Luxor Hotel/Casino MotTrbo DMR?

[Disp46]

I just arrived at the Luxor late last night all ready to monitor their Kenwood NexEdge system which was live earlier in the year only to be surprised to see staff members wearing Motorola XPR 7550's or 7850's. They did not appear to have 800/900 MHz antennas so I am inclined to believe that they are UHF XPR7550's which would make sense since they had a UHF NexEdge system. I tried putting their legacy UHF frequencies into my scanner but I am getting zero activity.

Does anyone have any insight as to what they are running here?

 

[Disp46]

Update to my last post... I finally found some hits on the new Luxor MOTOTRBO DMR system. I worked my search ranges from UHF to 800 and then to 900 MHz. Once I searched in the 900 MHz range and got the hits and it is confirmed Luxor since I had enabled attenuation and removed the rubber duck scanner antenna and signal was rock solid. The Luxor NexEdge system is now deprecated. All staff here at Luxor are carrying Motorola MOTOTRBO XPR7580's.

Two very busy hits were on 937.925 and 939.9625 which are licensed to the Bellagio KNNF751 which also licenses a temporary, portable repeater system. So after plugging in the frequencies from the Bellagio FCC license I now am successfully monitoring Luxor (loud and clear, full signal with attenuation and no antenna on the scanner).

Frequencies are:

935.9125
936.4125
936.5000
936.9000
936.9750
937.4125
937.4750
937.9250 - confirmed active
938.4375
939.9625 - confirmed active

Talkgroups at Luxor are in the 50,000 series

TG's
50002 - Security
50018 - Housekeeping

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

Nice detective work

 

[737mech]

Did you narrow down any color codes?

 

[Disp46]

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Did you narrow down any color codes?

There are no color codes to narrow down, just talkgroups. It's Type 3 trunking.

 

[Mike-KC8OWL]

I recently started listening to all the Bellagio frequencies in conventional mode to see which ones had any activity since they have 3 (I think) active call signs with FCC currently. Of the freqs you have listed above I am seeing a lot of traffic on

936.4125 cc3
937.4125 cc6

I have not run a LCN finder on it yet -

Mike

 

[Disp46]

I recently started listening to all the Bellagio frequencies in conventional mode to see which ones had any activity since they have 3 (I think) active call signs with FCC currently. Of the freqs you have listed above I am seeing a lot of traffic on

936.4125 cc3
937.4125 cc6

I have not run a LCN finder on it yet -

Mike

It seems that Luxor is only running a 3-channel TDMA system (1 control, 4 voice paths) which puts them on voice capacity par with their old NexEdge system which was a 5-channel FDMA system (also 1 control, 4 voice paths). Active frequencies are 936.900 (Control Channel), 937.925 and 939.9625. The others from my initial posting are not in use at Luxor.

 

[kayn1n32008]

It seems that Luxor is only running a 3-channel TDMA system (1 control, 4 voice paths) which puts them on voice capacity par with their old NexEdge system which was a 5-channel FDMA system (also 1 control, 4 voice paths). Active frequencies are 936.900 (Control Channel), 937.925 and 939.9625. The others from my initial posting are not in use at Luxor.

I believe Tier 3 DMR only uses one timeslot for control, so there is likely 5 voice paths.

 

[Disp46]

I believe Tier 3 DMR only uses one timeslot for control, so there is likely 5 voice paths.

I administer both a P25 trunk system as well as a MOTOTRBO trunking system and I raised the question of a TDMA control channel. I was told that the control channel is FDMA, just as in P25 although a P25 TDMA control channel standard has been approved. To my knowledge, none have been deployed yet.

 

[KG7PBS]

I want to know why the left the NXDN System. I prefer NXDN over DMR. It sounds so much better

 

[GTR8000]

I administer both a P25 trunk system as well as a MOTOTRBO trunking system and I raised the question of a TDMA control channel. I was told that the control channel is FDMA, just as in P25 although a P25 TDMA control channel standard has been approved. To my knowledge, none have been deployed yet.

Trunked DMR systems that feature a dedicated control channel (Connect Plus, Capacity Max, Tier III) employ a TDMA control channel. Control on one slot, second slot available for traffic.

 

[737mech]

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[KG7PBS]

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what did you delete I want to know what was said by you