Motorola Type-II TGID's on the 96

[W2SJW]

Did I miss something in the transition from my 92 to the 96? - The 92 was limited to entering TGID's on the standard 16 digit spacing. I was working in open mode tonight on my 96, wondering why I wasn't getting the NJSP Turnpike dispatches out of Cranbury station - I noticed they where coming in on 53264. I had the 96 accidentally programmed with 53265. Then, I noticed that the scanner would take ANY TGID I entered from 00008 to the limit up at 65xxx for Type-II systems.

Has the 96 always been able to do this, or just since the CPU upgrade? And, does this mean I can do status-bit reception like emergency calls or multi-selects? If anyone else remembers theirs doing this out of the box, please get back to me.

TIA!

 

[CAT]

Well it does accept any TG number (I have the updated version 1.3) - this is very interesting! I have the emergency TG programmed, but I have not heard anything on it yet.

Can someone else with a PRO96, in a area that makes use of the emergency TG ID a little more often then they do around here, give this a try and report back if individual status-bit reception actually works?

 

[FPO703]

You have to remember that on a True P-25 system (with 9600 baud control channel) the TGs are not variants of 16 or 32. They are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc...
That's why the PRO-96 will allow 'any' TG to be entered.

 

[CAT]

So on an analogue system just because you can enter an emergency TG ID (ID+2) it doesn’t mean that it will follow it?

Damn, I was hoping that this was a way to get the PRO96 to act like a Uniden scanner with the status-bits toggled off.

 

[FPO703]

Nope. The PRO-96 doesn't recognize the status-bits