nd5y
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I'm surprised nobody posted this yet.
Shmoocon 2016: Reverse Engineering Cheap Chinese Radio Firmware | Hackaday
Shmoocon 2016: Reverse Engineering Cheap Chinese Radio Firmware | Hackaday
Travis is looking for people who can add support for P25, D-Star, System Fusion, a proper scanner, or the ability to send and receive DMR frames over USB. All these things are possible, making this one of the most exciting radio hacks in recent memory.
There is no way I'll ever risk bricking my lovely MD-380 with such "iffy" hacks.
How many times is this "news" going be announced? I've read this in at least three threads here already...
Even if it is real or works, any use outside the ham band will be useless with encryption.
...but it doesn't support those modes yet. Big difference between someone doing the work and its working to being able to upload your own firmware into the radio.
One of the great things about the hams is their ability to find solutions to almost any communications related problem. This has been proven once again with a recent announcement that some resourceful hams have reverse engineered one of the most popular DMR radios on the market today, the Chinese made TYT MD-380, allowing for a fully open source firmware to be uploaded into the radio.