BridgeCom Official Blog

September 16, 2019 Jared Farouki

Spanish 3-Step DMR Guide
Know someone that speaks Spanish and wants to get on DMR?

We've got you covered with the DMR 3-Step Guide that has been translated into Spanish.

Send them this link to help them get on DMR!

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July 19, 2019 Jared Farouki

Why can't I see the channel I programmed in my AnyTone?
Cody from BridgeCom Systems, and I'm going to be showing you today how to add a channel for a local repeater to your standard DV MEGA codeplug that ships with your Plug 'N Play package.
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July 18, 2019 Jared Farouki

How to update the firmware on the AnyTone 878
Hi everyone, this is Cody from BridgeCom Systems, I'm going to be showing you how to update the firmware on your AnyTone radio. Now, this is going to be specific to the 878 and the 878 PLUS, and possibly newer versions, but currently, this is what it applies to.
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July 17, 2019 Jared Farouki

How To Change the Transmit Power on your AnyTone
Hi, everyone. This is Cody from BridgeCom Systems. In this video, I'm going to be showing you how to adjust the power level on your AnyTone radio. As you can see here, there's no way to actually change the power level right now, of the transmit power. There's a variety of reasons why you might want to do this. First up, open up your programming software, in this case, this radio is using, I believe, it's 111. We've got the software open here. Now go into optional settings and go to a key function.
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July 15, 2019 Jared Farouki

How to Add Local Repeaters to your DMR Plug and Play Package
Hi, everyone. This is Cody with BridgeCom Systems and in today's video, I'm going to be showing you how to add local repeaters to your new plug and play package. Now, this is really easy to do. You just have to install the CPS, and we're going to program up to a new zone so you can have all your local repeaters right in your radio. So, if we go over here to the actual radio itself, we can see right now the only zone in here is your DV MEGA zone. So, we can change the channels on there, but we don't have any other repeaters and there's no way to really add them in.
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July 9, 2019 Jared Farouki

How to reinitialize your AnyTone 868/878
Hi, everyone. This is Cody from BridgeCom Systems, and in this video, I'm going to be showing you how to reinitialize your radio. So this will apply to the AnyTone 868, 878, 878 PLUS, and probably future radios. But that's what it applies to at this point in time.
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June 6, 2018 Daniel Kochanowicz

The Internet Of Digital Radio By Onno VK6FLAB
The topic of how radio evolves and embraces available technology is one that describes the hobby itself. From spark-gap through AM, SSB, and FM our community picked up or invented solutions to make communication possible.

When the internet came along it too became a tool ripe for picking and in 1997 a connection between a radio and the internet was made with the Internet Radio Linking Project or IRLP when Dave VE7LTD, a student at the University of British Columbia, joined the UBC Amateur Radio Society. Using a radio, some hardware, and a computer, you could send audio between...

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March 14, 2018 Daniel Kochanowicz

The Most Exciting Era in Amateur Radio -- the Merging of Radio with Computer/Internet Technology by Reg, VE7IG
We are now in one of the most exciting, if not the most exciting, eras in amateur radio. This is due to the successful merging of radio with computer technology (including internet). So many new things are happening all at the same time. Some have been around for a while but are just now seeing usage peaking way up. One of these is IRLP. Most repeater systems have a standalone IRLP node where, as long as the internet is up, you can talk to hams around the world through your local repeater.

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