Hotspot

A hotspot is a low-power (10-20 milliwatt) digital voice repeater and gateway that enables you to connect to our PNWDigital netork (or others). We have 10 MMVDM servers which have…

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MMDVM

What is an Mmdvm? MMDVM means: Multi Mode Digital Voice Modem. That is to say, it's your Internet gateway to a particular digital network of hams, in our case the PNWDigital…

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How Are The Repeaters Connected To Each Other?

PNWDigital's DMR repeaters are connected by IP network connection to "c-Bridges" or conference bridges. These are computers that provide the backbone to manage up to 50 repeaters per (c-Bridge). Each…

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Talkgroup

A Talkgroup (TG) is simply a name or label that describes a specific voice call over DMR. Also known as a "group call" in the Anytone radios, the TG is…

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Codeplug

A codeplug (old school term) is the programming file that contains all the radio settings, repeater information, talk groups, contacts, and other easy to mess-up stuff, all which works together…

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RSSI, BER & Loss Rate

All are indicators of the quality of the received DMR signal RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) - a negative number -100 dBm is good, -65 is superior and -115 likely…

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Why Use Anytone Mode 14? *

PNWDigtial prefers the Anytones for many reasons. One of the better reasons is that Tri-band is supported (144-222-420) in the Anytones...if you use Mode 14. Mode 14 also provides access…

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Which Radio Should I Get? *

Simply stated, get an Anytone 878-I or 878-II HT if you can afford the investment. Great value to cost ratio at ~$300 (MAP), much less if you know where to…

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