Brandmeister DMR TalkGroups for VK & ZL as of September, 2025

 Brandmeister DMR TalkGroups for VK & ZL as of September, 2025.
Here are some  talkgroups for Brandmeister DMR network, some bridged to VK-DMR Network, some are some gateway ports setup by clubs and groups going to different networks, usually DStar.

505  National Calling Talkgroup for VK
5050 >> XLX500 G Reflector
5051 bridged to 3801 VK-DMR
5052 bridged to 3802 VK-DMR
5053 bridged to 3803 VK-DMR
5054 bridged to 3804 VK-DMR
5055 bridged to 3805 VK-DMR
5056 bridged to 3806 VK-DMR
5057 bridged to 3807 VK-DMR
5058 bridged to 3808 VK-DMR
50520 >> BMARC Net Monday 09.30utc
50521 >> IARS Chat
50525 bridge to P25 and NXDN Networks
50526 >> CCARC
50529 >> XLX500
50566  WICEN
50590  >> VK2HK Wires-X
50591  >> VK2GP Wires-X
50592  >> VK3KAY Wires-X
50594  >> VK2RFG 
505205  >> XLX500
5052110  >> XLX500

ZL TG's :
530  >> XLX299
5301  ZL1 Regional
5302  ZL2 Regional
5303  ZL3 Regional
5304  ZL4 Regional
53020  was used  for XLX626
53021  >> IFROAR  (Rotarians)
53029  >> XLX299 X
53050  >> XLX751
53060  Taupo ARC
53085  >> XLX299 >> AllStar Bridge
53099  >> XLX750

VK-ZL-Pacific:
95

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VK-DMR and P25 Activity for VK & ZL as of 25th September, 2025

here is some screenshots to show some of the typical activity on VK-DMR and P25  talkgroups covering VK & ZL,  recently noting a few ZL's appearing on P25 mode which is  good, as the P25 gateways and talkgroups for ZL had basically faded away or turned off.

VK-DMR

 

P25 TG10700

P25 TG10400

P25 TG10401   Note: this is APAC/WICEN TG, but being used by stations from China.

Brandmeister talkgroup 530 ZL National Call

On Brandmeister DMR, one of the talkgroups I monitor is TG530, I keep hearing this strange white hash sound and bits and pieces of conversations and its randomly occurs,  including some drunken americans talking jibberish, I just never bothered to stop and try to figure what it was, I usually turn down the volume until it goes away again. 

This time I stopped to pay more attention, took note of the ID  and realised it was only one ID involved 530047, looked it up on the Brandmeister website, it comes up as ZL2AWW, showing two hotspots, then I  monitored the Heard list, its all sorts weird things going on, as if it tied to a gateway and a cluster in USA, strange behaviour for a ZL Call channel.

Its odd, with squeals and artifacts of digital transmissions and bits of one sided QSO's, sometimes maybe hear both sides and one american I recognise on several occassions comes up with some slurred words, god knows what he saying, I guessed he is pissed. Then I  realised it was coming from WW TG91

The two hotspots have different SSID's, and showing different frequencies, so I dont think the hotspots are relaying to each other, but at 600kHz away, and if operated in close proximity to each other they may interfere with each other. So it looks to be bleedthrough from one hotpot 53004721 txing locally, being received by the second hotspot 53004701 and it is broadcasting to TG530

Pi-Star DMR Configuration Options for Static TalkGroups

 I was playing around with my Pi-Star configuration, with defining Static TalkGroups under DMR mode, I had added 11 x TG's in the TS1, and found the last couple were not there, meaning that I didnt see or hear any activity in the Activity (heard list) on the Pi-Star Dashboard for two of the 11 defined static TG's.  I tested with another radio, to test each TG defined, to find that TS1_10 and TS1_11 dont work, I trimmed the string back to 9 and it all working.

Did some Google searches to find that it is true,  each TS can have maximum of 9 x static talkgroups.

DMR+ Dynamic Talk Groups - forum.pistar.uk

In the Pi-Star Forum it says  you can have 9 x static TG's defined under TS1 and 9x static TG's defined under TS2.

another DMR network

 

I discovered there is another DMR network out there,  this one called FreeDMR, looks to be based out of the UK. It has talkgroups for Australia 505 and 5050  and for New Zealand  it has TG530. It is aimed at opensource development and experimentation.

