DMR status updates as of 3rd January 2023

Status update on changes for VK-DMR and Brand Meister networks  for VK (Australia) region.

Using DMR – VK DMR this is link to VK-DMR Supported TalkGroup listing.

 Note : VK-DMR is still gatewayed to Brandmeister equivalent TG's

VK-DMR  TG's 3801, 3802, 3803, 3804, 3805 & 3807 all on TS2  gateway respectively to

Brandmeister TG's 5051, 5052, 5053, 5054, 5055 & 5057 as respective State TG assignments

IPSC2 Dashboard Index (vkdmr.com)  VK-DMR Repeater dashboard, currently 57 repeaters connected.

IPSC2 Dashboard Index (vkdmr.com) VK-DMR Hotspot dashboard, currently 268 hotspots connected.

Note: VK-DMR now has some gateways into the Fusion Repeater network.

Repeaters | BrandMeister Brandmeister Repeater dashboard, currently only 11 licensed repeaters in VK, being VK2RAY, VK2RCM, VK3RAH, VK3RBA, VK3RHD, VK3RSV, VK3RUT, VK4RDB, VK6RDM, VK6RLM &  VK7RCR

Hotspots | BrandMeister Brandmeister Hotspots dashboard, currently 252 hotspots connected.

LastHeard | BrandMeister Brandmeister dashboard  "Last Heard" list of user activity.

BrandMeister Talkgroup List - pistar.uk this provides the full list of Brandmeister TG's worldwide, for VK refer to 505x and 505xx TG's

That was interesting comparing VK-DMR versus Brandmeister devices in VK (Australia)

57 x VK-DMR repeaters, compared to 11x Brandmeister Repeaters, 

whereas hotspots is pretty similiar with 268 on VK-DMR compared to 252 on Brandmeister.

Keeping in mind the structure and usage is quite different between VK-DMR and Brandmeister  networks. Each network serves a different purpose, don't try and compare one as being better than the other.

VK-DMR is repeater oriented, linking groups of repeaters in various combinations, but with no PTP TG's, whereas Brandmeister is not repeater focused, but has individual repeaters, but primarily is supportive of PTP connections and multi-mode gateways, including digital to analogue.