JethrowJohnson
Active Member
Good evening everybody,
About a week or two ago I heard that the Marietta Police Department wanted to use ARPA funds to buy digital radios so that they could switch to the Ohio MARCS-IP network. Today, I saw WTAP's report about it, and in their video they showed a Motorola XPR 3500e sitting in a charger on the desk. I just looked that radio up, and all my search results suggest that this is a DMR radio. MARCS isn't a DMR system, it's a P25 Phase I system. So can this model of radio also operate on P25 systems or was the first article I saw incorrect about what system they plan to use? Another discrepancy is that it also looks like this radio is capable of VHF/UHF only, but the Washington County site on MARCS uses the 700 MHz band.
About a week or two ago I heard that the Marietta Police Department wanted to use ARPA funds to buy digital radios so that they could switch to the Ohio MARCS-IP network. Today, I saw WTAP's report about it, and in their video they showed a Motorola XPR 3500e sitting in a charger on the desk. I just looked that radio up, and all my search results suggest that this is a DMR radio. MARCS isn't a DMR system, it's a P25 Phase I system. So can this model of radio also operate on P25 systems or was the first article I saw incorrect about what system they plan to use? Another discrepancy is that it also looks like this radio is capable of VHF/UHF only, but the Washington County site on MARCS uses the 700 MHz band.