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Brand	TYT
Color	Black
Tuner Technology	UHF
Frequency Range	400 - 470 MHz
Impedance	50 Ohm

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TYT MD-380 UHF Analog/Digital DMR Radio + USB cable
USB Programming Cable and software
AC Charger, 2000 mAh Battery, Belt Clip, Antenna, English Manual

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Introductory pricing just for ham radio operators! This is TYT's first DMR digital radio, which utilizes Time-Division Multi-Access (TDMA) digital technology. This is compatible with Motorola TRBO Tier I & II radios including radios manufactured by Motorola, Hytera, Kenwood, and Vertex Standard. Priority Scan Voice Prompt Complying with digital protocol ETSI TS102 361-1.-2.-3 Power-on protection Compatible with MotoTRBO Tier I&II Color LCD display DTMF decoding and encoding Text messages in digital mode Updated software available for new features Analogue and Digital mode Combined Updated to 1000 channels Programming multifunction key Private call,group call and all call Built-in CTCSS/DCS . Frequency Range: 400-470MHz Channel No.: 1000 Antenna impedance: 50Ω Operating Voltage: 7.5 vDC Operating Temperature: -30°C~+60°C Dimension(W x H x D): 128x61x38mm Battery: 1700mAh Li-ion Transmitter Output power: ≥5W(H; ≥1W(L) Vocoder type: TDMA Frequency Stability: ± 1.0 PPM Adjacent channel power: ≤-60dB Spurious Radiation Antenna:9KHz-1GHz ,≤ -36dBm 1GHz-12.75GHz ,≤-30dBm Hum and noise: -40dB @12.5KHz 4 FSK Digital Mode 12.5KHz(data only):7k60FXD 12.5KHz(data+voice)7k60FXE Receiver Digital sensitivity: 0.3uV/-117.4dBm(BER 5%); 0.22uV/-100dBm(BER 1%) Audio distortion: 3%(TYPE) Audio power: 1W Audio response: =1dB-3dB Adjacent Channel Selectivity: Tia603C:65dB,ETSI:60dB Spurious Tia603C:75dB,ETSI:70dB Co Channel rejection: ≥-12 dB

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Package Dimensions

7.9 x 6.6 x 3.4 inches

Item Weight

1.55 pounds

ASIN

B00X6FYWWS

Item model number

Tytera MD-380

Batteries

1 Lithium Polymer batteries required.

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271 ratings

4.3 out of 5 stars

Best Sellers Rank

#1,109 in Portable FRS Two-Way Radios

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

Other display features

Wireless

Colour

Black

Manufacturer

TYT

Date First Available

May 5, 2015

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Ruby

Loaded with custom firmware made the MD-380 even better!

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2017

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Out of the box, it's a great radio. However, it's possible to make it even better by loading a custom firmware called 'MD380Tools' which allows the entire DMR database to be loaded onto the radio (currently more than 52,000 calls). With the new firmware, the Talkgroup, station's ID, call sign, name and QTH are displayed (see screen display after mod attached).

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Dee NTop Contributor: Amazon Echo

Great Introduction to DMR

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2016

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I'm new to DMR, although I've been licensed for over 40 years and hold an Extra Class license.

I've been toying with getting into digital, but have been frustrated by the lack of a single or compatible digital path. DSTAR ad FUSION are both vendor specific, DMR is not.

There is a problem with the radio I received in that if either the programming cable or speaker-mic is plugged in for a while, when it is unplugged, the speaker is muted. If I wait for a few minutes, then plug in and remove either the programming cable or the speaker-mic, then the speaker starts working, again. Contacting the vendor confirmed that the problem is likely due to a faulty speaker jack, so I will need to return this radio and get another.

If you're new to DMR, do yourself a favor and find someone to help you out. Programming this radio, using the vendor software, is a study in frustration. Compared to analog FM, DMR is fairly confusing with Talk Groups, Color Codes, and Timeslots to figure out in addition to the usual frequency, offset, channel width, PL, etc.

Basically, you can think of DMR as a way to double (or quadruple) repeater bandwidth. Whereas one analog repeater can use a 30kHz channel for one voice discussion, DMR allows you to have two channels (timeslots) on one repeater in a 12.5kHz channel! There are other advantages (e.g. messaging), but I'll confine my comments to just voice.

Each timeslot (TS1 and TS2) can carry a conversation at the same time. Typically, repeaters appear to use one TS for "local" communications and one for "wide area" communications. Each timeslot allows certain Talkgroups to access certain groups of users.A talk group may be something like "local", meaning only the local repeater group, "Statewide" for all associated repeaters in the state, "North America" for all associated repeaters in North America or even "World". In addition to the talk groups, you'll need to know the "Color Code" of your repeater. Most are CC1. Get your talk group and color code information from your local repeater organization.

