Motorola & Kenwood pro radio compatability?

[jolt1]

i am not sure if i am posting this int he correct spot but i figured maybe the right people will read it.

the first thing is the Kenwood 2 ton system for alerting VS the Motorola Alerting system fro radios.

the Kenwood alerting system seems to be that it puts out one or 2 tones on a certain frequency. when those tones are put out, then the kenwood radios wake up for a set amount of time.

being that this system works on the tone system lets say 1 second of 700hz and then 2 seconds of 600hz, this would wake up the radios(if im understanding the system properly.)

now wouldn't it be possible to produce the same tone on a Motorola dispatch system to wake up the Kenwoods?

also a seaperate question...

what about the ptt ID?

can a kenwood produce a EOT PTT ID that a Motorola will understand?

 

[davidgcet]

yes you can produce the tones on the moto console, if it is a centracom you will need to do the tone conversion to get the correct 4 digit code.

if the moto units are using MDC i don't think the kenwood can do it, but i ain't fooled with many kenwoods.

 

[ramal121]

Two tone paging is very common. Motorola and Kenwood will both do this. Either brand you just enter the frequencies of the tones. The timing is standard (1 sec and 3 sec, unless the encoder is using another oddball encoding scheme other than quick call two). Both brands can be configured on what the radio does when a proper tone set is received.

For PTT ID, the Motorola uses MDC1200 signalling, while Kenwood uses its own Fleetsync protocol. They sound and do the same thing, however they are not compatible with each other. Kenwoods latest make of the TK-X180 radios are MDC1200 compatible in a basic sort of way and will send PTT ID's to a Motorola radio.