everge™ & amateur radio michael lozano, kØnga december 7, 2013
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eVerge™ &Amateur RadioMichael Lozano, KØNGA
December 7, 2013
Agenda
• Concepts• Software & Firmware• Programming Basics
▫Contact List / RX Group List
▫Channel List▫Channel Groups
• Other Settings▫Buttons! Buttons!
Buttons!▫Frequently Used
Features• Differences from
MotoTRBO
Concepts - eVerge™
•Newer line of DMR radios from Vertex Standard
•Different that VXD series (rebranded Motorola)
•Commercial Radios
•Follow DMR standards
•Can be used on RMHAM and DMR-MARC TRBO
networks
Important Note - Analog
•eVerge™ Radios are analog capable
•Software assumes commercial use
•Most Ham analog use is wideband, commercial now
narrowband
•USA version of the software is narrowband only
•eVerge™ Radios can be programmed on Ham wideband
analog channels using the international version of the
software
• I’m not a lawyer; proceed accordingly
Software & Firmware
•Freely available from Vertex Standard (requires
free account)
•Programming cable & radio adapter cable
•Programming cable has a comm port driver
•Firmware package includes update utility
•Sample configuration files available
Programming Basics
•Install cable driver (once)
•Plug in cable and note the comm port number
•Update firmware (when new, and occasionally after that)
•Install & run programming software
•Configure comm port
•Download & open appropriate sample configuration file
•Change Radio ID in Digital Common settings
•Download to the radio
Firmware Update
Contact List / RX Group List
•Contact List contains Talk Groups and User IDs
▫Must be configured in the Contact List to be used
•Tag (a label) limited to 8 characters
•RX Group List used to determine which Talk
Groups are received on each channel
▫Typically 1 TG per RX Group for ham radio
•“Private” IDs used for Radio ID recognition
▫Private calls not used in ham radio
Contact List / RX Group List
Channel List - Digital
•TAG (limited to 8 characters)
•RX & TX frequencies
•Repeater Code
•Time Slot
•Contact No. (Talk Group)
•RX Group List (matches Contact Number)
Channel List - Analog
•W5 – Ham radio wideband
•TAG (limited to 8 characters)
•RX & TX frequencies
•Sub Audio – Decode & Encode
▫C- for CTCSS
▫D- for DCS
Channel Groups
•16 channels per group
•Number of groups determined by radio model
•Scan settings per group entry; Group Scan per
group
•Channels selected from the Channel List; TAG
automatically populated
•Group name can be changed
Channel List / Channel Group
Buttons! Buttons! Buttons!
•Buttons have to be programmed before they will work
•Common – Key Function
•Number of programmable buttons different on each model
•Popular programmable features:
▫Channel Up/Down
▫Group Up/Down
▫Scan, Group Scan, Follow Me Scan, Dual Watch
▫Set
▫Talk Around
Key Function
Misc
•Mic Gain – typically needs to be boosted•Talk Around – set per channel on the channel list•RX Power Save – set per channel on the channel list•Priority Channel 1 – global, effects some scan and button
functions•Priority Channel 2 – one per Channel Group, effects
some scan and button fuctions•Default Split – Set to -5, useful for building your own
config files•Talk Back – allows for talking while paused during
scanning•Dimmer Level – mobile radio only, turns on LCD light
Differences from MotoTRBO
•No roaming
▫But five (Count them! FIVE!) types of scanning
•Contact list limited to 128 entries
▫Not possible to include all RMHAM or DMR-MARC
entries
•Display limited to 8 characters
▫Typical of Vertex Standard / Yaesu radios
