On February 15th, DMR coverage in the greater Toronto area just got even more amazing with the debut of the VE3UHM DMR repeater in Hamilton, ON. The VE3UHM DMR repeater, which is located on a 305 m (1,000 ft) broadcast tower in the southeast area of the city, joins VA3XPR …
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The Motorola MOTOTRBO XPR 7550 I.S. is the Intrinsically Safe version of the popular Motorola MOTOTRBO XPR 7550 DMR portable radio that is only available in the Canadian market. This unit features best in class audio, integrated GPS, a multicolour LCD display, plus much more. This is an excellent single band …
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On January 24, 2015, the VA3XPR DMR repeater was relocated from its original home in the Toronto neighbourhood of St. Jamestown to a new home in downtown Toronto. At its new home, the VA3XPR repeater joins a number of other ham radio repeaters, including three 70cm FM repeaters (VE3YYZ, VE3NIB …
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We here at VA3XPR receive messages from hams all over the world and we greatly appreciate all of your feedback and stories relating to this wonderful hobby we call ham radio. Recently, we received a message from John Yaldwyn, ZL4JY of Waikanae, New Zealand regarding their impressive DMR range tests …
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The Motorola MOTOTRBO SL300 is one of the latest additions to Motorola’s MOTOTRBO line of DMR radios. This unit is slim and light weight, making it ultraportable and a great shirt pocket radio for the ham that only needs a limited number of channels and limited battery life or low …
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On October 29th, ham radio DMR reached an important milestone by adding its 10,000th user ID, making it one of the fastest growing digital modes within the ham radio community. DMR, which is short for Digital Mobile Radio, is a published standard for digital voice communications by the the European …
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So what is the maximum range that one can achieve with DMR? There has been much discussion about this on the on-line forums, since there is a physical limit as to how far two DMR stations can communicate with one another, given that DMR is based upon the Time Division …
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With competition heating up in the DMR market, RCA removes the covers from its new PRODIGI™ line of value priced DMR radios, featuring a weatherproof design and an industry leading 4-year warranty. On July 30th, RCA Communication Systems announced the launch of its new PRODIGI™ line of value priced DMR …
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Interested in learning more about DMR, but would like to talk to someone first? Have a new DMR radio and want to learn more about using it? Then join us for a coffee (or a cola) and lots of DMR conversation during DMR Newbies Night! We’ll have lots of DMR …
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On June 9th, the US Federal Communications Commission, commonly known as the FCC, officially approved the use of Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), the modulation type used by Digital Mobile Radio (DMR), for ham radio use. In FCC Decision FCC 14-74 issued on June 9, 2014, the FCC outlined its …
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