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Astro Vs Apco

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No and yes. Astro is just a brand name of a Motorola product line. APCO is the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials. What you are concerned with is IMBE (improved multi-band excitation) which is the digital voice for APCO's Project 25.

Astro is a line of Moto's public safety radios that are capable of IMBE, so if you have a APCO P25 "digital" scanner then you will be able to hear IMBE from an astro radio, provided it is not encrypted.
 
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yes, with a caveot... Motorola's "ASTRO" term also covered their VSLEP line as well, although this is a dying breed.

IMBE is also used in MaCom's provoice, which cannot be monitored on a scanner...

granted, most of the time "ASTRO" and "IMBE" are used to refer to APCO P25
 
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grem467 said:
yes, with a caveot... Motorola's "ASTRO" term also covered their VSLEP line as well, although this is a dying breed.

IMBE is also used in MaCom's provoice, which cannot be monitored on a scanner...

granted, most of the time "ASTRO" and "IMBE" are used to refer to APCO P25
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I was pretty sure that Motorola used "ASTRO" for VSELP and "ASTRO25" for APCO25....

But what does anybody in these forums know about anything right?.....
 
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I was pretty sure that Motorola used "ASTRO" for VSELP and "ASTRO25" for APCO25....

But what does anybody in these forums know about anything right?.....
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They are BRAND NAMES, they can be used by the company that owns them for ANYTHING that they want to use them for.

There are lots here who know things, but there are fair more who don't.

It's your job to sort it out.:twisted::twisted:

http://www.radioreference.com/forums/showpost.php?p=171210&postcount=2

http://www.radioreference.com/forums/showpost.php?p=689432&postcount=7

http://www.radioreference.com/forums/showpost.php?p=14905&postcount=25

http://www.radioreference.com/forums/showpost.php?p=451255&postcount=91

And many other posts.
 
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N_Jay said:
It's your job to sort it out.:twisted::twisted:
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NO, I'm pretty sure it's YOUR job to sort it out for the rest of us.... and be a PITA in the process. :twisted: :lol:
 
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