When programming the radio, there are Channels which hold the operating frequency, mode (FM or DMR), channel name, "Contact" name, "Group List", time slot, color code and other information. The "Contact" refers to the talk group you want to transmit to. You will only hear traffic for the talk group you specify. To hear more than just one talk group, add a "Group List" in which you can group together multiple Contacts. For example, on one of my local channels, World, World-English, and North America are all in TS1. in each of my channels, I include my TS1_AZ group which includes the other talk groups on the same channel. Not only will I hear all the traffic on the repeater, it helps to avoid trying to talk over someone else since you cannot hear ANYTHING unless everything matches.

You will need one channel dedicated to each frequency, timeslot, talk group, and color code you want to talk on. For example, if you want to talk on a repeater in the "Local", "East Coast", "North America", and "World" talk groups, you'll need to dedicate 4 channels. In some cases, I use 8 channels for one repeater, so the 1000 channels get used up quickly.

One of the great frustrations I had when programming my MD380 was that I started with a Codeplug (a file with repeaters already programmed for my area). Assuming that it was correct, I wasted a day trying to figure out why my radio wasn't hearing anything. I finally figured out that when the indicator was green, there was a carrier, even though I couldn't hear anything. I then started trying different options until I figured out which parameter was incorrect. Once I corrected the error, I started hearing stations from around the world on my MD380!

The channels on the radio are grouped into 16 channel zones. A channel can be in multiple zones, but you can't add more than 16 channels into a zone. You might want to group your channels into "your town", "other town", "my state", "other state", etc. zones.

Further, there are scan lists in which you can select which channels are scanned with the currently selected channel.Each channel can only select one scan list.

This radio has pretty good receive audio (you'll quickly get used to listening without the hiss and static of FM) and good transmit audio.

Still want access to analog repeaters? This radio offers full support of analog repeaters including CTCSS and DCS.

Simplex operation is a little easier than repeaters, but you still have to match frequency, talk group, and color code, there just isn't a timeslot on simplex. Try to use the standard frequencies and talk groups. Your repeater club can help.

Join your local DMR repeater group. You'll get the correct setup information and should be able to get someone to help you set up your radio. Best of all, you'll be finding a whole new set of friends!

Have some fun with DMR, I think you'll want to stay on digital once you make the leap!

Edit: 06/17/16: I picked up a second unit from a different vendor and the included "long" antenna was about the size of a standard dual band duckie instead of about 18" long. It's more convenient, but not quite as efficient.

Edit 8/15/16: Tytera has released new firmware for the MD380 and MD390 with some great improvements. The upgrade is free from tyt888 website. Look for Upgrade TYT MD380 on YouTube for an explanation.

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Drew

New to DMR? Start with this radio.

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2015

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Whoa. What an affordable way to jump into DMR. If you're looking to get your feet wet, without committing $500 to a radio - buy this. The radio feels well-built.

After un-boxing and requesting a user ID through www.dmr-marc.net, I hooked up the included USB cable and got to work. Within a couple of hours (this is my first DMR), I was inside my house talking to someone in another country via a repeater that is about 25 miles away! The range and sound quality on DMR are awesome!

The programming does seem a bit cumbersome, though I hear that Tytera/TYT has been very responsive to customer input, thus far. Even so, After programming talkgroups for a couple of repeaters, I got it down.

Bottom line - if you're unsure about DMR, buy this radio. If you don't like it, you can mail it to me!

73, N0FTW

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Mazal

Excellent first DMR radio

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2017

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I have had this radio for about two weeks. As a new DMR user, it took me quite a few days to understand the differences between Zone, Channel, Contact , Codeplug, etc. I got help from online product groups as well as from a few local users. My first attempt to upload MD380 Tools did not work out and the radio was locked with an unknown password. TYT Technical Support, with 12 hours, sent me a file to unlock the phone. I realized that I had uploaded MD380 ToolZ instead of ToolS, and after scrupulously following a Youtube video on how to install MD380 Tools, I was finally able to get the full DMR Marc database on the phone which is very helpful. ToolZ did not give me the contact database and it also disabled the radio volume from the radio screen.
I still need to understand the differences between DMR, DMR Plus, Brandmeister etc and when traveling in Europe a few days ago, I was not able to make any DMR contact (even with a local codeplug that I had received) and was limited to Analog.
The radio holds well in my hand, works very well and has good audio, and I strongly recommend the TYT MD380. I will however upgrade one day to a dual band 2m/70cm DMR/Analog radio as I like to operate Simplex on 146.52 and this radio only has UHF. I have been told that the MD-2017 (which has these features) may have issues and I want to wait till this has been resolved.

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Jerome Whelan

Lived up to its reputation for good value and performance

Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2018

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Bought the TYT MD-380 because of its good reputation amongst other ham radio operators using it to learn digital mobile radio (DMR). This radio is my second hand-held DMR radio, the first being a Radioddity GD-77, which Amazon offered to me on a reduced cost time-limited offer.

The TYT MD-380 DMR radio gives me a second manufacturer's approach to the DMR business. The Customer Programming Software provided with the TYT also gives me a second example of how that job might be done.

I think I like the TYT MD-380 better of my two radios because it has a top-of-radio rotary switch to select among talk group, AND the TYT can make use of amateur radio community developed software such as TYToolz which adds community developed capabilities to the TYT MD-380. Additionally, I like the Customer Programming Software better than others.

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