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Quantar Linking

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I was recently given two Motorola Quantars repeaters, VHF and UHF. This is my first foray into Quantars as I mainly used MTR's before going into DMR. A local club wants to replace their old Micor repeaters with these. I know you can interface these with an external controller to link them together.
Was just curious if there is a need for an external controller or if they can be tied directly together via programming and interface cables? They will be in the same physical rack as each other and we really have no need for an external controller.
 

redbeard

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If both have the v.24 board in them you can link via that and a standard ethernet jumper.
 

Project25_MASTR

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The 50 pair telco connector works well. I've done a bunch of analog Quantar linking via that (either to analog controllers or NXU-2A's). Pretty straight forward, you might need to do some wireline linking setup. Last time I worked on a project we used North Comm Technologies built cables (Mark even provided documentation on what wildcard functions to set for our purposes) and Arcom R210 controllers.
 
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