Making a call with Motorola XPR 7550e

[hurricaneoleg]

Hello everyone.

I've read in one of the brochures that Motorola XPR radios have the ability to make phone calls via something called RBX or other means. Without getting too technical and wasting your time on me, can you explain how one would go about connecting this radio to the phone lines via wifi or am I delusional about the ability of this radio to work like a VOIP phone?! Or, like everything else with Motorola, does it require purchasing additional costly hardware and/or entitlements? Because, in this case, using it as an overly complicated two-way transceiver is more than enough for me for the foreseeable future, now that I know how to program it and make it work exactly as I want it to.

Thank you!

 

[mmckenna]

You would need an interface to connect to the phone service (VoIP or analog/POTS).
Some repeaters/trunked systems will do that. There are external interfaces that will do it.

 

[Firebuff880]

You are "delusional" !! Telephone interconnect is through the repeaters, uses one slot per call and requires EIDs in the repeaters and an Asterisk or similar IPBX with the App-rpt module connected to the rear of the repeater. (Cap Max systems are a totally different technology.)

Of course you could always sell the XPR and get an Ion, after the June release you may be able to use the way you propose.

 

[ElroyJetson]

Then again there's always the old school analog voice autopatch controlled via DTMF, but that's so 20th century and anybody can listen to your call. But that'll be on a separate analog repeater channel anyway.