Just say one does program a radio on a trunked system, How do you know if the radio affiliates with said system. Is there a way to tell other than your radio being turned into a brick. Does the radio show a display beeps,flashing leds??? I am just asking and please do not read anything into this. Just a tech question.
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How to tell if your radio affiliates.
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is this a legit radio or is this radio program to scan a trunk system
If the police, sheriff, or federal agents knock on your door and want to talk to you about your radio, odds are that it affiliated.
If the radio suddenly stops working, the display is frozen, and you can't do anything but turn it off and back on to find that it's still frozen, odds are that it affiliated and has been stunned.
If it suddenly went dead, odds are that it affiliated and was remotely killed.
The no affiliate mode slaved trunked scan from conventional channels method is well proven and effective. AKA "hidden talkgroups", which is my contribution to the community. If you are using a Moto radio, you should not even CONSIDER trying to do it any other way.
If the radio suddenly stops working, the display is frozen, and you can't do anything but turn it off and back on to find that it's still frozen, odds are that it affiliated and has been stunned.
If it suddenly went dead, odds are that it affiliated and was remotely killed.
The no affiliate mode slaved trunked scan from conventional channels method is well proven and effective. AKA "hidden talkgroups", which is my contribution to the community. If you are using a Moto radio, you should not even CONSIDER trying to do it any other way.
On some radios you may notice a "quick" flash of the transmit LED light as it tries to affiliate.
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UniTrunker will show you all of the affiliations, so if you see your radio on the affiliation list, then it affiliated.
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See this is what type of answer I was looking for, No BS. Was not programming anything, just wanted some more information on how things work.
The radio usually will attempt to register when first powered up after it seeks a control channel (if programmed for the first time) or will go to the last control channel it was on when powered off. Once it decodes the system ID and WACN and verifies they match, then it transmits an affiliation request along with it's stored individual ID to the controller over the CC.
Usually you will see the red TX LED flash once or twice when this happens, the radio once affiliation is complete will then be given it's WUID and will either be allowed to receive traffic on that talkgroup or not (all depends on how the radio's ID is setup in the Provisioning Manager). If a radio is set to passively inhibit, it would occur at the moment the radio attempts to affiliate.
Whenever you change talkgroups, go in/out of scan, or the radio re-scans control channels. it will send data to the controller again. In an Astro 25 environment, if the ID is invalid you will usually get a SYS REG REFUSED message on the subscriber radio if the affiliation was not successful if no radio profile exists and the DEFAULT profile is disabled. Your radio will not receive any traffic at that point.
You'll see the xmit light flash as it attempts to transmit. If it flashes quickly several times one time, and then not again for a very long time, it succeeded in affiliating. If it keeps flashing, then it is not successful, and may display an out of range message. OTOH, if it never flashes, then someone programmed it for non-affiliation which is what unauthorized users should be set to.
See this is what type of answer I was looking for, No BS. Was not programming anything, just wanted some more information on how things work.
The radio usually will attempt to register when first powered up after it seeks a control channel (if programmed for the first time) or will go to the last control channel it was on when powered off. Once it decodes the system ID and WACN and verifies they match, then it transmits an affiliation request along with it's stored individual ID to the controller over the CC.
Usually you will see the red TX LED flash once or twice when this happens, the radio once affiliation is complete will then be given it's WUID and will either be allowed to receive traffic on that talkgroup or not (all depends on how the radio's ID is setup in the Provisioning Manager). If a radio is set to passively inhibit, it would occur at the moment the radio attempts to affiliate.
Whenever you change talkgroups, go in/out of scan, or the radio re-scans control channels. it will send data to the controller again. In an Astro 25 environment, if the ID is invalid you will usually get a SYS REG REFUSED message on the subscriber radio if the affiliation was not successful if no radio profile exists and the DEFAULT profile is disabled. Your radio will not receive any traffic at that point.
You'll see the xmit light flash as it attempts to transmit. If it flashes quickly several times one time, and then not again for a very long time, it succeeded in affiliating. If it keeps flashing, then it is not successful, and may display an out of range message. OTOH, if it never flashes, then someone programmed it for non-affiliation which is what unauthorized users should be set to.
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You'll see the xmit light flash as it attempts to transmit. If it flashes quickly several times one time, and then not again for a very long time, it succeeded in affiliating. If it keeps flashing, then it is not successful, and may display an out of range message. OTOH, if it never flashes, then someone programmed it for non-affiliation which is what unauthorized users should be set to.
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