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MD380 codeplug

Given there is a new DV gateway on 70cm near my QTH I wanted to add it to the MD380. The first issue is I had completely forgotten how! Remarkably, the radio has plenty of battery so it was duly plugged into the Windows PC via the TYT USB lead. The TYT software failed to find the radio and on checking Device Manager it showed no driver. Off to the web to find one. Nope. I found a link to nowhere, found a driver that didn't work, and another which would not even install. By now I was beginning to remember things about code plugs... Off to the Linux box then. I found Editcp with with that I found my memory! I had used this before but DMR isn't really my thing these days so it sort of fell off the disk when I upgraded PCs a couple of years ago. Anyway, Editcp found the radio without fuss and downloaded it. After remmebering all the places one needs to add stuff to add a single chanel I had oen set up for the new local gateway. But I can't get in... perhaps it is just too far. I tried via…

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