wolverine
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Purpose: The purpose of this project is to provide Ohio DMR MARC user’s with codeplug programing offering true statewide interoperability. One codeplug, one radio, for the entire state of Ohio.
What can I do to help: That’s a great question. This will have to be a community effort. I do not have the logistical resources to travel the entire state of Ohio to confirm if repeater’s are online and find their exact location. By the member’s of the DMR MARC community, in the state of Ohio providing information. this project will be a success. If you know a repeater listed below is on the air and operational, please post in this forum and advise me. Please only post if you have actually confirmed by making on the air contacts on the repeater in question.
Provide the exact location of the repeaters: Why is this important?
That’s a great question. Let’s take for example, the CFMC DMR repeater in Zone 4, frequency 443.400. In the DMR MARC database, this repeater is listed as being in Cincinnati, OH. While this repeater is technically located in the Cincinnati metropolitan area, it is not located in the city of Cincinnati. It’s actual location is in Greenhills, OH on a tower with the antenna, 735 feet in the air.
Why is this a problem?
Because in an effort to cut down on confusion and provide a more user friendly and enjoyable DMR experience in the state of Ohio, it is important to know the exact location of the closet repeater. For example, if your on a handheld radio and your located in Hamilton, OH while trying to access a repeater in Cincinnati, OH. You are going to experience issues with your signal, not alway’s getting into the system. This will cause confusion and aggravation and serves to only take away from the DMR experience.
Now let’s say that every repeater listed below, is labeled by the correct and exact location of the city. Your in Hamilton, OH which would put you in zone 4, you go through the list of available repeaters and instead of Cincinnati being labeled, you find the correctly labeled Greenhills site. Wait a sec, Greenhills is right up the road!, I’ll go into that repeater and now your in the system, perfect signal.
My fellow DMR MARC community member’s, I don’t have the logistics to complete the project on my own. I need your help in confirming this data is correct, the repeater’s are confirmed operational, and most important of all, the exact city in which the repeater is located. If a repeater is labeled to be in Dayton but It’s actual location is Tipp City, then that repeater’s information in Zone 4 needs to be corrected to show it being the Tipp City site, not Dayton.
Once this project has been completed, the Tytera MD-380 codeplug file will be available for anyone who wishes to receive it. It is my sincere hope that we inspire other amateur radio operators to do the same in their respected states, creating statewide codeplugs.
Thank you to all those who will contribute to this project by reading this forum, following the project, and providing information.
What can I do to help: That’s a great question. This will have to be a community effort. I do not have the logistical resources to travel the entire state of Ohio to confirm if repeater’s are online and find their exact location. By the member’s of the DMR MARC community, in the state of Ohio providing information. this project will be a success. If you know a repeater listed below is on the air and operational, please post in this forum and advise me. Please only post if you have actually confirmed by making on the air contacts on the repeater in question.
Provide the exact location of the repeaters: Why is this important?
That’s a great question. Let’s take for example, the CFMC DMR repeater in Zone 4, frequency 443.400. In the DMR MARC database, this repeater is listed as being in Cincinnati, OH. While this repeater is technically located in the Cincinnati metropolitan area, it is not located in the city of Cincinnati. It’s actual location is in Greenhills, OH on a tower with the antenna, 735 feet in the air.
Why is this a problem?
Because in an effort to cut down on confusion and provide a more user friendly and enjoyable DMR experience in the state of Ohio, it is important to know the exact location of the closet repeater. For example, if your on a handheld radio and your located in Hamilton, OH while trying to access a repeater in Cincinnati, OH. You are going to experience issues with your signal, not alway’s getting into the system. This will cause confusion and aggravation and serves to only take away from the DMR experience.
Now let’s say that every repeater listed below, is labeled by the correct and exact location of the city. Your in Hamilton, OH which would put you in zone 4, you go through the list of available repeaters and instead of Cincinnati being labeled, you find the correctly labeled Greenhills site. Wait a sec, Greenhills is right up the road!, I’ll go into that repeater and now your in the system, perfect signal.
My fellow DMR MARC community member’s, I don’t have the logistics to complete the project on my own. I need your help in confirming this data is correct, the repeater’s are confirmed operational, and most important of all, the exact city in which the repeater is located. If a repeater is labeled to be in Dayton but It’s actual location is Tipp City, then that repeater’s information in Zone 4 needs to be corrected to show it being the Tipp City site, not Dayton.
Once this project has been completed, the Tytera MD-380 codeplug file will be available for anyone who wishes to receive it. It is my sincere hope that we inspire other amateur radio operators to do the same in their respected states, creating statewide codeplugs.
Thank you to all those who will contribute to this project by reading this forum, following the project, and providing information.
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