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Does the DVRS work with TDMA systems? Trying to find a solution for our vehicles that will help boost the signal of our portables, as it doesn't reach the main tower.
The P25 DVRS (Digital Vehicular Repeater System) is a small, rugged, self contained, 10W radio base station integrated with Motorola remote mount APX™ or XTL™ series mobile radios. Read more.
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It does not specifically say anything about Phase II TDMA operation one way or the other.
May have to ask a technically competent sales rep.
I'd be inclined to think it has the capability you need. Otherwise they'd have a fair number of unhappy customers, who bought them and then discovered it doesn't work after spending all that money.
The DVRS is one stage of a crossband repeater. When the portable is on a repeater channel, TDMA FDMA does not matter. The TG packets get passed through the repeater into the brick, and the brick programming takes over regarding time vs freq. If the channel/TG is conventional or trunked, doesnt matter. Only thing that matters is if the mobile is on a site within range.
It does. With APX6000/7000/8000 portables, properly optioned, it's almost seamless to the user. The portable transmits at half rate, so there is no need for transcoding in the repeater or mobile. The DVRS is transparent for both encryption and signaling.
the DVRS doesnt work on the system at all, the mobile of the vehicle does, the DVRS receives from your portables and pushes that out through the mobile, so if you have a TDMA mobile, then yes.