XTS5K talkgroup

ve5wil said:

quick question -
using a xts5k for both ham (one zone)
and a over glorified scanner (another zone)

I have access to the syskey and NAC

when entering talkgroup ids (p25p1), is the CPS / system looking for the hexID, DECID or does it matter?
if its in the cps tutorials, i missed it.

I have both sets of IDs figured for the agency I want to monitor

thanks

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ve5wil said:

quick question -
using a xts5k for both ham (one zone)
and a over glorified scanner (another zone)

I have access to the syskey and NAC

when entering talkgroup ids (p25p1), is the CPS / system looking for the hexID, DECID or does it matter?
if its in the cps tutorials, i missed it.

I have both sets of IDs figured for the agency I want to monitor

thanks

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jim202 said:

If you have to ask, the question really is do you know what your doing so you don't foul up the operation of the trunking system? Poorly programmed trunking radios can cause all sorts of havoc on a trunking system.

I am not trying to be the radio police here, but the radio your trying to program up to be a high priced scanner will transmit on the trunking system unless you know how to keep it from affiliating.

The other way to do it is the legal way and get a letter of authorization from the radio systems manager. If he can be convinced you need to be on his system, he will then probably have the system's radio shop program it up for you. That way you know it is programmed correctly and it won't cause any problems to the system. It can even be made to RX only on what ever talkgroups do get programmed into the radio. This is done all the time for news media radios.

If the radio does show up on the system without being authorized, the radio will probably get shut down by the system and now you have a useless hunk of radio that has been inhibited.

Jim

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jwilson2013 said:

Don't mean to be cruel, but let him program it up. It it's wrong and causes havoc, hopefully the system admin will inhibit it and won't have to worry about it causing a problem. If you don't know the ins and outs of a system and how to properly program it as not to cause issues then don't. Otherwise go for it and when the rouge radio is detected it will be shut down (hopefully) and the person who programmed it could be prosecuted in some states. Most systems are designed to catch this kind of thing as to keep it from causing lengthy harm to it. May have to do a rant post about programming radios on trunking systems by people who don't have any idea how to properly.

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ve5wil said:

first off - unlike some folks, I value my freedom, radio license , and equipment. If I did not have any form of authorization to atempt what I am doing, I wouldn't be asking for help.

I am familiar with the no affiliation programming.

I am aware of potential to cause the system havoc.

I just wanted to confirm that hex was the correct way to enter id

reason- both agency I wish to monitor and sys admin have ok'd me to monitor provided I program the radio myself and submit the code plug for verification before using it (or I could get a radio from them at retail cost, then it would only be a rental as it is with all agencies on this system).

as for programming radios... yes this will be my first time using CPS. Previous experience has been only with RSS or other radio specific software

KE4ZNR - Thank you for the assist.

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