Quick Bring Up of AnyTone 868/878

David Hull, KC6N

Apr 14, 2020

The aim of this document is to help a new Anytone
868/878 owner get his/her new DMR radio up and
running quickly. You will learn how register and get a
DMR ID, how to load and operate the CPS (Customer
Programming Software), read and write to the radio and
load a code plug. Many ham clubs that operate DMR
repeaters, provide code plugs for users in their local
community. The Anytone AT-878UV is used in these
examples but much of this is abpplicable to the AT-868
as well. 2
⚫A PC Running Windows 7 or later
⚫An Anytone AT-D878UV Radio
⚫Fully charged battery
⚫USB Programming Cable
⚫The Radio Software and the USB Driver
⚫ http://www.connectsystems.com/software/top/D878UV.htm

⚫A DMR ID: https://www.radioid.net/register#!

⚫A Code Plug File: www.papasys.com 3
⚫Unpack radio and charge the battery
⚫Download and install the USB driver (may not be
needed for Windows 10)
⚫Download and install the CPS
⚫Connect the USB cable to your radio
⚫Connect the other end to your computer
⚫Turn on your radio, wait for the computer to
acknowledge the USB connection. 4
⚫Launch the CPS
⚫Set your serial port.
⚫Read the radio and save the Original Code Plug.
⚫Load the new code plug into the CPS
⚫Set your DMR ID (you can get a DMR ID at:
https://www.radioid.net/register#! )
⚫See screenshots on following pages
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 1. Before you can do anything with the
UV-878 you have to set up the serial port.
Click “Set COM” under the Set Pull-down.
2. Select the com port for your radio from
the options provided in the pop-up. Note that
your radio needs to be connected and
powered up.

NOTE: Mine is usually COM12 but this will depend on your computer. You may want to try this
with your radio off and note the com ports present. Then turn the radio on and do it again. The
correct port should be the new one that showed up. You may need to install a driver. 6
 1. In CPS, Click “Read From Radio”
2. Click, OK, and follow the dialogs

3. Click “File”, “Save As”, give it a name like

“20190218_YourCall_AT-878_VirginCP”. Now you
have a record of the un-programmed code plug for
reference. 7
⚫Locate a code plug that you like
⚫Download from a web site
⚫From a friend's radio
⚫Write from scratch
⚫The following pages show how to:
⚫Add your DMR ID
⚫Save your (now customized) code plug
⚫Flash the new code plug into the radio. 8
Select “Radio ID List”
under “Digital” in the
tree
Add Your DMR ID and Call Sign to the list.

You can add as many as you like, but only one can
be active at time. You will select which one via a
menu option from the keypad. This is an AnyTone
UV-8x8 series unique feature which is sort of nice.

Once you have done this, save your new code plug and write it to your radio
as shown on the next slide. 9
 1. In CPS, Click “Write to Radio”
2. Follow the dialogues

3. Save your new code plug. Give it a name like

“20190218_YourCall_AT-878”. So you have a copy of
the code plug for reference and further customization.
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⚫At this point, you may run into the pop-up shown on
the right below – not to worry.
⚫This simply means that the band
plan your radio expects to see and
the one your code plug was built for
are not the same – This is easily
fixable as shown on the next couple
pages. If you don’t get this error, you
are good to go.
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 Select “Model” and then select “Model
Information” from the dropdown. To bring
up the information panel shown below.

Make note of what it says in the second row in

the “Frequencies” section. In this case it shows The radio will need to be changed to
that this code plug expects to see a radio in the match. See next page.
“Commercial Europe Mode: 00000”
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⚫Make sure your analog channels work
⚫Pop onto California (or other active talk group)
and ask for a radio check.
⚫If you have loaded a pre-built code plug, then
you are done – enjoy your radio!

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Part II
Code Plug management concepts

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 Group Call ID List Channel List
Requires:
Talk Groups, 1. Group Calls
(Populate First) 2. Scan Lists
3. RX Group Lists

Scan Lists
(optional)
Zone List
(Requires Channels)
RX Group Lists (optional)

Private Call ID List

(Populate Last)
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Start: Populate User Info. Create Zone Lists
(DMR ID, Name, Callsign) (group as desired)

Create Group Call List Populate the empty Scan Lists

(Talk Group List) created earlier

Create Dummy Scan Lists Customize buttons, Tones,

(we’ll fill them in later) Opening Screen, etc.

