Category Archives: Show & Tell


This update is long, long overdue. The network backend, and really the whole repeater network has seen a lot of changes since the diagrams were last updated. First off, the Topeka and Bashor machines were sold, and the Lawrence was Read more…


You know the routine. It’s 2019, and which of us doesn’t go out and trawl around on eBay for repeater parts or commercial radios? I wanted to take a moment and outline why you get what you pay for, and Read more…


We at KS-DMR really like to do things right. We’re all about clean installs and top-quality equipment. Two of our favorite things are the Repeater-Builder STM32-DVM MMDVM Modem and the Motorola MTR2000 repeater. The MTR2000 is a really awesome package. Read more…


KS-DMR’s network back-end is hosted, for free, by the Kansas Research and Education Network (KanREN, Inc.). These guys have a multi-100Gbps backbone network and handle some pretty amazing stuff for the public universities. But I don’t like to look a Read more…


I’ve heard comments about an area DMR group with XPR8300s that have PA’s so questionable the sysops yell at people for using them. And others continue to struggle with the performance of the Yaesu DR series repeaters. Not KS-DMR. In Read more…