Top 10 DMR HT Radios
By NC ScoutPublished On: August 5, 2021Categories: AP Staff, Comms11 Comments on Top 10 DMR HT Radios
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NC Scout is the nom de guerre of a former Infantry Scout and Sergeant in one of the Army’s best Reconnaissance Units. He has combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He teaches a series of courses focusing on small unit skills rarely if ever taught anywhere else in the prepping and survival field, including his RTO Course which focuses on small unit communications. In his free time he is an avid hunter, bushcrafter, writer, long range shooter, prepper, amateur radio operator and Libertarian activist. He can be contacted at [email protected] or via his blog at brushbeater.wordpress.com .
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I’ve been reading up on these hard lately. Aes256 is available on the btech branded version of the anytone finally, so that’s in the running for whatever I end up with.
Yup!
I wasn’t able to get the Btech 6X2 with 2.04 firmware to operate with the Anytone 878IP, 878IIP, and 578 with AES. The Anytones all good with 64 bit hex keys.
Fun thing about the anytones – it’s a software lock in them that locks them into a certain freq range. You can actually change that to allow them a much larger range, and since the mobile version and the handheld seem to run similar software, you can even get the HT to tune to the 1.25m band that supposedly only the mobile works on – I haven’t tried Txing on it though, since it wasn’t designed for it.
Yup. Transmit works fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlp_KfzLWDE
If you want to use the 578 mobile for TOC powerwerx makes a nice enclosure dc power supply. The 578 will also act as repeater / cross frequency / DMR to analog bridge
Yes!! We did this in class out in Wyoming. Outstanding unit.
Can you tell me more about making a 578 into a repeater? Does it have a function to rebroadcast what its receiving?
Bridgecom does some good instructions – 578 cross band repeater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWVJnGThduA
I’ve been going all in on the anytones. Im hoping at some point baofeng will support aes256 and work with the Anytone.
One issue with the Anytone is the screen. Its basically always on and can’t really be blacked out at night. I keep it in a pouch, but im worried it will still be a beacon under night vision.
You can change this in the settings. Use a computer to program and you’ll spot it under “options”