Huge victory for me!!! I will accept it.
I recently found my old mmdvm Hotspot and have been trying to get it back up and running. The last time I used it, we had to put in a password to gwt it to talk to brnadmeister. Now, something else funky is going on. A friend suggested I gwt on tgif. That is acting just as funky. I can transmit once, the network will see me and then it is as if I gwt locked out for a while. I can transmit, the Hotspot will show it is receiving, but nothing gets passed and nothing shows up as local activity. After fighting that for the past week, I decided to turn dmr completely off and give P25 a whirl. After a couple of hours of fighting that, I not only have P25 working, but it is working on a APX Next at that.
At least I know I am not likely having a hardware issue. I had a quick 5 minute QSO on the worldwide reflector. Huge win for me!!!! I'm happy, relaxed and off to bed now. Tomorrow, we add the codeplug to my APX 8000. After that proves to work, then I will think about attacking DMR again.
<EDIT> Since posting this, I discovered my issue. My primary HT is having issues. I have a 2nd HT that everything fired up off of and works great. I am assuming my BER is way out there on my HT vs the others.