G5 MCSO Phoenix ?

[mswells]

Will the G5, or G4 also work for MCSO in Phoenix ? I know it does P25. They are
APCO 25.
System Type:
Motorola Type II SmartZone

System Voice:
Analog and APCO-25 Common Air Interface

 

[Thunderknight]

No. It does not do Type II trunking. The voice may be P25, but if the control is still Type II, then the G5 will not work.
It has to be a full P25 (P25 control channel with P25 voice) system for the G4/G5.

Edit: I should maybe expand a bit. It MIGHT (never tried it, don't know for sure) scan the voice channels conventionally, with NO trunking capability. However on a big system that would probably be a fruitless endeavor.

 

[mswells]

So Theoretically if I was to put in the frequencies for a nearby site (851.125 851.175 851.325 851.775a 853.825c 857.8625 858.2625 ). It would scan them and pick up any voice transmission...even though the MCSO site uses: APCO 25.
System Type:
Motorola Type II SmartZone
And is it still necessary to add in the talk groups...or it will just pickup anything on the voice channels?

 

[b1100mac]

You guys are making this way too hard, the Maricopa County sheriffs office currently uses the Maricopa County Motorola system and it will work fine on your G5. Go to the database, load the control channels for the site(s) you want, and load the talk groups you want and you are done.
You will also note that in the R/R database it shows a Maricopa County P-25 phase 2 system that is currently in the testing mode. One would assume that when they are done testing that the sheriffs office will migrate to this system and then we would need the upcoming phase 2 upgrade to our radios to hear them, but my money is on the upgrade coming far sooner than MCSO switching systems.

 

[mswells]

b1100mac...have you verified that the G5 can receive: APCO 25.
System Type:
Motorola Type II SmartZone ? MCSO
Rays pager sales didn't think it would work on that type of system....just P25.

 

[Thunderknight]

You guys are making this way too hard, the Maricopa County sheriffs office currently uses the Maricopa County Motorola system and it will work fine on your G5. Go to the database, load the control channels for the site(s) you want, and load the talk groups you want and you are done.
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According to the DB and what was posted here, the system is a SmartNet system. Not P25. Everything posted to date is that the Unication only supports P25 trunking.
APCO P25 voice on a SmartNet system is not the same as a P25 system.

Is this the system we are discussing? http://www.radioreference.com/apps/db/?sid=848

 

[Thunderknight]

So Theoretically if I was to put in the frequencies for a nearby site (851.125 851.175 851.325 851.775a 853.825c 857.8625 858.2625 ). It would scan them and pick up any voice transmission...even though the MCSO site uses: APCO 25.
System Type:
Motorola Type II SmartZone
And is it still necessary to add in the talk groups...or it will just pickup anything on the voice channels?

If it works as I THINK it would, you program all the voice channels (not the CCs) as P25 conventional and create a scanlist of them. You will hear all traffic on the site, there is no limiting the TGs to just what you want.
If there is a lot of traffic of mixed kinds on the site, this will not work well as you will have a very hard time following a conversation.

 

[b1100mac]

I was pretty sure when I was down there around Christmas I was hearing Maricopa County sheriffs office as I had programed the system into the radio. I now wonder if I could have been confused because after just talking with John at Unication, he states that the radio does not support at Apco 25 SmartNet which is actually a P 16 system. Unfortunately I don't have a copy of that program to go back and reference to but I definitely was hearing something. I guess You will just have to load it up and see what he can hear