ProVoice

[Thayne]

If somebody has some software that makes a PRO-96 decode ProVoice audio if scanned conventionally, (with the caveat that it makes the PRO-96 not work for APCO 25 at the same time)-- Do you think DVSI or MA/com or Rat Shack would sue ?

Any thoughts?

 

[Thayne]

OK I guess Amber is more impotent than ProVoice--

I meant interesting, not impotent

 

[rdale]

If you keep that info quiet and never release or inform anyone else? No. If you try to distribute - Yes.

 

[smart6]

Orion Help

I am trying to get Pro-Voice on my Orion. Currently I do not have the feature "29" loaded in the radio. Is there a download "patch" or something I can get from someone/somewhere to install into my radio? I have the ProGrammer software and the Radio Maintenance Software. Please advise, thanks.

 

[WCRadioGuy]

You would need the ROM S/N out of the radio using radio maintenance. But, M/A-Com is the only one that can give you a new feature string to upgrade to provoice.

 

[nhiester]

smart,

First your Orion has to be capable of pro-voice, meaning it has to be the right generation, some of the older orions were out before pro-voice existed. Second, you have to pay M/A-Com for the feature and they will send you an updated encrypted feature string to enter into your radio. All the features from M/A-COM are in your radio depending on the generation and capabilities at the time it was manufactured, it just takes the right feature string to turn them on. This feature string is encrypted and is in Hex format. It is different for every radio and based on the Electronic Serial number, so you are kind of stuck.

 

[N_Jay]

If somebody has some software that makes a PRO-96 decode ProVoice audio if scanned conventionally, (with the caveat that it makes the PRO-96 not work for APCO 25 at the same time)-- Do you think DVSI or MA/com or Rat Shack would sue ?

Any thoughts?

You could buy a development kit from DVSI, then you could start looking at the provoice bit streem to reverse engineer where the IMBE packets are, then feed them into the DVSI box/board and see what you get?

 

[Thayne]

That post was last year; I saw it work, but nobody seemed to care--and I didn't want to get in trouble myself or get anyone else in trouble. It decoded the audio about the same as a pro-96 does on APCO-25.

The problem is it would only work in conventional mode. The guy never could get it to trunktrack the ProVoice groups, in fact when the software was loaded it wouldn't trunktrack anything. Now I heard he went back to Romania.
Hell, I have trouble just keeping my PC in line