FreeDMR – Open Networking. Reaching out to the World.

VK-DMR Network updates - January 2023

 Begin forwarded message:

From: "VK3TE via groups.io" <vk3te=bigpond.com@groups.io>

Subject: Re: [VK-DMR] Changes to the VK-DMR Network

Date: 29 January 2023 at 10:11:55 am AEDT

To: <VK-DMR@groups.io>

Reply-To: VK-DMR@groups.io

Good Morning All

For Hotspots this will have NO Impact to you as you set your TG’s that you want to listen to.

The Link from the Repeater Server to the Hotspot server to pass the TG’s will NOT change

So what ever is on the IPSC2 Repeater server will still pass the TG’s to the Hotspot Server

 

The Phase 2 all you will have to do is move the TG 380x to TS 1 Now and the same to reprogram your Radio for TG 380x to now use TS 1 (Time Slot 1)

 

Now for your Promiscuous Mode, we keep telling you that your Hotspot could hear another TG, and with your Radio is programmed to Promiscuous Mode it will jump to this TG, and if your Hotspot hears another different TG it will jump to this TG and your radio will follow and you do not know what you could be listening too, this happens a lot when listening to the TG 5 Broadcasts, and you then try to talk back to the person and you are now on a different TG.

 

This has been reported many times and even watching the VK-DMR IPSC2 Hotspot and Repeater Dashboards many of these promiscuous mode users are on the wrong TG when trying to talk back

 

As this is your choice we keep telling Amateurs that Promiscuous mode is not a good practice

 

You should be setting the TG for RX and TX for each channel you have programmed to your Radio, as the Hotspot just listens to what it is set to, and will follow what your Radio is sending to your Hotspot.

 

Anyway the Phase 2 of Changers will be coming to make it easier for all to use moving forward and the TG 8 for each Region will be removed and replaced with a New Set of Fixed TG’s and the TG 10008 to 90008 that is TG 8/1 to 8/9 will be replaced with a all New Set of TG’s you will need to check on the VK-DMR Network Web Site at https://vkdmr.com/

 

Peter Brennan

VK3TE & VK4SPB

current TalkGroup allocations supported on the VK-DMR network as of August 2021

 

Slot 1	Slot 2
TG1 – worldwide	TG505 – all VK repeaters and hotspots
TG13 – worldwide English	TG3801-8 – state-based TG (trailing number=call area)
TG113/123 – User activated chat channels world wide – used for DX	TG3800 – chat channel
TG53, 3809 and 3810 – chat channels	TG9990 – Parrot (use slot 1 for hotspots)
TG8 – keys repeaters in defined groups – i.e. all Sydney, FNQ, all Melb, etc.
TG9 – keys your local repeater only
TG3 – US wide
TG30 – JOTA
TG5 – nets/broadcasts only
TG8409 – CQ UK WIRES REF 4409
TG8541 – Quadnet
TG8638 – US TAC 310
TG8851 – South Pacific REF 4851
TG1910 – AR NSW repeaters
TG1911 – Links FNQ repeaters only
TG1921/1922/1923 – Scout Victoria repeaters

The TGs are explained in detail   on the VK-DMR website

Using DMR – VK DMR

updated C4FM / YSF / Wires-X Talk Group Summary

corrections for :  AU NSW VK2 Chat  and   AU TAS VK7 Chat entries

C4FM  / YSF  Talk Group Summary

YSF001 Reflector  - YSF001   >   XLX389D

AU CQ-VK  Reflector  - YSF24117  >  VK-Wires-GW

50525  Bridge  - YSF06015  >   BM 50525, VK3GWY, P25

CQ-VK Wires-X – YSF38900 > AU YSF001

AU Albury Chat – YSF73082

AU NSW VK2 Chat – YSF43110

AU TAS VK7 Chat – YSF05057 > BM TG5057

XLX389 – YSF22381

XLX500 – YSF49716
XLX505 – YSF85857 > VK7HSE gateway.

XLX750 – YSF32748     (ZL Reflector)

XLX751 – YSF41007     (ZL Reflector)

FCS00114  - Repeater Australia

YSF00001 - Echo Test

VK Brandmeister and VKDMR Talk Groups

It difficult getting an updated list of DMR and other digital mode talk groups,  as I mentioned in the past blog entries, with  the VK DMR channels getting changed on a regular basis, it was too hard keeping up,  but now the changes have stabilised and far less frequent, I slowly building up a list for myself, so I can update the codeplugs for my MD-380 and GD-77 handhelds.

