{"id":248,"date":"2019-11-30T15:41:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T20:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buddy.brannan.name\/blog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2019-11-30T16:09:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T21:09:48","slug":"a-brief-review-of-the-retevis-rt8-handheld-dmr-transceiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buddy.brannan.name\/blog\/2019\/11\/a-brief-review-of-the-retevis-rt8-handheld-dmr-transceiver\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief Review Of the Retevis RT8 Handheld DMR Transceiver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Howdy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while. Sorry about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, I am reviewing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retevis.com\/rt8\" target=_blank>Retevis RT8 DMR handheld transceiver.<\/a> My thanks to Retevis for providing a review unit. The question is, is this something that a blind ham can use? The answer is yes, and it&#8217;s probably most easily used with the third party <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/travisgoodspeed\/md380tools\" target=_blank>MD380tools.<\/a> In this podcast, I will outline the how this works. There are much better tutorials on this, and I encourage you to use those for a lot more detail. For an explanation of how the morse output works, see <a href=\"http:\/\/qsl.net\/dl4yhf\/RT3\/index.html\" target+_blank>Wolf&#8217;s original RT3 modifications page.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3238\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-248-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/buddy.brannan.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Retevis-rt8-review.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/buddy.brannan.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Retevis-rt8-review.mp3\">https:\/\/buddy.brannan.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Retevis-rt8-review.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/buddy.brannan.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Retevis-rt8-review.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/buddy.brannan.name\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=248-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/buddy.brannan.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Retevis-rt8-review.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Retevis-rt8-review.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy! It&#8217;s been a while. Sorry about that. Today, I am reviewing the Retevis RT8 DMR handheld transceiver. My thanks to Retevis for providing a review unit. The question is, is this something that a blind ham can use? The answer is yes, and it&#8217;s probably most easily used with the third party MD380tools. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buddy.brannan.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buddy.brannan.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buddy.brannan.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buddy.brannan.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buddy.brannan.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/buddy.brannan.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/buddy.brannan.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buddy.brannan.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buddy.brannan.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buddy.brannan.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}