# General configuration

The general configuration settings of some radios can be overly complex with a huge amount of options. The vast majority of these settings, however, are useless for ham-radio purposes. Thus the possible settings for the general configuration of the radio are reduced to 6 key-value pairs.

The DMR ID of cause, is absolutely necessary and specifies your personal DMR number. Keep in mind, that you do NOT need to get a unique DMR ID for each radio you own! All your radios can share the same DMR ID. The DMR ID is specified using the "ID" keyword as

    ID: 12345678

In rare situations, where you actually need several different radio IDs (e.g., if you use the same radio for HAM and commercial applications), you may specify them as a comma separated list. The first ID in the list will be handled as the default ID for the radio.

The radio name is a string, that the radio may display somewhere on the screen. It does not have any effect on the behavior of the radio or gets transmitted. You may set this entry to your call-sign. For example:

    Name: "DM3MAT"

The two intro lines might be shown on the screen of your radio on startup. You may set these to any string you like. They are also cosmetic and don't have any effect on the behavior of your radio. For example

    IntroLine1: "Hello"
    IntroLine2: "MY0CALL"

The microphone sensitivity/amplification can also be set (on some radios) using the MicLevel entry. This entry is a number between 1 and 10. The larger the level, the larger the microphone amplification. This value may vary heavily from model to model.

    MicLevel: 2

The "Speech" option enables the speech synthesis of the radio if supported. Possible settings are "on" and "off".

    # Speech-synthesis ('On' or 'Off'):
    Speech: Off