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Maintenance Event

The evening of January 3rd to early morning of January 4th one of our servers will be physically moved. You may experience a disruption of network service during this time period (Approx. 11pm – 5am) but repeaters should remain available for local usage.

Network Issues

Update: Functionality appears to be restored. We will post further updates if warranted.

One of our hosting providers is experiencing an unplanned downtime. They are in the process of troubleshooting the issue with on-site staff. We will post a notification when more information becomes available.

Special Olympics coming up

Operators supporting the Special Olympics in the Richmond area will be using Timeslot 1 on the Richmond and Petersburg repeaters during the days of June 7– 10th. All traffic on Richmond Local (TG 27500, TS1) will be managed by Special Olympics Net Control during this time.

Accordingly, all Talkgroups on Timeslot 1 will be unavailable for general amateur use during the duration of the Special Olympics nets. Please QRX but feel free to use VA Statewide (3151) and PRN (2) on Timeslot 2 as per usual.

Again, this only affects the Richmond and Petersburg machines. All other machines on the DMRVA network will be unaffected.

Thank you for your understanding during this important event.

DMRVA to BM linking

UPDATE: All links appear to be restored as of 5/29/2018.

At present all links between DMRVA talkgroups and BM talkgroups are out of service. Traffic on the Statewide talkgroup will be limited to users on the DMRVA repeaters. This also impacts several local area talkgroups (Roanoke, Richmond) that have extended linking. Tac 310, DCI Bridge and others remain in service. As soon as we hear from BM and have an idea of what change they have made, we will post an update.

Richmond local talkgroup and BM link

The link between the Richmond Local (and Petersburg local) to the two brandmeister repeaters in the area is currently out of service. It will be several days before the link is restored due to technical issues. Richmond, Petersburg and Portable Local all remain linked at this time.

Dynamic / PTT talkgoup reminder

Our friend Nathan, K4NWJ from the PRN system recently sent along the following reminder that we can all use.  Consider the impact of your transmission on others, and listen before you transmit.

When you're accessing PRN Chat 1, Chat 2, Tac 1 Tac 310 or 
whatever dynamic tg for the first time, and you need to PTT to 
start up the group, please just a momentary key. It can often 
take up to 45 seconds for you to 'hear' what could be currently
going on in a talkgroup. When you key up a PTT TG (whether repeater 
or hotspot) and give your call, name, and qth, you're very often 
talking over the top of people involved in a conversation. 

I agree, it's tough, you had it beat in to you not to 'kerchunk' a 
repeater, but with DMR just blindly transmitting for a bit on 
your first activation of the TG is usually very disruptive.