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Why would I have to, We have 18 different systems programed for Task Force use, the use of Dynamic Regrouping by other jurisdictions are eating up the personalities.
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XTS5000 Trunking Programming
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Why would I have to, We have 18 different systems programed for Task Force use, the use of Dynamic Regrouping by other jurisdictions are eating up the personalities.
ALL FPP portables have AT LEAST 240 personalities from the factory.
Its not the personality number, its the total occupied memory in the radio codeplug that is the issue.
2048 personalities? Super! Conventional only, probably. FPP? What a nightmare! Imagine how long codeplug reads and writes would be.....
Its not the personality number, its the total occupied memory in the radio codeplug that is the issue.
2048 personalities? Super! Conventional only, probably. FPP? What a nightmare! Imagine how long codeplug reads and writes would be.....
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XTS5000 with 16 channels takes around 8-10 seconds to write via USB, with 1500 channels, takes 15-18 seconds. I, for one can wait an additional 10 seconds for the luxery of having 2048 channels. If you don't have AADD, then 2048 channels is worth it.
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Trunking personalities and conventional personalities are different things and there maximums are controlled by the cps, maximum channels is different and is controlled by bits in the codeplug that the cps looks at to determine the max.
Those 2047 can be any mix of trunking or conventional, FPP or otherwise. I can't see any reason why they would be conventional only. Only limiting factors I can think of would be the maximum number of talkgroups per personality, and the maximum number of personalities.
Incidentally, on a fast (new) computer, a fully loaded 5k codeplug takes about 5 minutes to read and is over 250k.
Incidentally, on a fast (new) computer, a fully loaded 5k codeplug takes about 5 minutes to read and is over 250k.
Exactly my point. Time to go get a cup of coffee and a donut from the break room, while it loads. Maybe Windows 8 will be faster and I'll get a 12gHz processor....
Of course this is all assuming your rocking R9.00 firmware which FORCES you to have 240 or maximum number of personalities for FPP
. With your neighborhood secret squirrel trickery, you can do trunking and FPP (with a variable number of personalities for FPP) in a R16.00.00 firmware radio... [Been there done that ] Gotta ignore Ma-/\/\'s literature when your dealing with eBay or non-public safety radios. I for one consider all radios that don't come from some governmental agency [either that or Motorola directly] to have been messed with by the wrong people.
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But they can all be returned back to whatever (gov config) anyone would ever want so the hardware condition is the only real issue.
There's no FPP restrictions unless you go OVER version 9 CPS. 9 and below, you're all good. Firmware and CPS version aren't dependant on each other. My buddy's radio is Host/DSP 15 but programs with CPS 9.
Trunking and FPP work fine when using CPS over R9.00. Assuming you've done the secret squirrel techniques properly...Yes, they work fine. However the first 250 modes in the radio will be forced to be FPP. But that's really not a big deal - nobody says you HAVE to use FPP on them.
Mine does.
Actually when the 5000 first came out it would only do 512 channels. We still have some floating around like that.
To be brutally honest I do agree actually. Since pre-R7.00.00 firmware radios were limited to 512 channels then towards R12.00.00 they increased this to 1024 (or 800 something on 2500), supposedly R16.00.00 (or the previous version) was supposed to bump that up even more.
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