United States of America (Redirected from USA)

United States of America
MCC Prefix	310-320
Coordinators	N3FE W7XM,
Website	https://brandmeister.network/

Master Server Information

Master	Domain	IP Address	Location	Donations
3101	3101.repeater.net	107.191.99.14	New York, New York	LINK
3102	3102.repeater.net	74.91.114.19	Dallas, Texas	Donate
3103	3103.repeater.net	74.91.118.251	San Jose, California	Donate
3104	3104.repeater.net	162.248.88.117	Chicago, Illinois	Donate

Announcements

05/08/2021 - 3101 Removed from Pi-Star DMR Connections - 3101 will no longer be an option for users in Pi-Star please choose another master server to connect to.

04/23/2021 - Decommission of BM3101 Server - View Announcement PDF.

Support

To contact the team or request for technical assistance please utilize one of the following options to contact us,

Submit a Ticket Request: BM USA Support

Telegram: USA User Support or General Worldwide Support

Email: dmr-admins@repeater.net

Subscribe to General Announcements and Notices: BMUSA Groups.io

HoseLine

Please note that HoseLine is not operational. Any existing links will dead-end.

Hotspot Configurations

Users connecting hotspots to BrandMeister USA Servers will be required have a Selfcare account and to set their hotspot security password as of Dec 11th, 2020.

Hotspot Security Password Setup Instructions - news.brandmeister.network.
Frequently Asked Questions - Hotspot Security - pdf document.

Timers

Master Servers control two main timers for system usage. Holdoff (handoff) Timer and On Demand (Dynamic) Timers.

Hand Off Timer (Hold off) is set for 5 Mins on USA Master Servers. This timer function will hold off all other talk groups on a Time Slot when a user activates a talk group and will hold of the other dynamic and static talk groups on a Timeslot for a period of 5 minutes.

On Demand Timer (Dynamic) is set for 15 mins on USA Master Servers. This timer function provides for when a user keys up a dynamic talk group and will stay active for a period of 15 minutes. Once the timer exceeds this time the dynamic talk group will drop off.

Not Supported on USA Masters

Reflectors

Reflectors are disabled on all the USA Masters. The associated talk groups for reflectors should be used instead of reflectors. These also means the DV4Mini and extended routing will no longer function. Other masters outside of the USA may accept these connections.

DV4Mini USB Stick - Read on!

The USA Master servers 3101. 3102. and 3103 will no longer support the DV4Mini in its reflector form as of January 2018 however the new software from xreflector.net provides the capability for DV4Mini to accept TalkGroups.

TeamSpeak Cross Linking

Use of TeamSpeak to cross link to any USA Master is prohibited. TeamSpeak is an application/server that allows for audio communications using VOIP (Voice Over IP).

All of the US Master server owners decided among themselves that they do not want any part in facilitating other amateur radio operators to knowingly or unknowingly break the rules that the FCC have made for us to abide by, these are the same rules that you sign to agree to after you successfully pass an amateur radio examination.

Zello Cross Linking

Use of Zeollo to cross link to any USA Master is prohibited. Zello is an application that many people use on their phone. Zello is a commercial application that allows people all over the world to communicate using VOIP (Voice Over IP). Zello is a commercial venture and that does not meet the needs or requirements of an amateur radio station. The FCC requires an amateur radio station to have a control operator that is always monitoring the communication traffic of the licensee's radio station. The FCC also requires us to Identify every 10 minutes and to announce any 3rd party traffic that emits from our control station. When a user connects to a Zello user cross-linked system and is not an amateur radio operator, they are in violation of the FCC rules by operating on an amateur radio frequency without a license and you, the control operator is breaking FCC rules by allowing the 3rd party unlicensed traffic to use your station. It is no different than a member of the public buying a ham radio and talking to his buddy thinking that they are talking on a fancy CB radio station. The FCC is not amused by the lack of knowledge of the FCC's rules and regulations and they are not afraid to fine anyone that breaks their rules.

All of the US Master server owners decided among themselves that they do not want any part in facilitating other amateur radio operators to knowingly or unknowingly break the rules that the FCC have made for us to abide by, these are the same rules that you sign to agree to after you successfully pass an amateur radio examination.

Discord Linking

Use of Discord to cross link to any USA Master is prohibited. TeamSpeak is an application/server that allows for audio communications using VOIP (Voice Over IP).

All of the US Master server owners decided among themselves that they do not want any part in facilitating other amateur radio operators to knowingly or unknowingly break the rules that the FCC have made for us to abide by, these are the same rules that you sign to agree to after you successfully pass an amateur radio examination.

Bridging to USA Master Servers

Supported Bridging

USA Master Servers support the bridging of CBridge, OpenBridge, XLX Interlink , YSF Client, Wires-X, IMRS and NXDN Client. Using MMDVM Bridge/client (Peer connection), typically used with HBLink, to Bridge Talk groups are not supported and should request one of the following supported bridges if needing to bridge between network/systems. For example, to Bridge HBLink Server and BrandMeister use of OpenBridge is the proper way to link to talk groups between the two systems.

