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I did some searching around, thinking this must have been attempted before.
I would like to take a MaxTrac 800 trunking radio, and replace its microcontroller and software with one of my own design. I really like the RF design of the radio, but programming frequencies requires 'NLA' software, and channel memories & channel steering are somewhat limited.
I imagine there is some identifiable interface in the radio where the software/microprocessor puts out a desired (digital) frequency, a tuning board acts on it, and the RF section follows. Am I oversimplifying?
Imagine a system consisting of:
1) Conventional MaxTrac tuning the control channel for flat (discriminator) audio.
2) UniTrunker processing the CCh Signal
3) Franken-Maxtrac receiving steering over USB/Serial and tuning.
Is the digital section in the MaxTrac complex? Documented? Does it have a significant analog component to the microprocessor output?
Feel free to punt me to the noob forum if this is well-traveled ground, or conversely, absurdly difficult.
I would like to take a MaxTrac 800 trunking radio, and replace its microcontroller and software with one of my own design. I really like the RF design of the radio, but programming frequencies requires 'NLA' software, and channel memories & channel steering are somewhat limited.
I imagine there is some identifiable interface in the radio where the software/microprocessor puts out a desired (digital) frequency, a tuning board acts on it, and the RF section follows. Am I oversimplifying?
Imagine a system consisting of:
1) Conventional MaxTrac tuning the control channel for flat (discriminator) audio.
2) UniTrunker processing the CCh Signal
3) Franken-Maxtrac receiving steering over USB/Serial and tuning.
Is the digital section in the MaxTrac complex? Documented? Does it have a significant analog component to the microprocessor output?
Feel free to punt me to the noob forum if this is well-traveled ground, or conversely, absurdly difficult.