MDC Tool

[FoxMcCloud]

I'm new to MDC and Motorola. I have a few HT1250's and a GMRS license. There's a video on youtube describing the MDC Stun feature

. What program is this? Where can I get it? What will I need for it? Are there any easy and cheap alternatives? Sorry for asking all these questions but Google did not yield any results for me. Since I'm using my radios on GMRS I don't want some jerk to stun my radio while I'm working.

 

[SteveC0625]

Stun (and Kill) are MDC features in dispatch consoles. They are rarely seen anywhere else.

If you don’t enable MDC on the receive side,

Stun and Kill are effectively disabled. There’s not much need for MDC in GMRS anyway.

I had MDC running for a while on my GMRS radios and since it’s me and the wife only, it got annoying fast.

 

[Giddyuptd]

A downside with it is anyone can see your id, a maliciously send a kill command from a radio that is capable of sending commands.

While it don't happen much it can.

 

[FoxMcCloud]

Stun (and Kill) are MDC features in dispatch consoles. They are rarely seen anywhere else.

If you don’t enable MDC on the receive side,

Stun and Kill are effectively disabled. There’s not much need for MDC in GMRS anyway.

I had MDC running for a while on my GMRS radios and since it’s me and the wife only, it got annoying fast.

Thanks, I have all motos on freq so it mutes the full ack. I agree the full ack will get annoying really fast. I deployed motos for our work and have MDC enabled for identification. I had two motos die last week, now that I know stun and kill only will work if MDC is enabled for receive. That was just due to a failure of the radio.

 

[FoxMcCloud]

A downside with it is anyone can see your id, a maliciously send a kill command from a radio that is capable of sending commands.

While it don't happen much it can.

As the other user was mentioning, will this only happen if MDC is enabled on received? Won't they also need the DPL tone my radios are set to?

 

[Giddyuptd]

If your radio isn't set to accept checks or stun then you are fine.

If it is only allowing mdc on pl/dpl proper decoding then you are fine.

If it Wil accept mdc data on anything csq to pl/dpl and is enabled for stun or check then it'll respond to that.

 

[gatekeep]

He's showing my MDCTool application; which I had released on Microsoft's CodePlex a long time ago. CodePlex has since shutdown, and obviously I think that repository/project there is gone. But you can find the code here: gatekeep/MDCTool

Its just a fancy UI stuck on-top of a port of Matthew Kaufman's MDC1200 C libraries (which you can find here: atmatthewat/mdc-encode-decode).

Be aware this software (other then the README I added today...) hasn't been touched in several years and I give no warranties or support for it.

 

[FoxMcCloud]

Thanks for everyone's help

 

[FoxMcCloud]

He's showing my MDCTool application; which I had released on Microsoft's CodePlex a long time ago. CodePlex has since shutdown, and obviously I think that repository/project there is gone. But you can find the code here: gatekeep/MDCTool

Its just a fancy UI stuck on-top of a port of Matthew Kaufman's MDC1200 C libraries (which you can find here: atmatthewat/mdc-encode-decode).

Be aware this software (other then the README I added today...) hasn't been touched in several years and I give no warranties or support for it.

Thanks for posting that, I'll try it out in a VM

 

[FoxMcCloud]

If your radio isn't set to accept checks or stun then you are fine.

If it is only allowing mdc on pl/dpl proper decoding then you are fine.

If it Wil accept mdc data on anything csq to pl/dpl and is enabled for stun or check then it'll respond to that.

How do I configure my radio to do that in CPS?

 

[Giddyuptd]

Under mdc, there should be boxes to tick to enable radio check, radio stun in the mdc personality menu for each personality.

 

[FoxMcCloud]

Under mdc, there should be boxes to tick to enable radio check, radio stun in the mdc personality menu for each personality.

I uncked radio checking here, but there does not seem to be an option in the conventional personalities

 

[gatekeep]

The Waris line of radios always has the Radio Check, Stun and Revive commands enabled. I do not believe there is an option in the CPS to change those settings.

 

[FoxMcCloud]

There was a check box for radio check. I disabled that. I turned on only accept data on proper dpl tones. I used it today and had no problems