Kenwood FleetSync help!!!

[WQOC472]

Heres a question i have. I work for a Small TV station and we have A uhf system. i was telling some of the guys about the fleetsync system and how the unit id feature works. we have TK-8160's in our studio and in our mobile broadcast truck as well as our reporter vehicles. As well as now the 2 - 8160's i just purchased for my self.

Could someone tell me how to set up the unit id feature on our 8160's? we would have 5 tk-8160's to program with different unit id's, and another question, we have 10 tk-360 handhelds for use around our studio and a couple of our cameramen have tk-840's in their vehicles they do not have the fleetsync feature, so all the handheld radios and the 840's would hear is the tone at the beginning when any of the 8160's with unit id transmit? correct? (just like on a scanner, all we hear is the mdc-1200 or fleetsync tone and then the user starts txing correct?)

Also, we have 2 channels we use for our communications with the station, and then i would have the third channel as my Emergency Mgt frequency (i am a volunteer storm spotter for the EMA) is there a way to program the radio where only certain channels would transmit the unit id and fleetsync tone? (i only need the unit id feature programmed on the two frequencies we use for our TV station, and not for the Emg. Mgt. channel) again i apoligise for my ignorance on this im new to the whole fleetsync, mdc-1200, unit id stuff.

i'm wanting to get this system set up with the unit id feature pretty soon and i have a guy who will program these radios up for us i just need to know what to tell him about the fleetsync unit id feature considering we have the capable radios we just dont have anything set up currently.

Thanks!

 

[ramal121]

Fleetsync IDs are global to the radio, which means one ID per radio. Fleetsync CAN be assigned on a per channel basis, so those that don't require it can used in the plain old way.

What I'm not sure of, is what exactly what you want fleetsync to do for you. All later models that support Fleetsync will do PTT ID and selective call. I suspect that is what you're looking for. Depending on the radio and options, Fleetsync will also do emergency alert, status messaging, short and long text messaging, remote input/output, radio stun, remote monitoring, etc.

If I could get your email, I could ship you some info on setting up Fleetsync. It's too big to post on the forum.

 

[WQOC472]

im guessing the PTT ID feature? i was told Fleetsync will display the unit's ID whenever they PTT and its displayed on the Radio's display. With us being a TV station we don't really need the other emergency features and selective calling. Just the Unit ID. im under the understanding that Fleetsync sends the tone at the beginning like Motorola's MDC-1200? My email is zlegleiter@cox.net feel free to email me anything you've got. Thanks!

 

[radionerd13669]

Once in the programming software go to the Edit menu and select fleetsync.

In that menu you will set up the Fleet ID & Radio ID

Then While Programming in the freqs you will need to seleft PTT ID and select either EOT or BOT

 

[WQOC472]

im sending these radios to a radio shop in colorado to be programmed. what do i need to tell them? just the unit id's i need and i want the before transmission tone.

 

[WQOC472]

and another question i have, with fleetsync when any of the Fleetsync radios with the unit id feature enabeled as soon as the user presses the PTT the tone or (mdc-1200 squack as i call it) is heard on any of the other radios on our frequency? Even the radios without the Fleetsync feature will hear the "squack" as i call it? correct? thats what i want, that way we can tell if our handhelds are transmitting because they dont have fleetsync and if i dont hear the "squack" tone then we will know its a handheld being used.

Now how does a radio without fleetsync, example: our tk-360 handhelds show up on the 8160's when they transmit because they wont be sending a unit id? is it just blank?

 

[brian209]

When you send the radios to the shop, ask them to put a fleetsync id in each radio. Because of the way you are using the radios, you do not really care what numbers the shop picks. Then you will give them a list of what the radio Alias should be. So for instance you might tell them that you want the following: Truck 1, Truck 2, Truck 3, Truck 4, Truck 5. Camera 1, Camera 2, Camera 3, etc. When you set this up, try to anticipate future needs. If you add a radio you do not want to then decide that you want a radio to ID as "President" because you will have to have the shop reprogram every radio to add the new ID. Finally, tell the shop that that you want PTT ID on some of the frequencies/channels in your radio and whether you want them to ID at the Beginning of Transmission (BOT) or at the End of Transmission (EOT).

The shop will then assign the Fleetsync numbers to the Alias list you provided:

123 - 0001 : Truck 1
123 - 0002 : Truck 2
123 - 1001 : Camera 1
123 - 1002 : Camera 2
etc...

Also, the shop will set each of the capable radios to ID on Freq 1 and 2, but not ID on 3, 4 or 5 (as an example). Any radio that does not have Fleetsync will not ID upon key-up and also will hear the data packet but not decode anything.

Hope that helps.

Brian

 

[pddispatcher]

If you can do firmware upgrades on the 8160 to do MDC, it is a whole lot easier to set the radios up and you can do like 0001 MDC then set up an alias ID for that particular radio to display.

Just a thought.

Fleetsync is ok and all but my preference is MDC.

 

[phillmobile]

im sending these radios to a radio shop in colorado to be programmed. what do i need to tell them? just the unit id's i need and i want the before transmission tone.

dude end of transmission

otherwise everyone will get fed up with them