DMR CPS Programmer by DL5MCC

DMR CPS Programmer by DL5MCC

What is CPSProgrammer?
DMR (Digital Mobile Radio) is a digital voice (DV) modulation scheme, which becomes more and more popular in amateur radio (ham radio). To be able to use the radio transceivers, all frequencies (channels) used must be entered as a „memory channel“ into the so called codeplug (CP). There is a huge number of local radio repeaters, as well as analogue FM repeaters and simplex frequencies, which all have to be entered into the CP by typing it manually into a programming software (CPS). Only in Germany we currently have about 270 DMR repeater, which expand to about 600 channels (2 timeslots + many mixed mode FM) only for DMR.

Features and Limitations

CPSProgrammer is an automatic programming (programming robot) of the channel information of a CPS. CPSProgrammer reads all input-information from a CSV file. CPSProgrammer is designed to interact with the existing vendor-provided CPS software. CPSProgrammer does not read or write codeplug-files (.rdt, .rcd, .rcdx).  The vendor's CPS software must be running for CPSProgrammer to update the codeplug that is open in vendor's CPS software (see picture above:  "Principle of the CPSProgrammer"). Currently supported CPS software. CSI CS700 Radio Programming Software V1.25 (2015-06-04): CS700, CS701, Kirisun DR7100 CSI CS750 CPS HAM2000 R4.00.27: CS750, CS751, CS800, CS801 Tytera MD380 Radio Programming Software V1.29.0, V1.30.0: MD380, MD390 Typtera MD390 → edit [MD380] section in .ini file: WindowTitle=CPS MD-390. Then select MD380 as CPS Retevis RT3 Radio Programming SW, V1.30.0 Hytera PD365 Hytera Customer Programming Software, V1.04.03.003.EM5: PD365, PD375

CS700 Analog audio drop outs

CS750 Analog audio drop outs

I have a CS750 that was upgraded from a CS700.  Ever since it has been a CS750 now using the latest firmware there are random audio dropouts when monitoring an analog channel.  It sounds like there is a scan priority enabled but I have none of those items enabled and it will happen when parked on a channel with scan turned off.  It is random in timing also, it will receive well for a minute or two sometimes with no drop outs then it will start with the drop outs every 5-10 seconds.  Anyone else experiencing symptoms like this?



Amateur Radio Users Support Group
AmateurRadio@groups.io
https://groups.io/g/AmateurRadio 



Connect Systems
https://groups.io/g/ConnectSystemsDMR

How to update Contacts in the CS-700 codeplug

Here's the writeup I did for our club as an intro, in case it works for anyone else.

Radio ID Database

Every DMR ham has a Radio ID assigned to them by DMR-MARC, which is where this database comes from.

(Request link is here: http://www.dmr-marc.net/request_subscriberID.html) This same Radio ID can be programmed into all your radios, since only one will Tx at a time. 

It’s maintained by a team of guys that do a great job with really fast turnaround on updates and new registration.  The whole database is here:

http://www.n6dva.org/trbo-database/trbo_users_view.php

Filter the Listing

Go to Filters and set up:

State -- Equal to -- California

or whatever fits your most common users.

Nice!  Fresh up-to-date data.  Unfortunately, there’s no Export, so we have to improvise..

Export

Click “Print Preview” to simplify the HTML a bit.

Today that gives me 514 records.

Save the web page as HTML (I use Chrome if it matters).

Save it as "trbo_users_view.php.htm"

Scrape the Data

Now we have to extract the RadioID & Callsign entries from that table.

I have attached a small Perl script that does it (scrape.pl), but you can cut & paste text into Excel or work whatever awk/sed/python magic you like best.  There is an earlier writeup on how to use Excel-fu to extract the right parts from cut & paste, but I like the Perl approach for speed.

The goal is to get to a .CSV file as

RadioID#,Callsign,Firstname

Save the resulting .CSV file.

Merge with Codeplug

Then you run G4EML's CS700 Contact Manager app, load your CS-700 codeplug into it, and “Delete to End” to remove all your existing contacts.  (Keep your actual talkgroups, of course).

Import the CSV, and bam – everyone’s listed by callsign and name.  Save and program to the radio.

It sounds like a lot of steps, but it’s less than a minute from start to finish.


DMR-MARC CSV Contact Generator
 http://kd0wdq.com/getcsv.html

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