

Not with a straight answer mind you, but a roadblock: Will you permit/support this?”įinally Artem came back to me. Not a yes, not a no, not a statement of policy. Not an answer on behalf of the core development team as to whether they support the actions of the USA team. Rather, appeal your execution to the executioner and don’t bother me. This is not exactly an answer in keeping with the amateur radio objectives of mentoring and experimentation. “Promote a positive image of BrandMeister” Policy number 9 for master server operators is: The team running Brandmeister has a published list of policies. It seems that the leaders of this project could better comply with their own policies. Their image is not looking too shiny to me right now. The Brandmeister devs were the freedom fighters.Īuthor Dan Posted on JanuJanuCategories Radio Tags Artem Prilutskiy, Brandmeister, Corey Dean, DV4mini, Extended Routing, N3FE, R3ABM, Reflector 11 Comments on Will Opaqueness Kill Brandmeister? Brandmeister USA Team Kills DV4mini What happens next? What if someone decides that MMDVM boards made in China or Kenwood repeaters or you fill-in-the-blanks are not to their liking and decides to ban them? It is ironic that the Brandmeister project sprang up because of the closed nature of the DMR-MARC C-Bridge networks which preceeded them. While investigating why my DV4mini stopped working on the Brandmeister network, I learned that the USA team disabled reflector access. Reflector 4999 is needed on the Brandmeister DMR network to take advantage of extended routing. I note a comment from Corey Dean (N3FE) on the Brandmeister USA Facebook group back in October that states, “DV4MINI and reflectors are disabled on all US masters.” This shows what I believe to be the true intent of disabling reflector access, although the DV4mini is not specifically mentioned in the Brandmeister USA wiki. He later makes comments about this freeing up talkgroups in countries whose codes start with 4. However, there is no code assigned to a country that starts with 499, so extended routing could still be allowed and not interfere with any Asian or Middle Eastern nation that wants to jump on the Brandmeister wagon. So, DV4mini users in the USA who connect to one of the 4 master servers (3101, 3102, 3103, and 3108) now need to resort to connecting to a server outside of the USA.ĭissatisfaction and requests for reconsideration to allow extended routing should politely be directed to Dan Posted on DecemDecemCategories Radio Tags Brandmeister, Corey Dean, DV4mini, Extended Routing, N3FE, Reflector 6 Comments on Brandmeister USA Team Kills DV4mini November DV4mini Image Update #Dv4mf2 software code I’ve been able to run the Brandmeister XTG Dialer on Windows 10 by following this procedure. Visit the PyGTK FAQ page and fully read 21.1.

I installed the following items referred to in the FAQ:
