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Motorola radios with MDC-1200
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bezking
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Here are the ones I can think of offhand. You didn't mention if you needed SPECIFIC MDC features, or just ID Encode, so here are some starting points:
HT750 HT1250 HT1550
CP200
MTS2000
HT750 HT1250 HT1550
CP200
MTS2000
GP300
P110
GP350
only do the MDC and not narrowband
P110
GP350
only do the MDC and not narrowband
AYoung2600
Member
The HT1000 will do narrowband if the last 2 digits of the model number are DN. If they are anything other than that it won't do narrowband.
Yes it does.
C138NC
Tactical Taco Consumer
What do you intend on doing with the radio? just curious for most of us would ask anyways.
I work for a local TV Station, Our Studio and Broadcast Truck have motorola radios with narrowband frequencies and MDC-1200 PTT ID. I was looking into getting a handheld radio for myself and i needed to know which radios have narrowband as well as MDC-1200 Signaling.
squirrel911
Member
Just Asking
I looked at all these radios and since the FD i am on uses MDC 1200 to identify I want to buy my own radio both portable and mobile. Now in our engines when someone keys up on a radio it shows there ID. I would like for both the portable and mobile I buy to do this. Is there any radios out there that do it??
I looked at all these radios and since the FD i am on uses MDC 1200 to identify I want to buy my own radio both portable and mobile. Now in our engines when someone keys up on a radio it shows there ID. I would like for both the portable and mobile I buy to do this. Is there any radios out there that do it??
squirrel911
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How do i know if i can recieve the MDC siganl and see who keyed up?
I can't vouch for much other than what I have personally seen which is limited, but obviously to decode a mdc Id the radio has to have a display. I know that the motorola pr400, cm300, ht1250, cdm1250 and 1550 all can display it, as well as the kenwood tk x180 series with the most recent firmware (both mobile and portable). With all of these you have to enable it in programming.
RKG
Member
We're having a problem here, because the Motorola MDC-1200 system has multiple functions (sending a user's ID on PTT is only one of them), so the phrase "doing MDC" isn't sufficiently defined.
If you want to be able to send a PTT-ID, all of the current XTS, XTL, HT1250/1500, CDM 1250/1500 radios will do that.
Decoding (and aliasing) radio MDC IDs was originally intended to be a console function. Later it was made available in some subscriber equipment, and is known as "PTT-ID" under the "Display" parameters. So far as I am aware, it is a firmware option upgrade in XTS/XTL equipment and not available in Waris equipment.
bezking
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Not exactly, the HT1250 and HT1550 at least are capable of aliasing MDC IDs.
SteveC0625
Order of the Golden Dino since 1972
Shows in the CPS for my CDM1250 as well.
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