how come you can't have MDC1200 on Apco channels?
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MDC and APCO?
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Because MDC-1200 is an audio modulation method (like a modem) to send small amounts if data over an analog radio channel.
P25 is a vocoded digital radio channel and will not send modem tones well (if at all).
P25 is a vocoded digital radio channel and will not send modem tones well (if at all).
It’s also a good idea to have your voice and MDTs on separate networks for redundancy. If one network goes down, they will still be able to communicate on their other network.
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Russell said:
MDC-1200 is a system for Unit ID, Status/Message and Emergency, not for MDT traffic.:roll:
so in terms on emergency switches and man down and unit id and all that, what kind of signalling is availble for an Apco conventional channel?
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Southtown800 said:
Those features are all included in the P-25 data stream.
ID, Emergency, Status, Short Message, Unit Name (I think).
It is up to radio companies to implement them in particular models of equipment.
that is what i am trying to figure out, because my company is implimenting a Apco 25 conventional system, we already have the equipment to do so, we just need to change formats after all the right paper work is done, we have a CAD to help with some of our bigger operations in diffrent departments, and i know when someone called on channel 3 wanting to call over to security, the unit name would pop up and the unit id,
so it would say,
Safety,
unit id 1250
and the staus, if we desired to check
so it would say,
Safety,
unit id 1250
and the staus, if we desired to check
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Southtown800 said:
Talk to your vendor. You are out of the realm of generic answers.
P25 has all that signalling possiblity. You can call (just make the RX radio beep), page (make the RX radio beep once every x seconds, and sends an ack back to the TX radio), and see messages and status of any unit so equiped or "flashed" for those options.
Nice thing about it is the fact that the unit data is continuously transmitted. You don't have to wait for a pre-id or have the radio stay keyed for a post-id. You can have unit names also (instead of numbers) if your radio supports it (called Soft ID by Motorola).
Nice thing about it is the fact that the unit data is continuously transmitted. You don't have to wait for a pre-id or have the radio stay keyed for a post-id. You can have unit names also (instead of numbers) if your radio supports it (called Soft ID by Motorola).
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