Anyway, the most comprehensive list I found came from Adrian VK4TUX's Info page from his MultiMode Reflector/Gateway site,  which covers DMR, NXDN, P25, YSF, D-Star modes.

From here,  I started a document based on Adrian's list, adding, modifying it whilst experimenting. My primary interest in this is connecting with friends using other modes, (D-Star and P25) from my DMR devices.  Note: this list is geared primarily around VK hams (Australia-Oceania)

DMR  Talk Group Summary for VK

 (colour code=1 for all)            >  means  'linked to'

VK BrandMeister Talkgroups 

(BrandMeister Server 5051 VK)   Colour Code =1 (for all)

505  : Australia  call channel    Time Slot 1 ;   > TG4805

the following are all Time Slot 2 ;

5050 : XLX500 G    > TG4806             (formerly XRF500 D)
5051 : Australian Capital Territory   >   VKDMR 3801
5052 : Australia - New South Wales   >   VKDMR 3802
5053 : Australia - Victoria   >   VKDMR 3803
5054 : Australia - Queensland   >   VKDMR 3804
5055 : South Australia   >   VKDMR 3805
5056 : Western Australia   >   VKDMR 3806
5057 : Australia - Tasmania   >   VKDMR 3807
5058 : Australia - Northern Territory   >   VKDMR 3808
5059 : gateway to VKDMR-Room  > VKDMR TG3809
50501 : XLX389 A

50503 : XLX389 C

50510 : XLX510 D   > VK2GWY

50521 : IARS chat    (Illawarra ARS – VK2RUW)

50525 : P25 Bridge  >  VK3GWY, AllStar, P25, NXDN, YSF

50526 : CCARC (Central Coast ARC-VK2RAG-VK2RTG)

50531 : VK3 chat 1 (alternate to 5053)

50533 : SPARC (Southern Peninsula ARC – VK3BSP)

50539 : Nex-Gen

50566 : WICEN

50590 : VK2HK-2 Room  > Wires-X(24011,24012)
50591 : VK2GP-ND  > Wires-X (14066)
50592 : VK3KAY-Room  >  Wires-X
50593 : XRF740 C  > YSF001 Wires-X

50594 : VK2RFG Room  > Wires-X Node(14327), Wires-X Room(24327)

50599 : XLX389 D  > YSF001, NXDN505, P25TG4

BM DMR Dashboard

Online Audio BM Hoseline

Other Brandmeister Talk Groups on Time Slot 2
91 : WW call (WorldWide)

92 : EU call

93 : NA call

94 : Asia call

95 : ANZ call

907 : JOTA

973 : SOTA

9990 : Echo Test

VKDMR Network Talk Groups

1 : WW worldwide call  TS1

5 :  VK net channel    TS1

8 :  State linked repeaters TS1

9 :  local TS1

13 : WW English TS1

113 : User Defined TS1

123 : User Defined TS1

133 : USA  call  TS1

143 : UK call TS1

153 : South Pacific  TS1

505 : VK call channel  (repeaters and hotspots) TS2

3800 : all VK repeaters TS2

3801 : VK1 Repeaters TS2  >  BM 5051

3802 : VK2 Repeaters TS2  >  BM 5052

3803 : VK3 Repeaters TS2  >  BM 5053

3804 : VK4 Repeaters TS2  >  BM 5054

3805 : VK5 Repeaters TS2  >  BM 5055

3806 : VK6 Repeaters TS2  >  BM 5056

3807 : VK7 Repeaters TS2  >  BM 5057

3808 : VK8 Repeaters TS2  >  BM 5058

3809 : regional rptrs TS1  >  BM 5059

3810 : regional rptrs TS1

9990 : Echo Test  TS1 for hotspots, TS2 for RF to repeaters

These are STATIC TG’s,  no dynamic TG’s

99 :  VK simplex (439.200 and 146.650)

Deprecated TG’s :

2 : Oceania

9 : DMR+ TS2

91 : WW 91

100: Tech talk

4400 : UK link

4401 : UK link

VKDMR Dashboard - Repeaters  http://rpt.vkdmr.com/

VKDMR Dashboard - Hotspots    http://hot.vkdmr.com/#