Hi, sorry in advance for what may be a dumb question, but I don't know where to post a plea for help...
I am the Head Armorer at a federal detention facility. My primary job is all things concerning weapons, munitions, chemicals, explosives, etc. Being that there was nobody specifically in charge of communication radios and equipment, I long ago adopted responsibility for our comm system. For the last 11 years we have been using a couple Motorola analog repeaters and CP-200 portables. Over the years our operation has expanded time and again and the radio system has aged while traffic has exponentiated. After years of begging and pleading I finally got funding to overhaul our system.
I currently have (~200) Motorola XPR-7550 portables, (4) XPR-5550 (as base stations), and (2) XPR-8400 repeaters (that will supplement current XPR-8300 that will be upgraded) on order with a radio equipment distributor. The repeaters will be running the Capacity+ software.
My main issue: I am now at the stage of trying to plan out a "Site Map" (if that is the correct terminology); the channel/talk-group structure we will use.
While I have some very basic knowledge and experience with radio scanning as a hobby, I am unfamiliar with the Capacity+ software and what changes/improvements/complications it may produce. I have reprogrammed the old CP-200s dozens of times over the last few years on the old CPS and currently have the NEW Motorola CPS for the XPR-7550s (v11), the difference is night and day, and trying to learn it w/o any manual or instruction is daunting.
My equipment distributor has been as helpful as he can be via phone and email, but he doesn't have experience with radio systems in a correctional institution environment. He did send me a Site Map for a theme park he worked on which was a LITTLE helpful, but... not much. I have tried getting in contact with other correctional facilities nearby in hopes of getting hold of a single person who is in charge of or has knowledge of their system, but it seems everyone has just contracted out the job and worked with what they got.
If anyone out there could possibly send me an example of a site-map/channel structure (with all sensitive information scrubbed, of course), I would be HUGELY grateful. I've worked very hard for a long time to make this happen, and I want to do it in the most efficient and logical manner possible.
Again, if there is a more appropriate forum for this, please advise (or a moderator could possibly move?).
Thanks again for any help!!
I am the Head Armorer at a federal detention facility. My primary job is all things concerning weapons, munitions, chemicals, explosives, etc. Being that there was nobody specifically in charge of communication radios and equipment, I long ago adopted responsibility for our comm system. For the last 11 years we have been using a couple Motorola analog repeaters and CP-200 portables. Over the years our operation has expanded time and again and the radio system has aged while traffic has exponentiated. After years of begging and pleading I finally got funding to overhaul our system.
I currently have (~200) Motorola XPR-7550 portables, (4) XPR-5550 (as base stations), and (2) XPR-8400 repeaters (that will supplement current XPR-8300 that will be upgraded) on order with a radio equipment distributor. The repeaters will be running the Capacity+ software.
My main issue: I am now at the stage of trying to plan out a "Site Map" (if that is the correct terminology); the channel/talk-group structure we will use.
While I have some very basic knowledge and experience with radio scanning as a hobby, I am unfamiliar with the Capacity+ software and what changes/improvements/complications it may produce. I have reprogrammed the old CP-200s dozens of times over the last few years on the old CPS and currently have the NEW Motorola CPS for the XPR-7550s (v11), the difference is night and day, and trying to learn it w/o any manual or instruction is daunting.
My equipment distributor has been as helpful as he can be via phone and email, but he doesn't have experience with radio systems in a correctional institution environment. He did send me a Site Map for a theme park he worked on which was a LITTLE helpful, but... not much. I have tried getting in contact with other correctional facilities nearby in hopes of getting hold of a single person who is in charge of or has knowledge of their system, but it seems everyone has just contracted out the job and worked with what they got.
If anyone out there could possibly send me an example of a site-map/channel structure (with all sensitive information scrubbed, of course), I would be HUGELY grateful. I've worked very hard for a long time to make this happen, and I want to do it in the most efficient and logical manner possible.
Again, if there is a more appropriate forum for this, please advise (or a moderator could possibly move?).
Thanks again for any help!!
