Go back up here to the
Speaker 1: top and change the numbers. Okay. Now I go to
Speaker 1: the bottom right where that little check mark is right there.
Speaker 1: Hit that n X dn I D not found because
Speaker 1: I don't have one, uh d m r I D. Well, okay,
Speaker 1: so I don't know why it's not populating that that
Speaker 1: tip my call sign? Wrong? I sure did, wow, Okay,
Speaker 1: I typed HQB. I didn't even see that. I should
Speaker 1: put my glasses on before I do this. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: so let's correct that. No problem. When you go back
Speaker 1: into it, it comes up under the highlight under the backspace.
Speaker 1: So I'm in a backspace through that and b okay,
Speaker 1: that's correct. Right there, n XD and not found and
Speaker 1: it comes up with my D m R I D
Speaker 1: Right there. There we go. So do you have an
Speaker 1: an official amateur radio license? Yes? I do. Go to
Speaker 1: next and the initialization set up, complete finish, and from
Speaker 1: there I can go to quick setup and choose which
Speaker 1: network I want Brandmeister, d Star, Gateway, DCS, DMR Plus,
Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. All of these different options here,
Speaker 1: and I can save that, and then once I save
Speaker 1: the profile, I can go back into Settings configure profiles.
Speaker 1: I'm on profile right here. If you see this little
Speaker 1: arrow right there, it shows me on profile four. So
Speaker 1: I can go back into profile four and rename it
Speaker 1: to whatever I want. And I would rename it to
Speaker 1: something like Texas Patriots, which I know is a YSF
Speaker 1: YESU system Fusion Room. I named my profile one to
Speaker 1: stump Knocker, which I know is a TGIFDMR room talk
Speaker 1: group and whatnot. So you can you can name it
Speaker 1: to whatever you want to. So whatever works for you
Speaker 1: is what is what you would name it to. So,
Speaker 1: but this is a cool device. I really really enjoy
Speaker 1: how simple it is. I enjoy how switch b to
Speaker 1: Texas Patriots. Here, I've got another ready, and they're still
Speaker 1: talking about six zero seven five. Oh, he's talking about
Speaker 1: this device. So I'm gonna be carrying this thing around
Speaker 1: with me for for the next little while. It's this
Speaker 1: is a cool device. I got to connect it to
Speaker 1: the Wi Fi in my truck. Not a big deal.
Speaker 1: I'm going out to the hunting Lease later this week.
Speaker 1: Connected to the starlink and go from there. So have
Speaker 1: you heard of this device? What do you think about it?
Speaker 1: Have you picked one up yet? But this is all inclusive.
Speaker 1: You could do DMR, d star YSFU. I didn't see
Speaker 1: a P twenty five option in there. I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to go back and check for that. But a lot
Speaker 1: of different flavors of DMR and a couple of different
Speaker 1: flavors of d star, some other stuff I've never actually
Speaker 1: heard of. And what do you think you think this
Speaker 1: is something you would use, because I think it's something
Speaker 1: that I'm going to be using quite a lot myself.
Speaker 1: So put a comment in the description below let me
Speaker 1: know what you think about this device. I will put
Speaker 1: a link to Sharkrof's website. Actually, they have the open
Speaker 1: Spot four and four pro on huge discount right now.
Speaker 1: They're probably being discontinued in lieu of this thing, So
Speaker 1: if you've ever wanted an open Spot four now now
Speaker 1: might be the time to get it. Go check that
Speaker 1: out and put links to all that in the description. Blow.
Speaker 1: Thanks for watching