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Who’s Calling? Setting Up the Digital Contacts List
Whenever you transmit on a digital channel, the BTECH DMR-6X2 sends not only what you said, but also your Radio ID (also sometimes called your DMR ID). This allows stations who are receiving your transmission to know who’s transmitting. Likewise, when you receive a transmission, you’re also receiving the Radio ID of the station transmitting. That ID is shown on the radio’s display, along with the talk group.
In addition, the BTECH DMR-6X2 can also display the name and callsign of the amateur who made the transmission. It does this by looking up the Radio ID in the Digital Contacts List. Current DMR-6X2 firmware supports up to 200,000 listings. Each listing includes the callsign, name, and location for each radio ID.
To use this feature, download the current full worldwide contact database (CSV) from the BTECH DMR-6X2 Software and Firmware Repository. The file uses the standard AnyTone/BTECH DMR contact-list format. Because the full worldwide database can contain more records than the radio’s 200,000-contact limit, open the CSV in a spreadsheet or CSV editor and remove or filter records you do not need before importing it. Do not rename the column headings or delete required columns.
For refreshed downloads and optional pre-filtered lists, use the AesApp Digital Contact Lists page.
To make this data part of your code plug, do the following:
- On the main menu, click Tool → Import to load the .csv file.
- Click on Digital Contact List and select the location of the downloaded DB file.
- Select Import at the bottom of the screen. At this point, the programming software will begin to import the data in the .csv file. Note that because of the size of the database, it may take upwards of 5 minutes to load the data.
Once loaded, you can view the data by selecting Digital Contact List from the menu on the left.
Finally, program the radio with the Digital Contact List. When writing data to the radio, a box similar to the one shown at left will pop up. To include the Digital Contact List, check the appropriate box. Check the “Other Data” box when you want to read or write the other codeplug parameters as well. Since the Digital Contact List is now so large, it can take five minutes or more to upload or download, but you only need to do this when you’ve downloaded a new database or have made manual changes to the database.
Comments (4)
How do you access the Friends List from the radio to contact those who are on that list?
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Can someone please provide a link to this file AmateurRadio.Digital DMR-6X2 Digital Contacts Wizard (FREE)”, it is not showing on the update page.
Hi John — the older AmateurRadio.Digital wizard is no longer part of the current workflow. The article and DMR-6X2 repository now link to the current full worldwide contact database. Because the full list can exceed the radio’s 200,000-contact capacity, download it, edit or filter the CSV to the records you want without changing the required column headings, then import it in the DMR-6X2 CPS and write the Digital Contact List to the radio.