Help
Answers to common questions. For setting up an account, a hotspot or a repeater, see the user guide. Many more answers are in the BC DMR FAQ.
Getting started
- What do I need? Your amateur licence, a DMR radio, and your own DMR ID from RadioID.net. RadioID asks you to confirm your ID again every year.
- Which radio should I get? See Which radio should I get? on BC DMR.
- Codeplugs: BC DMR keeps codeplugs for popular radios.
Hotspots and phone apps
- What is a hotspot, and why would I want one? BC DMR explains.
- Connecting yours: sign in and add it on the Hotspots page. It gives you the server, port and password to put in your hotspot or app, and lets you choose its talkgroups. The user guide walks through it step by step.
Testing your radio
- Parrot, talkgroup 9998: key up, say something, and let go: it plays you back, so you can hear how you sound.
- TEST AUDIO, talkgroup 9997: plays a few short spoken sentences about once a minute, so you can check that you are hearing the network.
Why is a talkgroup quiet?
Some talkgroups are full time on a repeater; others are PTT: they come on at that repeater when someone there keys them up, and stay for a few minutes after the last transmission. The talkgroup matrix shows which is which, repeater by repeater. The monitor shows what is on the air right now.