Create RX Group Lists Save Finished Code Plug

(optional) Write Code Plug to Radio

Create Channel List Test: make sure channels,

(Analogs and Digitals) scan, RX groups etc. work

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 Channel list panel
Folder Tree You will create and configure your channels here

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 Click “Talk Groups” in the
menu tree as shown and add
your group call ID’s as
shown to the left. If your
radio is un-programed you
will need to add the ones
you need. Otherwise it will
have some entries as shown
here. You will reference this
list when you program your
channels.
Click “Talk
Groups” Example: Group Call
North America, Call ID (TG)=3

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 Available Included in
Channels Woodson
“Scan Group”

Each channel may reference a scan list (but doesn’t have to). A
scan list is a list of channels that will be scanned when a channel
referencing that list is selected (and “scan” is enabled).

A scan list generally scans a collection of channels within a

specific zone and can include both analog and digital channels
and a mix of channels from different repeaters. Most of the time it
will pick up channels from a given repeater as shown here for
PAPA Woodson. There may be a limit to how many channels your
radio can have in a given scan group (16 is not uncommon).

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Channels are displayed in spreadsheet form in the AnyTone CPS. A channel definition pop-up will appear
if you double click on a line in the channel table. If the line is blank, you may create a new channel, if it is
populated, you may edit the information for that channel. This will be shown on the next two pages.

Click Channel Double Click channel entry to open edit window

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 Double click on a
populated channel
in the channel list and
RX Frequency This dialog will appear.

TX Frequency Channel Name

Channel Type TX Prohibit,
Talk-around, etc.
TX Power Level
Channel BW Area pertaining to digital
channels is grayed out
Scan List
Admit Criteria

CTCSS (PL)
setup Info.

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 RX Frequency Channel Name
TX Frequency Talk Around
Analog/Digital TX Contact
TX Power Level (Talk Group)

Bandwidth DMR ID or User

Admit Criteria
Scan List Repeater Color
Code
Double click on a RX Group List Channel
digital channel to bring
up this dialog. Timeslot
Digital Channel Info
Note that the Analog
Channel Specifics are
greyed out for digital
Channels.

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 Click “Zone” in the folder tree
to bring up the zone list as shown
Double click on a zone
to bring up the “Zone Edit”
dialog, PAPA Edom (Palm
Springs) is shown below

Highlight items in the available channels

list on the right and use these arrows to
move channels to the zone list and back 26
The AnyTone AT D878 is unique in that it separates Group Calls (Talk Groups) and Private Calls
(Radio ID’s) into separate databases. Private calls associate a radio ID with a call sign (and other
information) as shown below. This radio can hold up to 160,000 private call ID’s which is quite a lot.
Obviously, you cannot enter all these by hand so an automated methodology is required (and exists).
However, you can add, move and edit by hand if need be. Use of this list is optional. If you don’t care
to see caller ID info, you can leave it empty – many users do.

Click “Digital Contact List” Typical “Private Call” entry.

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Part III
Code Plug management concepts

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⚫The workflow for code plug creation is:
⚫Enter your User ID (Section II)
⚫Enter the contact data (specifically the talk-groups).
Private calls are optional.
⚫Create a blank Scan List and a blank Zone
⚫Create the channels for the zone
⚫Populate the Zone and Scan Lists
⚫Configure the programmable buttons
⚫Remember to save periodically 29
Part IIIa
Code Plug Management Concepts
(Creating and Managing Group ID’s)

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⚫Contact information determines how your radio
interacts with the DMR network
⚫Contacts come in four flavors:
⚫Private Call: Calls to (or from) single radios (your
“Contact List”)
⚫Group Call: Calls to Groups of users (your selection
of Talk Group ID’s)
⚫All Call: Not usually used in Ham Radio
⚫Broadcast Call: Not used in Ham Radio 31
 The “Virgin” form, has
the single default
entry shown here.

2. Double Click any entry

(or blank line) to get the
Talk Group edit dialog.
Enter or Edit the TG info
then click OK or Next.

1. Click “Talk Groups” to get the

Talk Group entry form.

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⚫We will add the following contacts to a “virgin”
code plug:
⚫Talk Groups: Local, PAPA, SoCal, SoCal1, Cal
3106, CA 1, Zone6, Bridge, NoAmer, World,
TAC310, BM Parrot GC, Direct 99 and San Diego
Hangout.
⚫This will allow us to create Channels, as well as
Scan and Zone Lists
⚫We will use the PAPA system TG profiles 33
The talk group ID for the
San Diego Hangout TG is
310014

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1. Open the Talk Group entry form.
2. Double Click on an entry line to
edit an existing entry. Double click
on a blank line to create a new
entry.
3. Right click any entry to bring up a
menu of management options

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Step down through the list,
double click each line, Fill in
“Name”, “Call Type” and
“TG/DMR ID” for each entry
as shown here.

