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Hidden “Factory setting” screen in the new GD-77 CPS version 3.1.0
Examining the new Radioddity GD-77 CPS (Version 3.1.0) I noticed a new screen called Factory Setting I initially tried using the usual passwords to see if I could access this screen but neither of the...
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LiPo battery charging from a 1W 5V solar panel
In my previous post, I reviewed some “5V 1W” solar panels, with a view to using them to power some IoT devices, and in this post I’ll show my experiments and conclusions about using the panel to charge...
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Radioddity GD-77 DMR transciever – initial observations
I received a Radioddity GD-77 Digital Mobile Radio, handheld transceiver, as a Christmas present, for use with Ham radio, and have spent several weeks setting it up, and working around its various...
View ArticleBeta GD-77 CPS and Firmware v3.1.0???
I few days ago, I posted about what I understood to be the new GD-77 CPS and firmware, version 3.1.0 However it soon became clear that the version I downloaded, was not an official release, and would...
View ArticleInteresting data recovered from the GD-77 external flash memory
As part of my ongoing effort to fully understand the Radioddity GD-77 and perhaps eventually fix the firmware bugs that Radioddity don’t seem to be fixing, I have been looking at ways to potentially...
View ArticleList of Radioddity GD-77 bugs
With the release of the new beta firmware for the GD-77 they seem to have fixed a few bugs but also introduced a few new bugs, and as I can’t find a comprehensive list elsewhere, I thought I may as...
View ArticleUpdates to the Community GD77 CPS
Guys I’ve updated the ‘development’ version of the Community CPS...
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Building a Amateur radio DMR contacts list – Attempt #1
UPDATE. The DMR Last heard system is currently unavailable, so I will take my pages offline until It comes online again [Original Article starts here] One cool feature of Amateur radio DMR, is...
View ArticleRadioddity now helping with the GD-77 Community CPS
Some good news…. @lion (aka @lxa520), the programmer at Radioddity who wrote the official GD-77 CPS, has got in touch with me, and highlighted a few bugs in their code and also one in my code. I don’t...
View ArticleRadioddity GD-77 CPS 3.1.1 officially released
Radioddity seem to have officially released 3.1.1 of the CPS and firmware as its not their download page https://www.radioddity.com/radioddity_download/ Looking at the “Update diary” document in...
View ArticleRadioddity GD-77 firmware 3.1.2 Beta ?
Just when I thought the new Radioddity beta process with the latest round of GD-77 firmware had come to the end, I started to get reports that another update had been sent to Beta testers (version...
View ArticleRadioddity GD-77 Community CPS for firmware 3.1x
Guys As some of your already know, with the help of Colin G4EML, I’ve published a Beta (development) version of the GD-77 Community CPS to support firmware versions 3.1.x. This covers firmware 3.1.0...
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GD-77 Community CPS Beta 3.1.x seem OK for general release
The Beta version of the community CPS has been in use by many people, without any new bugs being reported, so I’ve decided to copy the exe to the main section of my github repo. Anyway, who just...
View ArticleCommunity CPS not downloading contacts because of outage at hamdigital.org
I noticed recently that the Download Contacts feature in the GD-77 Community CPS, did not seem to be adding any new contacts. This seemed odd to me, so I investigated the problem, and it the data feed...
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New beta version of the GD-77 CPS
Over the last couple I’ve been working on a new version of the GD-77 CPS, to add several new features, and as there are currently problems with the Contacts download system from Ham-digital.org, I...
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New European data collection laws seem to outlaw ham-digital’s ‘Last heard’...
I don’t know whether this is definitely why the ham-digital “Last Heard” page now longer seems to display up to date data, but recent changes to the law in Europe look like they now prevent...
View ArticleReset you links to the GD-77 CPS downloads!
Now that the Community CPS supports both version 3.1.x and version 2.0.5 of the codeplug, I have decided to rename the GitHub repo where the sources are kept. The new name of the repository is...
View ArticleArchive of GD-77 firmware uploaded to GitHub
Because Radioddity do not seem to maintain an archive of all the firmware versions that they have released for the GD-77 I have decided to add those files an existing GitHub repository I created some...
View ArticleGD-77 CPS in Solvenian
Thanks to Savo Luzar the GD-77 Community CPS has now been translated into Slovenian I notice that the one key language that we don’t have a translated version is French. So if anyone would like to...
View ArticleGD-77 CPS now also Ukrainian
Thanks to Sergey Ka, I have now added Ukrainian language support to the GD-77 Community CPS I’ve also moved all recent changes into the master version, because no one has reported any issues with the...
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