Quantar in Site Trunking

[MatthiasTHM]

Hello, everyone!

I had purchased a Motorola Quantar VHF R2 with a IntelliRepeater board. When I power the Quantar up and it is running, my portable/mobile radios says that the repeater is in Site Trunking. I know what Site Trunking means, but I would like to find out how to get out of it with the other devices or resources I need.

The Quantar is currently being set up as an amateur repeater with Motorola Type II VOC. I would like to get it fully operational and have the first amateur trunking system in the state of South Dakota.

Thanks and 73!

 

[KevinC]

Hello, everyone!

I had purchased a Motorola Quantar VHF R2 with a IntelliRepeater board. When I power the Quantar up and it is running, my portable/mobile radios says that the repeater is in Site Trunking. I know what Site Trunking means, but I would like to find out how to get out of it with the other devices or resources I need.

The Quantar is currently being set up as an amateur repeater with Motorola Type II VOC. I would like to get it fully operational and have the first amateur trunking system in the state of South Dakota.

Thanks and 73!

If that command came from the core you may be screwed. Years ago we took a bunch of Quantars out of service , we did a "site off" first and couldn't reuse them until they received a "wide-area" command. So we had to add them to an active site and send the command. This was a 4.1Z system.

 

[wobble8]

Do you know the p/n of the controller board? CLN6960 or some such?
i *think* you can configure it to not site trunk via the RSS, but it's been
years since we replaced the quantars with GTR's

 

[prcguy]

If the controller board is an Epic IV CLN7692 or DLN1229 or maybe another # it can be trunking only and not suitable for a typical amateur setup. Otherwise you should be able to reconfigure RSS for a conventional repeater or worst case create a new personality in RSS then download.

 

[MatthiasTHM]

It originally had a conventional/6809 SmartZone board in it when I won it on eBay. I decided to get the CLN6960 IR board because it was the cheapest and easiest to find on eBay. I decided to do trunking because it would be fun and something new to try.

I still have the conventional board just in case I wanted to go back to conventional if trunking became unsuccessful.

 

[natedawg1604]

Hello, everyone!

I had purchased a Motorola Quantar VHF R2 with a IntelliRepeater board. When I power the Quantar up and it is running, my portable/mobile radios says that the repeater is in Site Trunking. I know what Site Trunking means, but I would like to find out how to get out of it with the other devices or resources I need.

The Quantar is currently being set up as an amateur repeater with Motorola Type II VOC. I would like to get it fully operational and have the first amateur trunking system in the state of South Dakota.

Thanks and 73!

Is there a currently a P25 trunking ham system in use anywhere in the Country?

 

[MatthiasTHM]

Is there a currently a P25 trunking ham system in use anywhere in the Country?

I am not sure. If so, I would imagine to see it would be on RadioReference or somewhere else. I can only do Type II analog/digital.

 

[MTS2000des]

I get it that some have a fetish for trunking, but without multiple subscribers and talk groups, such a system would never actually trunk. In my town of 5 million and thousands of supposedly active hams, only 2 or 3 repeaters see any daily use. Just saying, a lot of effort and futility for not much gain.

 

[ff026]

HamTrunk™

A Motorola Type II trunking system in the 70cm amateur band, typically deployed on a retired fire truck. - HamTrunk™

github.com

 

[tweiss3]

HamTrunk isn't P25, it's Motorola Type II Analog, or in EFJ world, its Viking16 trunking.

Even if you can find another Quantar to do P25 trunking, your next hurdle will be setting up a "core" to run it. Even if you can manage all that, getting legit keys made to program all the radios will be a huge task.

 

[mikewazowski]

Even if you can find another Quantar to do P25 trunking, your next hurdle will be setting up a "core" to run it. Even if you can manage all that, getting legit keys made to program all the radios will be a huge task.

You should check out the Digital Voice Modem Project: GitHub - DVMProject/dvmhost: MMDVM-based Digital Voice Modem Host Software

 

[tweiss3]

You should check out the Digital Voice Modem Project: GitHub - DVMProject/dvmhost: MMDVM-based Digital Voice Modem Host Software

I'm aware of DVM, but I also know they are in the midst of working out some quantar issues, though W3AXL does sell a modem board. DVM does a good job as a core though.

 

[Echo4Thirty]

If you go multi channel, how are you going to address the ID requirements of Part 97? A trunking system only IDs on one channel (lowest frequency if i remember correctly)

I suppose a single channel VOC system could address that, but then you are broadcasting a control channel

HamTrunk isn't P25, it's Motorola Type II Analog, or in EFJ world, its Viking16 trunking.

Even if you can find another Quantar to do P25 trunking, your next hurdle will be setting up a "core" to run it. Even if you can manage all that, getting legit keys made to program all the radios will be a huge task.

The OP is working to setup a VOC intellirepeater using Type II trunking according to his post. I suppose he could use CAI but it would not technically be a P25 trunked system.