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Final list showing the talk groups to be used in this exercise. This
is enough to create all of the PAPA repeater zones. If you are
outside SoCal, your list will be different. Contact your local club
or local repeater owners for the talk group profiles for repeaters
in your local area. 37
You add and manage Private Call ID’s (Radio ID numbers) the same way
you do Group Call (Talk Group) ID’s but there is an automated way to do
this which we’ll cover later. As you see here, there will be lots of these. It is
an immense database, with ~160k entries. AnyTone provides an automated
methodology for this.

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Part IIIb
Code Plug management Concepts
(Adding Channels)

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⚫We did Group Calls first since we need these for the
digital channel definitions
⚫We do the channels next since they have to be in
place in order to define the Zone and to finalize the
Scan lists.
⚫We will create:
⚫The PAPA Woodson zone,
⚫A Hot Spot zone, and
⚫Analog and Simplex Channels 40
⚫Before we create the channels, we need to
create a placeholder for their scan lists
⚫We will create the following two scan lists to be
populated later:
⚫PAPA Woodson
⚫ZumSpot
⚫At this point you should enter your DMR ID as
described in Section II 41
 1. Double Click on the
default entry and rename
it PAPA Woodson
2. Add a second entry and
call it ZumSpot

Make sure that there are a

Click on “Scan List” couple channels in there (or it
won’t save)

Move channels into the

“membership list” (and out)
using these buttons. It doesn’t
matter which at this point.

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Your scan should now look like this, with two “dummy” scan
groups as shown. We will reference these when we create
channels and populate them later.
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⚫We now have a dummy scan list for each zone
(but haven't populated them yet)
⚫We will create channels for two Zones
⚫PAPA Woodson (448.520 (-) Color Code 1)
⚫HotSpot (438.250 (Simplex) Color Code 1)
⚫We will then proceed to build the Zone lists and
populate the Scan lists that we just created.
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⚫The TG Setup for PAPA Woodson is shown in the table
below:

The talk group ID for the

SD Hangout TG is
310014

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⚫We are going to create 14 digital channels for the
PAPA Woodson Zone as follows:
⚫We will make one master channel which will have
the pair Frequencies, Color Code, Scan Group,
Power level etc.
⚫We will then replicate this “template channel” 13
more times
⚫We will then edit each of these channels, to add the
Name, Time Slot and TG ID 46
⚫The blank channel form is shown below

My “virgin” radio already had a few channels populated as shown above. These are
examples. You can copy and paste from these or create your own. For the
purposes of this discussion we will leave these and create 14 new ones of our own,
starting at line 10.
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 3. Edit the page as
shown:
• Color code = 1
• Scan List=PAPA
WUD
• RX = 448.520
• TX = 443.520
• Power Level = High
• TX Admit=Color
Code
1. Select the Channel • Time Out=180 sec
entry form. • Parameters should
2. Double click row 10 match here
to launch the channel • Click “OK”
Information dialog.
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⚫Add Placeholders for the 14 channels

3. Right Click on “Row 11”

4. Click “Insert” to insert a copy of the Row 11
information (the Woodson template)
1. Right Click on “Row 10”
5. Repeat this until you have 14 rows created
2. Select “Copy” from the
as shown on the next page. I added an
pulldown 49
extra one just in case.
You should have 15 channels which are all the same (except for the
auto-assigned names) you will now edit each, providing the proper name, talk
group and time-slot to match the PAPA channel profile shown earlier. 50
Make Woodson Local:
• Set Channel Name = “Local
WUD”
• Set Contact = “Local” (click the
button then double click the
correct TGID from selections)
• Set Repeater/Time slot = “Slot
2”

Do this for all 15 of the channel

place-holders that you created
So that each channel has a
unique name, references the
proper talk group and correct
TDMA time slot.
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Your final channel list should look like this. Double check all the channels. Name,
TS, TG should be correct. This would be a really good time to Save your file
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Add Analog Repeater (PAPA
11 Otay) Double Click Position
25 And fill out the pop-up as
shown. 53
Create the Analog Simplex
CH (449.52 MHz) Double
Click Position 26, fill out the
pop-up as shown. 54
Create a DMR Simplex
Channel (441.125 MHz):
Double Click Pos 27, fill out
the pop-up as shown. 55
Part IIIc
Code Plug management Concepts
(Populate the zone and scan lists)

