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P25 repeaters and mixed mode?
- Thread starter arlo
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Sure.
I belong to a few Amateur Radio clubs that have repeaters that operate in mixed mode. It's the operator's choice. The only bad thing is that if you are in P25, the analog users cannot use or hear what you're saying unless they have a P25-capable radio. The Motorola Quantar has been a leader in Hams using mixed mode (P25 & analog), but the Quantar is a legacy piece of equipment. Parts are harder to acquire because it isn't supported any longer.
Yes - There are standalone and linked systems in central, coastal and northern California that run mixed mode.
APX8000
Sarcastic Member
I'd be interested in hearing what the latest some of the ham guys here are using to link the P25 Quantars while keeping the internal repeat audio path.
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We are using back to back Quantars connected via v.24. Link Quantar is set up as a base. It works very well.
prcguy
Member
It would be nice to find a place where it tells you exactly what to buy, how to hook it up and how to program it for linking Quantars. Like a "Quantar linking for dummies" web site.
I wish we could network them over the internet, but several sites don't have internet access, so we set up a link radio connected via v.24. Works like a champ.
Project25_MASTR
Millennial Graying OBT Guy
There is an existing solution that allows Quantar's V.24 to be converted DFSI. There is also an active project that is developing an alternate method to accomplish the same function specifically to allow Quantars to be integrated with DVM Project which will allow DFSI control of Quantars and integration via DVM Project's controller (even trunking).
Some of the agencies in my area (Sacramento Valley) that aren’t on a trunking system used mixed-mode on their conventional repeaters. Analog for day-to-day operations, and digital for running record checks encrypted, or if not encryption just to have a clearer voice when on the fringe of coverage. All on the same frequency, and knob position, they just use the concentric switch to go back and fourth.
I maintain several mixed mode P25/analog systems. They use RF Technologies/Icom Eclipse2 repeaters (inherited the customers/systems from a competitor that went out of business). Have several that use onboard voting and with vote scan, makes a very robust system. TT
APX8000
Sarcastic Member
I second that motion.
In east Texas by any chance?
No, but I do know those guys. The same guys who set up my system set up that system....... TT.
