Hey all
Is it possible to monitor or do a non affiliate scan of a Connect Plus System with a Motorola XPR7550 or XPR6550 in UHF and 8/900 Mhz? If so how? Don't have the best knowledge in the DMR world yet. Thank You!
Yes, but MotoTRBO radios are fairly lousy for passively monitoring a Connect Plus System.
You're limited to 16 TGs in your receive group list and you have to enter every site frequency twice, once for each slot . Except for the control channel, just program TS 2. TS 1 will be the data channel.
So if you're dealing with a decent size system with dozens of talk groups you can see this will not be a good solution.
Connect Plus systems that I monitor are 10 and 15 repeater sites. I couldn't even fit all the voice paths into 1 zone conventionally.
You can use DSD+ or maybe a new DMR scanner for better results, or maybe try a Hytera radio.
I use the PD782 which offers better results for monitoring Con+. You can program each site frequency once as a pseudo trunk channel and the radio will watch each slot (again only program TS 2 for the CC freq). You can also have a larger group rx list. I have over 40 groups in my list for a large Con+ systems.
Still, it's not perfect.