OpenGD77 Alpha version installation on the TYT MD2017 / Retevis RT-82

OpenGD77 Alpha version installation on the TYT MD2017 / Retevis RT-82, including post installation actions of backing up the internal Flash memory and the Backup Security registers, as well as uploading a codeplug, and a DMR ID database
See www.opengd77.c... for full written details

[@wolfgangbachschwelloe1wbs905]

Hello Roger this is Wolfi OE1WBS. I followed your Instructions and turned my TYT 2017 into a fantastic satellite radio. I came across your website and your videos because we are the dealing with the antenna rotors and satellite operations in our club during the last weeks. After many hours with connecting my other rigs of well known manufacturers to communicate with software like gpredict (which is fine too) its a pleasure to have a radio that calculates and corrects Doppler-shift on its own. Your work will give a major impulse on our Austrian ham community. Thank and 73 from Vienna.

[@pengiethebird]

I just finished updating my RT82 to the openGD77 firmware. First impressions are very good and it's working great.

[@stickmenwithrayguns]

Thanks. 👌🙂 The GPS in my RT82 never worked until I installed this.👍

[@Dave44271]

Thanks for the video. I installed on my TYT MD-2017 and it's working very well.

[@vk3kyy]

OK. Thanks

[@wieniomaster]

This is great, thank you Roger, you are a master🍻

[@W4KWS]

Excellent video! Thank you for sharing.

[@joseignacio295]

Great¡¡¡¡ I've an RT:82 no using, and i'm owner a gd77 ht with opengd77. Tnx¡¡¡

[@CQBlindHams]

Thank you Roger for all you have dun for us in the blind hams community. Will voice prompts work the same way for the MD-2017 as the other Open GD77 family of radios? Do you have any other radios on your hit list for adding the Open GD77 firmware on?

[@vk3kyy]

Yes. Voice prompts work like on the other OpenGD77 firmware. I do not have any other radios on my 'hit list'. There are very few other radios which use or used the same chipset as in all the supported radios. i.e The C6000 DMR + FM DSP chip. Newer radios use a combined CPU + DSP chip called a C7000 which is a Chinese product with no support for any developers outside China to use it. Even inside China only industrial companies can access the programming tools to use it. There are some older radios, like the Aluiance HD1 which I think may use the same C6000 chip, but its not a radio which sold well, and its no longer manufactured, and even getting hold of one would be difficult, so its unlikely I would have the time etc to port to that radio unless someone gave me several of them to take apart etc

[@stingray9183]

May i have the cps GD77 password please

[@daveborchard2019]

Why do you need to update the firmware? Does the firmware fix problems or add features? If it fixes problems or adds features, that should be stated at the beginning of your video! If there isn’t a good reason to update the firmware, what’s the point of updating the firmware, because updating firmware sometimes fails on some devices, and then you end up with a non-functional device!

[@crlarock6320]

Can i send you my tyt md-2017, ill pay you to reprogram it.

[@alistairboyd5770]

What is the point of this video? It does nothing to inform me, which is irritating. It plays an irrelevant "music' track, that too is irritating. A pointless waste of my time watching it.