Talk Groups

USA Master Admins will only provide 31X, 330, 370 MCCs links. If requiring a link to a talk group which does not fall in the USA MCCs you will need to contact the host server admin of the country the MCC is in. For CBridge CC requests please contact USA Server Admin teams if requiring a talk group from another MCC.

If requesting a Statewide talk group (4 digit) please review the list below (Talk Groups), if it shows as hosted by another network we will not be able to provide the state wide talk group(s).

TAC 310-319 may be used for general conversation. Remember, these are Tactical talk groups and NOT call channels! There should NOT be any nets on these talk groups. If you want a net, please use 31001 and 31002.

Global Talk Groups, any 9x, such as 91, 93 will not be provided for bridging to other systems/networks with the exception of CBridges.

Re-Bridging any BrandMeister Talk groups to another network will result in your link being terminated.

OpenBridge

Please limit your requests to 10 talk groups. We will only provide 5, 6 and 7 digit talk groups at this time.

Creation of Talk Groups

Talk Groups are only labeled for 3, 4 and 5 Digit IDs. Due to the limited number of 5 Digit IDs available we are no longer labeling any new requests for 5 digit talk groups at this time. Please use your Radio ID (7-digit) or if you have a repeater your Repeater ID (6-digit) as your talk group. Although the 6 and 7 digit IDs will not be labeled they can be used immediately without Master Admin Approval. (in the new API, no release date at this time, repeater sysops will have the ability to label their 6-digit repeater ID in the repeater dashboard.)

Cross Links

There are to be NO cross-links/cross-mode/bridging of any type on any State-Wide talk groups, Tacs 310-312, or USA Nationwide 3100. It seems people like to experiment and this is NOT the place to do it. If you need to test, please use your personal DMR ID as a 7 digit group call (talk group). We are a guest to those talk groups.

TAC (tactical) Channels

TAC 310 - 312 are bridged between different networks so that communications between different networks are possible. Please allow time between each transmission to allow others to also use the talk groups. When a users on a cbridge activates a talkgroup, they will not hear anything until the next transmission starts.

TAC 310 - 312 should NOT be used as a primary talk groups by anyone! USA Nationwide 3100 should be used for that. If you wish to have longer conversation, that is what the TACs are for. Not to initiate a conversation.

Update July 6th 2019: The TAC channels can no longer be made as static talkgroups. The TACs were being used as call groups, which they aren't. We have also removed the auto-static option on the hotspots. This means they will time out after a duration of time.

Nationwide 3100

This is the main talkgroup for the United States. All are welcome but we do ask if you are a foreign station to please make contact and move to a tac talkgroup. Talkgroups have labels for a reason and we do not want this turning into a World Wide talkgroup like talkgroup 91. There is to be no cross-links / cross-modes of any type to this talkgroup unless using an OpenBridge or Cbridge connection.

Statewide Talk Groups

State talk groups should be used as call channels or short conversations of 10 minutes or less. Most states have chat or tac talk groups of their own that you may used for longer discussions. Many repeaters carry their local statewide talk groups as static talk groups. Please be courteous and remember how many repeaters you may be keying up when using a statewide talk group. If you are using another statewide talk group and are not in communications with someone else in that state, please be courteous and move to a different talk group Statewide Talkgroup usage should use true dmr only. There should be no bridging of any other modes to ANY statewide talkgroup.

Talk Groups

A complete listing of all talkgroups can be found by clicking here.

