KPG-180APK3 OTAP P25 Trunk

[people]

Is anyone running Kenwood's KPG-180APK3 (OTAP software) over a P25 trunk system?

If yes, does it work?
What is required to be configures on the mobiles/portables to accept OTAP?

 

[mmckenna]

Not on a P25 system, but I use KPG-150 on a NexEdge trunked system. It works well, saves a lot of running around manually programming radios.

As for KPG-180AP
It comes with 50 licenses (radios)
To program via a P25 conventional system, you need a KWD-QP3-P25 license, that allows P25 radio to radio communications. That's for the serial connection to a base station radio.

As for the individual NX-5xxx radios, it's just a function you turn on in the "Product Information" field for each radio you want to be able to OTAP.

 

[people]

Thank you mmckenna. Greatly appreciate your input with the experience from your system.

 

[mmckenna]

What's interesting about the P25 OTAP on the NX-5K radios is that on the page, it shows a license part number. Almost like it was set up to be a licensed per radio function. On my KPG-1 (a slightly out of date version) it's available for me to turn on.
Kenwood doesn't show it as a purchasable item on the price sheets, so I guess it's free/included with all of them.

On the NX-x00, NX-x10, NX-x20 radios we run, it's included and just a check box. I purchased the KPG-150 software when I purchased the rest of the system, and I'm really glad I did. I updated about 50 radios for our PD this week, and except for a few that were not active in the trunked system, they all updated without issue, all while I sat at my desk. I just had one of their guys make sure all the radios were turned on.