Radioddity GD-88 APRS not being digipeated

[KK4KTV]

Good morning from KY

I have recently purchased a GD-88 from Radioddity. This radio seems to do great for DMR, but as an APRS beacon, I've yet to get the packet decided or digipeated. Ive made several adjustments. I have two means of digipeating, a Kenwood d700 at my home and a stand alone KPC-3 at my tower site. Neither have retransmitted the beacon and the D700 has not decoded the beacon. Any suggestions? Has anyone has a successful APRS beacon from this particular radio?

Much appreciated-
Brian- KK4KTV

 

[dickie757]

Can you hear the transmission? Try decoding with direwolf or soundmodem.

Check for weird offset in settings, and of course, that the antenna is hooked up. Guess how I know about that one

 

[G7RUX]

Does this radio actually output analog(ue) APRS? I ask as most of the popular Chinese DMR handies do “digital APRS” by beaconing position within a DMR payload.

 

[kg4icg]

Radioddity has a firmware release that came out on the 30th of March this year, have you applied it to the radio to see if it corrects the problem? Radioddity GD-88 DMR Radio | Max 7W | Analog & Digital | VHF & UHF | GPS / APRS | Cross-band Repeat | SFR | 300K