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Unication advertises that the G5 can receive text messages. I do not know how this function works. At work we have the option of getting our runs sent as a text message to our phones. I would rather have the runs sent as a text message to my G5 pager. How do I make this happen?


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greggill said:
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My best guess is that you can't. They probably send it through the cell network as a text message, but the Unication isn't designed to get cell phone text messages. The Unication will receive analog, APCO P25 and DMR formats. The cellular mobile telephone networks are completely different modulation standards.
 
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(As a dealer), what I assume Unication is referring to is the ability to have canned MDC messages in the pager. You can have a MDC Page sent to the pager and it will display the message. Ex - Car Fire, House Fire, Working Fire, Mutual Aid etc.

From what I recall, the G5 does not allow you to put the pager in Quick Call mode and also MDC Alert mode.

Keep in mind, MDC Paging is a different protocol from MDC ID decoding. You can't setup a MDC Squawk on your two way and have the message shown on your pager.
 
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P25 supports text messaging so more than likely, the text would be sent over the control channel.
 
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P25 data is sent over a traffic channel, not the control channel. The control channel has a very finite amount of data that it can broadcast, so the last thing you want to do is eat into that by allowing data packets to be sent over it.
 
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Text messages over P25 makes sense. I don’t think my dispatch uses a traffic channel as described above. Are these traffic channels also listed on Radio Reference?


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"Traffic channel" = Any channel (other than the active control channel) of a trunked system which is provisioned to carry voice and/or data transmissions (aka "traffic").
 
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