response from rs
Thank you for the e-mail,
We are nearly certain that the PRO-96 will be compatible with both
legacy and rebanded Motorola systems. As you know, the PRO-96 includes a
"custom table" range configuration that allows up to six table
configurations to be defined for both Motorola and P25 trunked radio
systems. A custom table range configuration consists of a base frequency
(i.e., "Base = Channel 1"), a step size for the range (i.e., "Channel N
= Base + N * Step") and an offset value (i.e., "Offset the channel
number by this value").
In the current Motorola channel plan for the 800 MHz band, there are
four or five range definitions that allow Motorola radios to access
every frequency in the 800 MHz band. We know what these ranges are, and
have hard coded them into the PRO-96 and PRO-2096, so the radios behave
exactly like Motorola radios when trunking the 800 MHz band.
In testing the six custom ranges, we were able to successfully
trunktrack the 800 MHz Motorola systems by turning the custom range
feature on and hand programming the 4 or 5 ranges that Motorola uses to
define the 800 MHz band.
So...
Once the new Motorola bandplan for the reconfigured 800 MHz band is
known, it should be a very simple matter indeed to come up with the
correct base, step and offset values to make the PRO-96 and PRO-2096
track the 800 MHz band correctly on systems that have been rebanded.
With the exception of the actual channel tables themselves. We are aware
of what Motorola plans to do with the their 800 MHz channel mapping, and
are very confident that the PRO-96 and the PRO-2096 will be able handle
800 MHz rebanding just fine.
