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Motorola P25 Radios Help
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 10:11 pm
by jaskel
Hi to all the Moto GURUS out there, can you tell me if the below radio are fine for NSW P25 GRN RX only?? I have the opportunity to buy a couple of mobile and handheld units and need to know if these can be programmed to RX NSW P25 GRN.
XTS 3000
model : H09RDH9PW7BN
firmware 05.60.00.00
DSP N06.05.02
flashcode 549008-000600-2
Q806/G806 IMBE / APCO-25 Digital Operation
H14/G114 Digital ID Display
H868/W969 Multikey Operation
G170/H43 Remote Monitor and Radio Trace
H46 One-Touch Operation
H38/G51 Smartzone Operation
Q387 Conventional voting scan
Q173/G173 Smartzone OmniLink Operation
MOTOROLA ASTRO SPECTRA W3
Model D04QKH9PW3AN
firmware 11.06.01.00
DSP N07.03.19
flashcode 540008-000600-1
G806: ASTRO IMBE Digital Operation
G114: Enhanced Digital ID Display
W969: Hardware Multikey Encryption
G51: SmartZone Systems Operation
G387: Conventional Voting Scan
G173: SmartZone Omnilink MultiZone Operation
Re: Motorola P25 Radios Help
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 10:24 pm
by citabria
Nope and no.
They don't even support P25 trunking, even if they did, Motorola force them to affiliate.
Get a P25 scanner instead
Re: Motorola P25 Radios Help
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 10:30 pm
by jaskel
thanks, I have 4 P25 scanners...just thought id add this to the collection.
thanks again
Re: Motorola P25 Radios Help
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 10:43 pm
by BerryV
If you want to RX the NSW GRN only via single towers and pass all talkgroups, they will work just fine(in fact, sound better then any scanner). Ive got several W3's monitoring different towers. No affiliation at all. just set it up to scan all freq's on the tower ex control channel and alt control to speed up scan times.
Re: Motorola P25 Radios Help
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 10:48 pm
by jaskel
thanks Barry, I might stick to the 396
Re: Motorola P25 Radios Help
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 10:50 pm
by BerryV
jaskel wrote:thanks Barry, I might stick to the 396
no worries, it comes in handy when listening to specific towers, but thats pretty much all they do.
Re: Motorola P25 Radios Help
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 10:59 pm
by Bigfella237
That would be okay on a reasonably quiet site but wouldn't be much good on a busy metro site as that method doesn't "trunk track" (IOW it won't follow a talkgroup across multiple bases) so each conversation would be truncated (excuse the pun), that's why everybody always says "go buy a scanner" instead!
Andrew
Re: Motorola P25 Radios Help
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 3:20 am
by BerryV
Bigfella237 wrote:That would be okay on a reasonably quiet site but wouldn't be much good on a busy metro site as that method doesn't "trunk track" (IOW it won't follow a talkgroup across multiple bases) so each conversation would be truncated (excuse the pun), that's why everybody always says "go buy a scanner" instead!
Andrew
spot on!
Re: Motorola P25 Radios Help
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 7:45 am
by ivahri
If you are going to do that you may as well use an old Tait or Philips radio that have a better receiver than a cruddy old XTS... can't really see the point to setting up a radio to listen to snippets of conversations- that would drive me nuts!
Cheers,
Richard
Re: Motorola P25 Radios Help
Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 1:25 pm
by BerryV
ivahri wrote:If you are going to do that you may as well use an old Tait or Philips radio that have a better receiver than a cruddy old XTS... can't really see the point to setting up a radio to listen to snippets of conversations- that would drive me nuts!
Cheers,
Richard
each to their own. they do what I want it to.
and a "old tait or phillips" does not do P25.