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APX 7000 FPP
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I think the limit you'd reach is number of personalities, as you need a personality for each FPP conventional channel. (i.e. 32 FPP channels = 32 personalities). I believe this limit is 255 personalities, but I'll have to double check.
While the above was true in the XTS series of radios it is no longer accurate when it comes to APX radios. I believe there is a limit of 200 conventional personalities but each of those personalities can have up to the 3000 channel total limit in the radio. Thank goodness Moto fixed the limitations of the XTS (and earlier) series of radios.
To sum up: You could have 3000 FPP channels in one zone if you really wanted to in the APX series of radios
Marshall KE4ZNR
There is often a difference between believing and knowing.
The APX 7000 has a maximum limit of 3000 channels. Within that limitation:
- A maximum of 255 conventional personalities
- A maximum of 1250 frequencies per conventional personality
- A maximum of 200 zones
- A maximum of 625 channels per zone
Once you start to hit channel limits, the CPS will also prevent you from creating new personalities and/or zones.
So for example, the most you could squeeze into the least amount of space would be:
- 3 conventional personalities of 1250+1250+500 channels each
- 5 zones of 625+625+625+625+500 channels each
You could not have "3000 FPP channels in one zone if you really wanted to", however.
And yes, they can all be FPP if you wish (FPP is enabled per zone, not per channel)
The APX 7000 has a maximum limit of 3000 channels. Within that limitation:
- A maximum of 255 conventional personalities
- A maximum of 1250 frequencies per conventional personality
- A maximum of 200 zones
- A maximum of 625 channels per zone
Once you start to hit channel limits, the CPS will also prevent you from creating new personalities and/or zones.
So for example, the most you could squeeze into the least amount of space would be:
- 3 conventional personalities of 1250+1250+500 channels each
- 5 zones of 625+625+625+625+500 channels each
You could not have "3000 FPP channels in one zone if you really wanted to", however.
And yes, they can all be FPP if you wish (FPP is enabled per zone, not per channel)
Thanks for the clarification
I think we can all agree that FPP on the APX is light years ahead of past radios.
Marshall KE4ZNR
I think we can all agree that FPP on the APX is light years ahead of past radios.
Marshall KE4ZNR
There is often a difference between believing and knowing.
The APX 7000 has a maximum limit of 3000 channels. Within that limitation:
- A maximum of 255 conventional personalities
- A maximum of 1250 frequencies per conventional personality
- A maximum of 200 zones
- A maximum of 625 channels per zone
Once you start to hit channel limits, the CPS will also prevent you from creating new personalities and/or zones.
So for example, the most you could squeeze into the least amount of space would be:
- 3 conventional personalities of 1250+1250+500 channels each
- 5 zones of 625+625+625+625+500 channels each
You could not have "3000 FPP channels in one zone if you really wanted to", however.
And yes, they can all be FPP if you wish (FPP is enabled per zone, not per channel)
There is often a difference between believing and knowing.
Indeed. I stand corrected. The few implementations I've seen of FPP on APX radios have been the same as the way we had to do it on ASTRO radios, and I never bothered to try anything else. Good to know!
Really, the only snag with FPP in the APX radios is that a zone cannot be FPP enabled (for the sake of its conventional members) if it has trunked system members in the zone (has to be a conventional-only zone).. other than that, the world is your oyster. Light years ahead of the XTS FPP is definitely the right term.
There is often a difference between believing and knowing.
The APX 7000 has a maximum limit of 3000 channels. Within that limitation:
- A maximum of 255 conventional personalities
- A maximum of 1250 frequencies per conventional personality
- A maximum of 200 zones
- A maximum of 625 channels per zone
Once you start to hit channel limits, the CPS will also prevent you from creating new personalities and/or zones.
So for example, the most you could squeeze into the least amount of space would be:
- 3 conventional personalities of 1250+1250+500 channels each
- 5 zones of 625+625+625+625+500 channels each
You could not have "3000 FPP channels in one zone if you really wanted to", however.
And yes, they can all be FPP if you wish (FPP is enabled per zone, not per channel)
Hello, not a FPP question but you pointed out something here that I am stuck. My APX-8000 can do the same as above. My question is, are the frequencies in a personality set aside for trunking tower sites?. In a conventional personality, how can I manually access these conventional frequencies individually or is there a shortcut key in a menu, some trick.
Are you asking about mixing trunking modes and conventional in the same zone? If so you cannot do that. All of the modes in the zone must be conventional in order to maintain FPP in that particular zone.
Not trunking in conventional mode. I clicked the (plus) to add 16 conventional frequencies within one personality entry. I am just trying to figure out now how to access them to monitor.
I figured it out after four hours of trying, sorry about that.I did not understand I had to copy them to a separate zone. Trial and error.
This is why I tell people about the "CPS Triangle":
You change one of the above you have to check the other 2 as they are all dependent on each other.
Marshall KE4ZNR
You change one of the above you have to check the other 2 as they are all dependent on each other.
Marshall KE4ZNR
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