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 2. Rename Zone 1 to
PAPA Woodson

3. Highlight and remove

the existing channels
from the current member
list using the “remove”
(<<) button.
4. Select each WUD
channel and “Add” it to
1. Click “Zone” and then the Woodson Zone using
Double Click “Zone1”. the “Add” (>>) button.
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PAPA Woodson Zone

Channel A and B will

appear in the main
display when the
zone is selected

Zone editing tools

Zone Editor showing

the final contents of
the PAPA Woodson
Zone
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 2. Highlight and remove
the existing channels
from the current
member list using the
“remove” (<<) button.
3. Select the desired
WUD channels and
1. Click “Scan “Add” it to the Woodson
List”, click “PAPA Zone using the “Add”
Woodson” to open (>>) button.
the Scan List
dialogue 59
1. Scan List name: “PAPA
Woodson”

2. Scan Group members

here. Note that the order is
not important for scan.

Note that there are not too

many channels to be
scanned – this is on
purpose to make it fast.

In the AT UV-878, most of

the time you will use the
monitor functions rather
than scan (IMO).
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Part IIId
Code Plug management Concepts
(Overview: Adding a hotspot zone)

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⚫The steps to create a HotSpot zone are the same as
for any other zone except:
⚫The TX and RX Frequencies are the same.
⚫The CC is 1 and the Time slot is “2”
⚫You don’t program “Local”
⚫You may not want to program “PAPA”
⚫You can scan your hot spot zone and have analogs if
you like.
⚫We’ll just show the completed screens 62
 1. Create a digital
channel
2. Set Scan List to
“ZumSpot”
3. Power=Low
4. RX and TX Freq to
your choice (I
chose 438.250)
5. Admit=CC Free
6. Un-check
“Talkaround”
7. Set CC=1
8. Set TS=1 or 2*
9. Replicate this as
before.
* Note: Check which is best for your brand of HotSpot 63
1. Edit Name: “HS
SoCal”
2. Edit TX Contact
to: “SNARS”

3. Repeat for all 12

channels with correct
name and TG ID
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 Zone Name: “ZumSpot”
appears here
Create and populate a zone
for your ZumSpot the same
way we did for the woodson
zone.

Select the channels to

include from the panel on
the left and use “>>” to
move them over to the
member panel on the left.
Use the up/down buttons to
Populated Zone List adjust the order. 65
Scan List Name: “ZumSpot”
appears here (Remember, we
created it previously).
Populate the scan list as
previously shown. Order isn’t
important. I usually scan
static TG’s only (and not very
many at that).

Scanning is something that

these radios don’t really do
that well and the monitor
function is a very effective
alternative. 66
Part IIIe
Code Plug management Concepts
(Contact List Maintinence)

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⚫We will populate the Private Call “Contact
List” as follows:
⚫Go to: http://amateurradio.digital/#wizard
⚫Follow the instructions on the site (next
page) to generate .csv file You may need to
open an account.
⚫Import the .csv file into your radio using the
tools provided in the CPS. 68
 Go to: http://amateurradio.digital/#wizard

Option 1: Use the

“Digital Contacts
Wizzard”,
Choose your
radio and follow
the step-by-step
instructions.

Option 2: Select
ready made file if it
is provided here.
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 Go to: https://kf5iw.com/contactdb.php

This is an
alternative
source for the
Private Call
Contacts file.

Select the newest

file here, download
and unzip.
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From the “Tools”
drop-down, select
“Import” to bring up
the “Import” dialog.

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Click “Digital Contact List” and navigate to the newly created CSV file. It should have a
name something like: “contacts_20190219060901.csv”
Click the “Import” button at the
bottom of the dialog box. And wait
for the “Import Complete” pop-up. At
which point you are done. You can
check the contacts section in the cps
to make sure that they are there, if
you like. Save your code plug.

