Moto-II Pretty cool stuff maynard

[Pro-95]

So here I am in Salt Lake the land of Moto-II and yaking a plenty (comparedto Reno anyway)

I went to the local Radio Shack to pick up a Cat5 cable and while I was there I deceided to have them program my Pro-95. Well needless to say their Pro-95 was only partially programmed and no explanation or information on who you where listening to was given. Even the alpha's were missing which is a huge selling point for the Pro-95/96. I even had to have them install batteries in their scanner so I could clone the 95. :roll:

But all wasn't lost because I learned seomthing about Moto-II I didn't know. Apparently you really only need to program the control channel and the scanner will "fill in the blanks" of ALL the missing other channels.

I did a test and sure as polar bears are white, with just programing one control channel I can listen in to the entire Moto-II system. Pretty cool if you ask me, scan the 800Mhz for the control channels store them in a bank set it up as moto and voila.

Oh well I thought it was cool anyway.....

Now to go identify these 3 new UCAN moto-II systems I found.

 

[loumaag]

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But all wasn't lost because I learned seomthing about Moto-II I didn't know. Apparently you really only need to program the control channel and the scanner will "fill in the blanks" of ALL the missing other channels.

I did a test and sure as polar bears are white, with just programing one control channel I can listen in to the entire Moto-II system. Pretty cool if you ask me, scan the 800Mhz for the control channels store them in a bank set it up as moto and voila.
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Mike!

You got questions, we got answers! :lol:

Please refer to this post (to you) where you will find this comment:

...Remember your 95 is like real radios in that it uses CC mode only. You don't need anything programed but the CC's for Moto (of course unless you are sure what they are, it is best to put all of known frequencies in so you don't miss anything.) You can take a very large motorola SmartZone system and if you know all of the CC's (and alt cc's) for the system, you can just put them in a bank and drive around all day long and your 95 will track wonderfully. ...

I guess you were in pack up and get out o' here mode when you read that. :lol:

Hope you are having a good time!

 

[Pro-95]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Yep, zipped right past that.

 

[Pro-95]

So what is the benefit of prgramming all the frequencies? I understand that a Moto system can't change the CC as easily as the EDACS can? Seems that if you have programmed your TG's based on banks that you could scan much faster from bank to bank with only one channel in a bank.

 

[loumaag]

So what is the benefit of prgramming all the frequencies? I understand that a Moto system can't change the CC as easily as the EDACS can? Seems that if you have programmed your TG's based on banks that you could scan much faster from bank to bank with only one channel in a bank.

I am not sure I understand this view. Moto sites can have any of 4 channels at the site become the CC (depends on programing/system setup). In practice they used to set it up so they would rotate through all four on a regular basis (sharing the load) but they don't do that anymore. (Some older setups are still doing this.)

Although I am sure they do, I have never monitored an EDACS system where the CC changed ever. Of course you have to have all the channels programed anyway so it really makes no difference.

As for putting all of the channels in for a Moto system, well as I said, you should only do that if you don't know what the CC's and alt's are. By all means, if you know the CC's and alt's then only put them in but remember, the change to a previously unused channel for CC in a Moto system is only a few mouse clicks away for the system admin. :lol:

The radios in the field do not need to be notified of this change as they will find the CC by themselves. They are only programed with the frequencies that are likely to be CC's at the time they are programed. As long as a radio knows it's "home" system ID, it will find the system, even if no channels are programed as CC channels. (It does have to have the proper base/offset/step of course for the frequency plan.)

 

[Pro-95]

Thanks Lou!

See even an old dog can learn new tricks. Thanks for the help and clarifiying some misunderstandings.