MOTO TRBO Monitoring

[JASII]

Connect Systems CS700 Portable Radio Review | VA3XPR

So, if I buy one of these for amateur radio and also want to use it for monitoring DMR out-of-band, do I need:

-Frequencie(s)

-Color Code

-Time Slot

If there anything else that I would need?

 

[dtscho]

You also need the group number, easily found by using DMRDecode.

Dave

 

[racingfan360]

You also need to hope that the TRBO system you are monitoring is
- conventional
- unencrypted and
- not using RAS

If any one of these conditions is not met then your CS700 won't decode it, and you can't do anything about it either.

Jim

 

[dtscho]

Good points. DMRDecode can tell you whether the system is using Privacy (encryption), and whether the system is conventional. It cannot, as of the latest release, tell you whether the system uses RAS.

Dave

 

[mikewazowski]

You also need to hope that the TRBO system you are monitoring is
- conventional

I'm not that familiar with the CS700 but if it's like a Motorola, you won't have any problems monitoring a trunked system.

You just program in the frequencies as conventional.

 

[balibago]

also

Also you may be in luck if they are only using basic privacy as they are only 256 possibilities but don't get caught as it's illegal. We are still waiting for that Edward Snowden type to put out a hacker tool to defeat their advanced privacy option.