Astro Saber and trunking

[Astrogoth13]

Howdy,

I know it can be done, in theory, but has anyone on here done it themselves? Analog mode only? One system or more? Must you have firmware 6.7 or can you have a newer release, like 7.7? Number of talkgroups?

Thanks guys.

 

[rescue161]

I don't understand the question. We have a few Astro Sabers on our trunking system here.

 

[Astrogoth13]

I don't understand the question.

Looks like nobody else on this board does either.

 

[rescue161]

As long as the flash supports trunking, then there should be no problem. All of our talk groups are analog.

What model of Astro Saber do you have? Most of ours are model 1s that only support up to 32 modes/talk groups/channels. Some (model 3s) support up to 255 modes/talk groups/channels.

 

[Astrogoth13]

Astro Sabers with a host firmware older than 6.70 won't support trunking. 6.70 does. The very latest, 7.71.06, I'm not sure about. The AS wasn't designed to be a trunking god. The XTS's do that.
The AS is just a suped up Saber. It has it's limits.

 

[rescue161]

Astro Sabers with a host firmware older than 6.70 won't support trunking. 6.70 does. The very latest, 7.71.06, I'm not sure about. The AS wasn't designed to be a trunking god. The XTS's do that.
The AS is just a suped up Saber. It has it's limits.

Not sure where you got this info, but it's wrong. I have several Astro Sabers sitting right here that are on a trunking system that have a host of R05.52.08 with a DSP of N06.04.12 that are all working fine. There has been even older firmware than that that did trunking. The Astro Saber is not just a suped up Saber as Sabers were never able to do trunking, nor were they ever capable of digital. Systems Sabers were the only version that would do trunking before the Astro Saber came out. :wink:

 

[mancow]

I think they are referring to true ASTRO25 trunking. There was a specific host / dsp combo that allowed for it. If I recall correctly it was a matter of firware memory. Some things had to be left out to accommodate the code to support it.


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[mikewazowski]

The AS wasn't designed to be a trunking god. The XTS's do that. The AS is just a suped up Saber. It has it's limits.

There's very few differences between the XTS3000 and the Astro Saber. They even use the same RSS to program. If you consider the XTS a trunking god, then the Astro Saber would be included in that description as well. Just a little bulkier but the workings are the same as the XTS3K.

Except for a similar external appearance and some accessories, the Astro Saber and the Saber don't share anything in common. There's no way anybody would consider the Astro Saber a souped up Saber.

 

[kb9sxk]

Astro Sabers with a host firmware older than 6.70 won't support trunking. 6.70 does. The very latest, 7.71.06, I'm not sure about. The AS wasn't designed to be a trunking god. The XTS's do that.
The AS is just a suped up Saber. It has it's limits.

Dude..What?

I think you might want to do some reading.

There is this thing called Project 16. (Indiana Safe-T)

 

[MattSR]

XTS3000 and ASTRO Saber firmware is EXACTLY the same.

Anything an XTS3000 can do, an ASTRO Saber can do too.