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 In CPS, Click “Write To Radio”
and follow the dialogs
The progress bar
will take several
minutes for a
large contact list

Make sure “Digital Contact List” is checked. This tells the CPS to copy the Digital
contacts (which takes a while). Other Data is the code plug info. You can do either or
both. In cases where you only care about the code plug, just check “Other Data”.
Things will go a lot faster. 73
Part IV
Code Plug management Concepts
(Setting up Roaming)

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⚫Identify your roaming area and determine the
repeaters you want to roam over
⚫Create channels for those repeaters
⚫Collect those channels into a roaming zone for that
area
⚫In “Options Settings”, select the “Auto Repeater” tab to
configure roaming.
⚫Your radio will automatically find a usable repeater for
you if one is in range. 75
⚫You can have multiple roaming “zones”
⚫This allows you to implement profiles to support
different roaming scenarios.
⚫For example: you can have a profile for coastal
California, another for central California, another
for local, etc, etc.
⚫Here we’ll make a single zone for the PAPA
system. But you can create as many roaming
zones as you need. 76
Set up your roaming channels
as shown on the left. You will
enter the Frequencies, Color
Code and Time Slot for a block
of repeaters that you want to
roam over. Here I have set up
the entire PAPA network.
Double click an entry row to
bring up the entry dialog.
Note: Setting “Slot” to “No Use”
tells the radio to use the slot of
the currently selected channel.
Right click any row for the usual
management pop-up.
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Group your roaming
channels into a zone as
shown. Double click on a
row to launch the entry
edit dialog shown here.
Highlight desired roaming
channels from the list of
available channels on the
left. Move these into the
right hand channel
“membership list” using
the “>>” key. If you make
a mistake use the “<<“
key to move channels
back. 78
 The roaming mode
settings are found in
“Optional Settings” on
the “Auto Repeater” tab.
This page shows my
recommended settings.
You can control most of
Roaming Mode these from the radio
Settings keypad and adjust them
to your taste. Note:
“Repeater Check” and
“Auto Roaming” need to
be “ON” (but you’ll do
that from the keypad).
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 Repeater Check (must be ON for roaming*), determines
how often to check the roamed repeater and the number of
times to check it.
These determine how radio alerts you when scan starts
and how long the alert stays up.
“Auto Roaming” (must be ON for roaming*) enables
traditional roaming. Other settings here determine the
roaming start condition and the interval that roaming is
initiated etc.
Sets the default zone (can be changed from keypad)
and what is displayed when the roam cycle completes.
Here is set “Roaming Channel” so I know what it
roamed to.

*Note that I leave “Repeater Check” and “Auto Roaming” = “OFF” in the code plug. I will turn
them on from the keypad when I want to use roaming. 80
1. From the menu, select
“Roaming”
2. Select “One Time Roam”
3. Wait for the radio to find a
channel it can hit.
4. You will see “Search Success”
once the radio is done.
5. If the search fails, the radio will
tell you that as well.

This is good if you just want to

roam once. Or, if your “Return
Channel” = “Roaming Channel, it
will tell you which repeater is best
where you are at.

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This is how you would normally
use roaming as you travel. It will
automatically locate the optimal
repeater for the channel you
have chosen.
1. From the menu, select
“Roaming”
2. Select “Auto Roaming”
select ON/OFF and turn it
“ON”
You will see “Roaming Please
Wait” followed by “Search
Success” once the radio is done.
A green “R” will appear in the
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display status line at the top.
You also need to enable
“Repeater Check” so that it will
check the “roamed to” repeater
periodically to validate it’s
connection.
1. From the “Roaming” menu,
select “Repeater Check”.
Then “On/Off”.
2. Select “ON”
You will see “Roaming Please
Wait” followed by “Search
Success” once the radio is done.
A green “R” will appear in the
display status line at the top.
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⚫The radio periodically (based on the “Repeater
Check Interval”) “pings” the chosen repeater,
assuming “Repeater Check” is “ON”
⚫If the “ping” fails, or if the “auto Roaming
Interval” expires (depending on the roaming
start condition setting), the radio will step
through “Roam Zone” channels, pinging each
one until it gets a response. 84
⚫You can initiate a single shot “Roam” on any
roam zone in the manor shown.
⚫Once set up, you can enable roaming by
turning “ON” both “Auto Repeater” and
“Repeater Check”.
⚫Similarly, you can disable roaming by turning
“OFF” both “Auto Repeater” and “Repeater
Check”. 85
Part V
Code Plug management Concepts
(Setting up Digital APRS)

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1. From the “Tool” pull-down,
Click “Options”
2. In the resulting pop-up, make
sure that the GPS and APRS
boxes are ticked as shown
below.
3. Click “OK”. This will add the
APRS option to the option tree

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1. Select “Optional
Settings” from the
tree on the left
hand menu tree.
2. Select the “Digital
Func” tab.
3. At the bottom of
this tab, make
sure that SMS
Format is set to
M-SMS

