Successful #DMR QSO with Tom #N8TJ on Michigan #TG3126 .
The #W8RP UHF DMR repeater is about 3 miles due south of here (Wolverine Tower or "WoTo"), and I'm on the 3d floor in a building with brick walls next to a bunch of other buildings with brick walls. Yet with all that obstruction the reception was just a little bit glitchy (0-3% error rate) and reported 100% copy.
The other piece of that good news is that I don't need to build a second DMR hotspot to have coverage here.
QSO just now with Ed #W8EO via DMR #TG3126 (Michigan). He is for a long time affiliated with the MSUARC ( #W8SH / #W8MSU ) amateur radio club on the MSU campus.
Club home page is at https://www.egr.msu.edu/msuarc/ and Ed reports that there's a Discord server running as well (not listed on that page).
cc @w8lt @k8vsy for general Big Ten campus radio club awareness
Catching the end of the MichiganONE #DMR net, on Brandmeister #TG3126 (the main Michigan talk group carried by many DMR repeaters in Michigan). Net run tonight by Dustin #N8RMA .
https://www.michiganonedmr.net
Check-ins this week from various folks in lower and upper Michigan plus Arizona and Florida.
I guess I am a founding member of this net? (because I happened to find it and check in the first month of its options).
Ed W8EMV 