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Question on NAS
- Thread starter fmcc0789
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Im usually not that guy but you have a lot more research to do. The answers are out there but stick with a scanner until you know how trunking operates while in use with a two way radio. If you want PM me and I'll see if I can find some time this weekend to help you.
If you mess up you will have a brick. If you mess up real bad you may get time to learn your craft.
The questions you are asking is telling everyone you are way over your head.
The questions you are asking is telling everyone you are way over your head.
$600 is a lot cheaper than lawyer fees 🤷🏼♂️
Your post history for the short time you've been a member here suggests that you are in way over your head. Setting up real radios for this sort of passive scanning is not for neophytes, so yeah, stick with a scanner or SDR setup.
FFPM571
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Then what radio are you trying to program for NAS because anything that you can NAS Phase II on is more than $600
Well he has an XTS5000 that he has tried in other threads to get working. Tried to monitor Phase 2 with an XPR6550...
The system OP points out does have quite a few Phase I talkgroups, so maybe one of those?
Wow that kinda takes the cake there! This guy needs to buy a dongle and start researching two waubradios amd how they operate. To the OP I would start with monitoring conventional channels because you can really cause issues if you don't know how to operate trunking systems.
Man be careful. If you are asking that question, it will be real easy for you to screw that up. Especially with a Motorola. Good luck!
MTS2000des
5B2_BEE00 Czar
Don't be that guy. No one got popped for scanner programming. Or FAFO.
Take a look at SDR (Software Defined Radio). You can set up a cheap dongle or two on your computer, coupled with SDRTrunk or DSD Plus Fastlane and you can decode and see all traffic going through the P25 system you want to monitor in real time. This will also teach you how the P25 systems work. Much less expensive than any P25 radio or scanner.
Another vote for SDR, as long as you're somewhat computer-savvy. Suggest RTL2832-based SDR (NESDR or rtl-sdr.com), SDRSharp, DSD+ Fastlane, SDRTrunk, Unitrunker. You'll want one SDR for control channel and one for every 1.9 MHz you need to cover simultaneously. That's a total of either 3 or 4 SDR for the freqs shown above, depending on whether the upper channels marked as control-capable actually get used for traffic otherwise.