Number	Slot	Name	Notes	Hosted By
9	2	Local	Local Communication
2	2	Cluster	Local Cluster
310-312	1	USA TAC Channels	United States Communication	BrandMeister USA
313-319	1	USA TAC Channels	United States Communication	BrandMeister USA
3100	1	Nationwide	United States Communication	BrandMeister USA
31001	1	Nationwide	Net Talkgroup 1 - Daily Nets	BrandMeister USA
31002	1	Nationwide	Net Talkgroup 2 - Daily Nets	BrandMeister USA
3101	2	Statewide	Alabama Statewide
3102	2	Statewide	Alaska Statewide
3104	2	Statewide	Arizona Statewide
3105	2	Statewide	Arkansas Statewide
3106	2	Statewide	California Statewide	BrandMiester
3108	2	Statewide	Colorado Statewide
3109	2	Statewide	Connecticut Statewide
3110	2	Statewide	Delaware Statewide	InterState Cbridge
3111	2	Statewide	D.C. Statewide
3112	2	Statewide	Florida Statewide	KC2CWT
3113	2	Statewide	Georgia Statewide	K4USD
3115	2	Statewide	Hawaii Statewide
3116	2	Statewide	Idaho Statewide
3117	2	Statewide	Illinois Statewide
3118	2	Statewide	Indiana Statewide
3119	2	Statewide	Iowa Statewide
3120	2	Statewide	Kansas Statewide
3121	2	Statewide	Kentucky Statewide
3122	2	Statewide	Louisiana Statewide
3123	2	Statewide	Maine Statewide
3124	2	Statewide	Maryland Statewide	InterState Cbridge
3125	2	Statewide	Massachusetts Statewide
3126	2	Statewide	Michigan Statewide
3127	2	Statewide	Minnesota Statewide
3128	2	Statewide	Mississippi Statewide
3129	2	Statewide	Missouri Statewide
3130	2	Statewide	Montana Statewide
3131	2	Statewide	Nebraska Statewide
3132	2	Statewide	Nevada Statewide	SNARS Cbridge
3133	2	Statewide	New Hampshire Statewide
3134	2	Statewide	New Jersey Statewide	m KC2CWT
3135	2	Statewide	New Mexico Statewide
3136	2	Statewide	New York Statewide	Upstate NY Cbridge
3137	2	Statewide	North Carolina Statewide	MotoDMR
3138	2	Statewide	North Dakota Statewide
3139	2	Statewide	Ohio Statewide	K4USD
3140	2	Statewide	Oklahoma Statewide
3141	2	Statewide	Oregon Statewide
3142	2	Statewide	Pennsylvania Statewide	PADMR Cbridge
3144	2	Statewide	Rhode Island Statewide
3145	2	Statewide	South Carolina Statewide
3146	2	Statewide	South Dakota Statewide
3147	2	Statewide	Tennessee Statewide	DMRX
3148	2	Statewide	Texas Statewide
3149	2	Statewide	Utah Statewide
3150	2	Statewide	Vermont Statewide
3151	2	Statewide	Virginia Statewide	DMRVA
3153	2	Statewide	Washington Statewide	DMRX
3154	2	Statewide	West Virginia Statewide
3155	2	Statewide	Wisconsin Statewide
3156	2	Statewide	Wyoming Statewide
31600	1	Regional	Regional Communication Based on Calling Area of Repeater for Area 0	BrandMeister
31601	1	Regional	Regional Communication Based on Calling Area of Repeater for Area 1	BrandMeister
31602	1	Regional	Regional Communication Based on Calling Area of Repeater for Area 2	BrandMeister
31603	1	Regional	Regional Communication Based on Calling Area of Repeater for Area 3	BrandMeister
31604	1	Regional	Regional Communication Based on Calling Area of Repeater for Area 4	BrandMeister
31605	1	Regional	Regional Communication Based on Calling Area of Repeater for Area 5	BrandMeister
31606	1	Regional	Regional Communication Based on Calling Area of Repeater for Area 6	BrandMeister
31607	1	Regional	Regional Communication Based on Calling Area of Repeater for Area 7	BrandMeister
31608	1	Regional	Regional Communication Based on Calling Area of Repeater for Area 8	BrandMeister
31609	1	Regional	Regional Communication Based on Calling Area of Repeater for Area 9	BrandMeister

Applications and Special Groups

9990 or 310997 - Parrot (Private Call)
31000 - Parrot (Group Call)
310999 - ARS/GPS

Fusion Talk Groups

99 DG-IDS can be assigned per each master for DR-2X Repeaters with LAN Cards connecting to a BrandMeister Server. The table below shows current mapped DG-IDs to BrandMeister Talk Groups.

DG-ID	3101	3102	3103
01	Reserved For Local Usage	Reserved For Local Usage	Reserved For Local Usage
02	Reserved For Local Usage	Reserved For Local Usage	Reserved For Local Usage
05	--	31010 - Alabama Link	--
13	--	--	310813 - K7PFJ Repeater
25	--	--	31325 - HXO
27	--	--	31327 - Las Vegas
28	--	--	31328 - SNARS
29	--	--	31329 - SNARS 2
32	--	--	3132 - Nevada
44	--	--	310844 - K0PRA Repeater
52	--	311752 - KB9YVN Repeater	--
55	--	31551 - WI Fusion	--
69	--	--	310869 - W1VAN Repeater
70	--	--	31070 - Ventura County Digital Radio Club
71	--	31171 - Illinois Link	3171 - NoCo
79	--	31179 - Woodford County IL ARES	--
83	--	--	31083 - Co Severe WX
84	--	--	31084 - NO CO Mountain FR
88	--	--	31088 - Colorado HD
90	--	--	--
91	--	--	310891 - ND4L Repeater

Repeater and System Connections

You are welcome to connect your Motorola, Hytera, Abell, or Hombrew repeaters as well as DVMega hotspots. We also support those wanting to connect talkgroups from their existing c-Bridge.

There are three BrandMeister servers, which are geographically dispersed, located in the US. For the best performance, please select the server that is closest to your repeaters physical location, or gives the lowest ping times to your location.