richster
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On a standard Motorola 3600 baud mixed mode AstroII system, is it possible for a portable (xts5000) to call another portable on the same system via a phone patch?
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richster
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Impractical, absolutely. But is it even possible?
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N_Jay
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richster said:
Unless someone programmed the switch to disallow it.
My guess is the call would go out to the PSTN and then come back in.
I doubt anyone allows "Extension to extension" calls.
To make a phone call to a portable, wouldn't each radio need a phone number or an extension number? Do systems even allow incoming calls to radios? I don't know how systems are set up that have phone patches, so I'm asking?
Thanks,
Mike
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Mike
I was a user on a system for several years that allowed exactly what you described. About 99.99% of the time, however they just used private call. Most of the users who had a phone patch enabled on their radios also had private call enabled. On the system that I was on, they allowed the radios to have incoming calls. A person could call a radio by calling a local phone number then entering the radio's 4 digit extension number when prompted. The system was a Motorola type I analog 3600 bps smartnet system.
richster
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LOL. I should have read PJH's reply a little more carefully, I would have had my answer a long time ago. Thanks Landman for that personal confirmation, it's make a possible into fact.
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Richster.
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GlacierClipper
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Phone patches can be made from many types of radio equipment. The U.S. Government does it many times each day.
dhutsell
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mdulrich said:
YES my system allows direct phone calls to individual radios, we have a number for the officers to call and then they enter the radio number of the person they want and it rings right to their phone. Its an XTS 3000 on a type II system (Stone Mountain Park Georgia) in deklab county
DaveH
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I've seen phone interconnect traffic on a couple of commercial systems (Moto Type I and Type IIi) that show up as I-calls between the system and respective radio (if that makes sense). Two radios could "phone" each other on the same system I suppose, but that would occupy two channels; the patching occurs on dedicated channels. If there's only one channel for this, two radios couldn't call each other in this way. It would be rather inefficient anyway. I don't recall seeing private-call between radios on these systems though.
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