I am currently trying to make way for analog MDC to be on a P25 system using a bride, I have the bridge mostly figgered out but what I need help with is figuring out a way to log radio IDs on MDC. is there a logger for MDC that works somewhat the same as a logger on P25, and if so, what is it called?
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MDC logger
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no, sorry for the confusion
I am trying to make a analog repeater and bridge it into a P25 system, but the owner of the system said that I need MDC and to be able to record logs.
brndnstffrd
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Ill have to look back in my archives, but there was software from many years back that would decode and log MDC ID's. You would need a computer of some type and a way to pull audio from the radio but it didn't require any additional hardware. I will check but I believe it was called WINMDC.
I took a look and it was indeed called WINMDCD. It is opensource abandonware and unsupported, however here is a link to it: ANTISTATIC
I took a look and it was indeed called WINMDCD. It is opensource abandonware and unsupported, however here is a link to it: ANTISTATIC
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I've never made winmdcd work so good luck with it.
Is the system manager looking for your devices to use mdc or the repeater. I would think MDC from end users so the logger can determine who is on the radio is what he is looking for. Most likely into a console port to log MDC ? Ive done similar system integrations and thats normally what they are looking for. Really no need to have the repeater ID. More info needed.
Is the system manager looking for your devices to use mdc or the repeater. I would think MDC from end users so the logger can determine who is on the radio is what he is looking for. Most likely into a console port to log MDC ? Ive done similar system integrations and thats normally what they are looking for. Really no need to have the repeater ID. More info needed.
The vocoder used for P25 wasn't meant to pass tones, it was optimized to pass human speech. This is why paging tones sound awful when passed through a P25 talkpath. MDC1200 tones passed through P25 sound like a muffled burst of failure. I doubt you'd be able to decode it after it is passed through a bridge.
For logging purposes, you need your decoder to listen directly on the analog side of things if you want it to be reliable.
Your bridge better sound good. If I listen to it and it sounds like total failure, I am going to make fun of it and you
(but really, please try to make it sound good).
For logging purposes, you need your decoder to listen directly on the analog side of things if you want it to be reliable.
Your bridge better sound good. If I listen to it and it sounds like total failure, I am going to make fun of it and you
(but really, please try to make it sound good).Reelfishguy
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See if you can find an old Motorola L1475 tone remote. I think it has a serial port to log the MDC
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