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1. While in “Optional
Settings”,
2. Select the “GPS
Ranging” tab and,
3. Set GPS to “ON”

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 1 1. Open the APRS
3 configuration dialog
2 shown here from the left
hand menu tree.
2. Set “Manual TX Interval”
= 30 s, Turn “APRS Auto
TX Intervals” to OFF so it
doesn’t beacon.
3. Configure at least one
channel in the “Digital”
section at the top right.
You may configure up to 8
of them.
4. Set APRS TG to 310999
5. Set Call Type to “Private
Call” 90
1. Go to the channel you set
for reporting channel 1. In
this case it was “ZS3
CA3106”
2. Set the APRS Report
Type = “Digital”
3. Set Digital APRS PTT
Mode = “ON”
4. Set the Digital APRS
Report Channel = 1 to
reference the setting in
the APRS set-up panel.
5. Do this for each channel
you set up in the APRS
setup.
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1. Verify that your GPS is
locked (Icon should be
Red). If it is blue you will
need to wait for it to find
GPS lock. You may need
to go outside and walk
around or wait a bit.
2. Set your radio to one of
the channels set up for
APRS.
3. Key your radio and look
for the “Sending Digital
APRS data…” Response.
4. Check your position at
https://aprs.fi
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Part VI
Code Plug management Concepts
(Bells and Whistles)

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 Select the “Key
Function” tab to set
the function of the
Programmable Key various buttons on
Buttons the radio.
Function
This is my setup,
Click pull-down to
but you can do
expose options
whatever makes
sense to you.

Consult the manual

for specific button
locations.
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 This page allows one
Alert to program a different
Tones set of alert tones which
affect the sounds that
the radio makes as it is
used.

The setup here makes

the AT UV-878 sound
like a Motorola
XPR7550 (which is
nice since it still
doesn’t “cost” like one).

Thanks to Brian,
KC2GNV for working
this out.
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The “Other” tab
provides a number
of radio functions
that you may want to
adjust to suit your
taste. One of which
is the Time Out timer
which will cut you off
after a
predetermined talk
time.

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The “Display” tab
provides a number
of options allowing
you to customize
how the radio
display operates. I
have the backlight
delays set to always.
There are a lot of
things you can
twiddle here to
customize your
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The “Power Save” tab
provides an option set
your to turn itself off
automatically after a
predetermined period
of inactivity. This is a
handy feature not
generally provided on
“commercial” radios.

You can see that I

have this one set to
shut off after two hours
of inactivity.
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 1. Select “Tool”
2. Click “Boot Image”
3. The “pop-up” below will appear

Select “Open Image” to bring up a file browser window. Point this to a JPEG file of an image
you want to use as your boot image. Click “Write” to write this image to the radio. You can also
use a binary file, in which case you would click “Open Bin” then select “Write” to write this
image to the radio. This image will come up whenever you turn your radio on. You can save a
standby image as well. 99
Here is an example of a .bin image available on the
PAPA web site.
Here is an example of a .jpg image shot with a
Canon 5DIV and worked in Lightroom. If you take
this route, crop it to 8x10 landscape to fit the
128x160 pxl screen. There are no limitations as to
color.
There is one more step, after this which is that
you will need to go into “Optional Setting” and on
the “Power-on” tab, in the “Power-on Interface”
pull down, select “Custom Picture”

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 1. Select “Tool”
2. Click “Firmware Upgrade”
3. The “pop-up” below will appear

Note: The radio

must be in FW Flash
mode for this to
work. Hold down the
top button and PTT
while turning the
radio on.
Select “Open Update File” to bring up a file browser window. Point this to the desired FW upgrade
file. Something like D878UV_V1.10_2018-12-21.spi. Select the file and click “Open”. The file name,
Model and Version will appear in the pop-up window. Make sure these are correct, then click “Write”.
Once the write process completes, your radio will re-boot. Verify the new FW version in the radio
menu.
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Thanks and back to Net Control.

Dave Hull, KC6N

dhull1@san.rr.com
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⚫ 02/19/19: Corrected p70 to show contact list csv file import coming from “Digital Contact List”
instead of “Radio ID List” as shown in the graphic for the in the original 02/16/19 version.
⚫ 02/26/19: Extensive revisions to section IV (Roaming) to simplify the scheme and to clarify
operation. Added this revision section.
⚫ 04/13/20: Added Section on the band error issue at the end of part 1.
⚫ 04/14/20: Rewrote section 1 to read a bit better after including the info on the At_Options.exe
applet.

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