Hearham.live DMR Radio Listener
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Hearham.live DMR Radio Listener
Traditional ham radio communication often involves leaving a radio on to a frequency or a local repeater, where you listen for a buddy to call you. Well, that can be annoying if 10 different users and lots of kerchunks interrupt the general silence on the frequencies from time to time.
Hearham.live is a new experiment building a listener to alert via SMS text message whenever a call sign is used on the radio.
Previously a SDR with voice recognition was required to set up, and no one successfully set this up yet - in my own experiments while building it I found it to really not work so well with any static on the radio, and problems with voice recognition.
DMR however has a digital listing of call signs as they call in to the system through one of hundreds of repeaters around the world. This requires a DMR capable radio (such as the AnyTone D868UV or Radioddity GD77) programmed to listen to a local hotspot/repeater.
You can see a recent list on the computer. And with the new DMR listener you can listen for a call sign of someone instead of keeping your radio on all the time listening.
Supplies
Internet access
Phone w/ texting
Register DMR Radio and Register
To set up your DMR radio, you will need an amateur radio call sign set up on:
https://www.radioid.net/ - your number will be programmed in to your radio when set up on a local repeater.
Register on https://hearham.com/register to add your callsign listener (and, optionally comment or receive updates about repeaters in your area through the repeater listing).
Choose what you want to listen on here - https://hearham.com/browse
and fill out the form.
Listen / Debugging
Step 2: Listen (that is, wait for a message). This is an experimental service and not guaranteed to be fully accurate or timely, but do give it a try and contact contact@hearham.live or through the provided error report forms in the system if you notice issues!