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Home Grown Trunking Question.

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Echo4Thirty said:
The other issue is while there are a ton of folks that maintain and admin these systems, the number who work in the factory to assemble, program and stage them is a lot less. In addition, the software tools required to stand up these systems often does not leave the factory floor, unlike the subscriber internal software.

Not saying its not do-able, some of those folks are on the various forums, but especially in a Motorola system, everything has to be just right and its a lot more than hooking up a few repeaters to a brand x network switch and a control channel appears.
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CCSi loads bare metal using COTS software (ie. RHEL, VMware, Windows, etc). The only proprietary tools are related to configuring network infrastructure (and those that know what I'm referring to are aware that is the one of the reasons field upgrades require engineering or ST support). Customer radios with legit dongles are usually employed for testing / FATP. "back-in-the-day" some engineers would use a shortcut, but it's frowned upon (and only if it was a CCSi in-house only subscriber).
 
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There is a commercial licensed UHF multisite P25 trunk system in my area assembled from non Motorola equipment not usually associated with trunking and it works. You just need the FCC license and knowledge on how to make the hardware work. A single site doesn't look all that bad to configure from the little I know about it but a multi site gets into a lot of networking headaches.
 
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P25 Control Channel on 462.900

To rehash an old post, it is in fact a new Icom P25 system that is being built by The Electronic Entities Group as noted above by d119. It will be present at all the legacy NSTN mountain tops. It's a combo of Icom and Etherstack technologies. Actually a pretty neat setup which was on display...
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