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TGIF Net Transcript 2025-11-21
DIR By: VE3RD
Date: November 22, 2025, 7:48 am
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[center]TGIF Friday Night Net November 21, 2025
Talkgroup 31665 Net Control: Eric KC8UKB (Auglaize County,
Ohio)
Topic: Code Plugs[/center]
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Expanded Opening Remarks
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the TGIF Friday
Night Net.
We meet here every Friday night at 8:30 p.m. Eastern Standard
Time on the TGIF server, Talkgroup 31665, to talk about a chosen
topic and anything else related to amateur radio.
Tonights subject is code plugs.
Emergency traffic may be indicated by a triple break and will be
accepted at any time during the net. Please remember this is a
directed net, so please only transmit when directed to do so by
the net control station.
Does anybody have any announcements, news, or important
information for the net?
Nothing heard.
Now on to check-ins
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Main Topic Discussion Code Plugs
K4WZV Robert The Ad-Hoc Revolution
2,000+ talkgroups = impossible to keep codeplugs current
Get a radio with true manual/ad-hoc dialing (Anytone 878/868,
TYT MD-UV380 + OpenGD77, etc.)
Punch in any TG from the keypad no pre-programming needed
Three golden steps for any codeplug:
Create Digital Contacts
Create the Channel
Add channel to a Zone
Anytone tip: set manual-dial hang-time to infinite
VE3RD Phil Uses one zone and the DMRGateway-6 such that all
most used TG's both TGIF and MNET are available in a short twist
of the channel knob(some packet loss)
WC7D Shared radio with wife
Two identical channels except different DMR-ID & callsign
→ just turn the knob to switch users
WB3IHY Joe Two priceless habits
Always save incremental dated copies (2025-11-21-v1, -v2,
etc.)
Every codeplug must have the network parrot: TGIF = 9998 or
31000
W4JLP Spreadsheet power editing
Export → edit hundreds of lines in Excel/Google Sheets
→ re-import
K4WZV Robert (again) Critical warning
CPS version MUST match firmware version exactly (especially
Anytone) or youll have weird bugs/brick the radio
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Marketplace
KF5MG Wants to trade/sell several Connect Systems radios &
hotspots for a Motorola VHF mobile (analog or DMR flexible)
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Closing Remarks
Before we close the net I need to thank the people that make the
TGIF network possible
Founder Mitch Savage EA7KDO (SK) started it all with one
Raspberry Pi
James KH6S (SK) Nextion hotspot pioneer
Current team: KG5RKI G7LRR N3MEL VE3JAR VE3RD forum
team
Special thanks to Robert K4WZV the voice of 31665 for years
Recordings: tgif.network → Forum → TGIF Friday Night
Net Recordings (thanks VE3RD)
This is Eric KC8UKB closing the net for Friday, November 21,
2025.
Talkgroup 31665 is now open. 73 everyone Thank God Its
Friday!
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Complete List of Callsigns Present (55 unique)
KC8UKB (NCS) AB3TY K1WMP K2OZ K4WZV K5GU K7DCE
K8NR K9FEH K9XP KA3NGT KB3JQQ KB3NUN KB4QCE KB4OM
KB8PFL KB9LIQ KB9Q KC0RNP KC5LAA KC8USA KC9SIO
KD4BJA KD6AJG KD9YTP KE4TLC KE5MSQ KE8APO KE8PCQ
KF5MG KR4GFL N1XQX N3TJK N4ZWR NG5N N5ZKF N6CZE
N9DYO N9MJS N9PMR NS8G NT9Q W4JLP W7NEE WB3GCK
WB3GTM WB3IHY WC7D WD8KLB WD9HGO WE8M W8FIK KX4XR
(keyed only)
[center]73 and see you next Friday on 31665![/center]
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