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I am in the vicinity of a brandmeister network. Is there a way to change talkgroups in the radio without having to pre program each channel to a separate talkgroup? I see how to select the contacts in the menu setting, but does that only show me what is programmed in the contacts list? I hope someone understands what I am trying to ask. Thanks, John W4JJO
 

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wncrescue -

I don't own a Hytera radio, but since no one has responded to your question as yet, I'll just offer a comment... As you know, the Hytera is marketed primarily as a commercial radio. In my experience, most commercial radios do not allow FPP (front panel programming) capability, so it would be my guess that adding a talkgroup from the keypad would not be possible.

- John AC4JK
 

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Thank you Chief21 for responding. Your right that this radio does not allow for FPP. I do have all the talkgroups programmed in the radio. In the menu there is a setting for contacts, that allows to select the different contacts that are already programmed. I was hoping that there was a way to select a talkgroup and pair it with a channel that is already programmed. But as you stated most commercial users would never have a need for this sort of flexibility. Either way the PD 782 is still a great radio. Hope all is well with you. W4JJO
 
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The PD782 is front panel programmable and can change TX talk groups.
FPP is enabled on the conventional / general setting / menu screen.

Once that's done use the front panel menu button to select programming / channel / TX contact name.
I just did this between my PD782 and 682.

I just noticed that even though TX contact is item 4 on the menu I can't press the 4 key and select it, I have to use the cursor to get to it.
 

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ok, not sure what I did, but somehow I bricked the radio. It won't power on to even let me change back to original programming. Anyone able to help with how to do a hard reset? Thanks,
 

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Hytera

Your best bet is to find a Hytera dealer. The radio is a professional model and on the level of the Motorola radios, not the inexpensive Tytera, GD-77 etc. The FPP is normally disabled in use outside of ham radio to keep users from making changes that may cause failure.
 

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Thanks Jay, I might have found a solution, I'll know more tomorrow. I do appreciate your time.
 

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so Jay, I took it out of the charger today and it is working fine. The only other thing I can think of that possibly caused the radio to lock up was that at the same time I tried to program 463.8375 into an analog zone. When I programmed it into the receive side a pop-up appeared that stated out of band. Then I programmed it into the transmit side and "it took". or so I thought. When later after I started having problems I was able to power it up long enough to write to radio the previous program version. So I will have to see whats up with that. Thanks for your reply last night. Today without the 463 frequency it worked ok.
 
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