Kenwood NEXEDGE Site Roaming Setup

[LifeCare]

Hi Folks,
I am trying to get site roaming setup with two NXR-710 repeaters. Both repeaters are connected via network. The main repeater does have a couple of nxr-710 voters networked back to it and they work fine. Installed the second repeater and followed the help guide for multi site roaming and the repeaters are not bringing up each other.

Looking at the network traffic I can see traffic coming from the main repeater to the 2nd repeater and it does nothing else. Same with the 2nd repeater to the main.

I was wondering if someone would share some screen shots of there setup from the programming. I think I am missing a check box somewhere

Thank you in advance,

Richard

 

[kd4efm]

Yes, there is a missing step.
I will post that shortly because I did that same thing. Has to do with the way calls are handled. I have a 4 site school system where the ran codes are different at each site.

I had a certain selection wrong and you can remotely program it to fix it.

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[LifeCare]

Thank you

 

[kd4efm]

Okay here we go,
(Anniversary dinner, sorry this is late)

EDIT/IP CONV NETWORK/ GENERAL TAB
Intersite call, check
IP CAST: Unicast
max jitter 400
min 80
NETWORK WIDE RAN: SITE DEPENDENT <-- (if you are using different ran codes per site)

Site Roaming
Beacon, check
Duration 1200
TIT: 60


Note about NetWideRan:

Network-wide RAN allows a field engineer to configure whether the repeater receiving an Intersite Call uses the same RAN Encode code as was used for the transmitting repeater or a unique RAN Encode code is granted to each repeater.
Range:

Caller Site:

Conventional repeaters interconnected via the IP network can transmit using the same RAN Encode code as was used to transmit by the transmitting repeater.
Using this configuration enables change of the RAN code per each call; hence, if the same channel needs to be used by multiple groups, each group can be distinguished by using a RAN code.​

Site Dependent:

Conventional repeaters interconnected via the IP network can transmit using a unique RAN Encode code granted to each repeater.
This configuration can be adopted if there are adjacent repeaters that are using the same frequency and the RAN code needs to be used to distinguish the repeaters, or if a RAN Encode code is determined due to the licensing conditions of frequency allocation, etc.​

Default:

Caller Site​

 

[LifeCare]

Thank you and Happy Anniversary.. Those are the settings I have in place currently.

Under the site roaming section, what do you have for host repeater?

Thank you,
Richard

 

[ramal121]

For host repeater pick one as primary to sync the beacons. Since there is only one other site, that one could be either secondary or continuous deselected.

You have entered the IP addresses of both sites in under the network tab. Did you enable the opposing site in the channel edit menu?

 

[LifeCare]

So a little blonde moment here. Under the Channel edit --> Network Setting I forgot the click the Conventional IP network box.. Once I did that and wrote the programming everything came up like it should. I did some testing today on portable and it seems to work fine. If this goes well I will be adding two more sites to the mix for a complete county wide system.

For the folks currently running site roaming any additional tips or tricks that would like share. Seems to be straight forward and I used the default settings.

Thanks