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Is there any way to use a Type I radio to monitor a rebanded system? Doesn't type I have fleet maps so therefore you would be able to change the channel lineup?
 

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No sir. Rebanding involved changing the frequencies designated to actual channel numbers in the Motorola logic. You and I know them as frequencies, but to a Motorola radio, they only know channel numbers. So prior to rebanding, 860.9875 might have been channel 128 (I'm just guessing here to use it as an example). Post-rebanding might mean that channel 128 is now a totally different frequency. So when the radio is listening to the control channel and receives a command that a talk group call request is being put on channel XXX, that will be a totally different frequency than what your old radio knows it to be. Hopefully I'm getting the point across.

The other fact is that I don't think there is any Type I systems still in use for public safety (but I could be wrong). I believe everyone as moved to at least a Type II or P25 type trunk system. A Type I radio will not work due to the mix of standard and splinter frequencies that the system will use.

The old Privacy Plus Type I radios are now only good for conventional, if they had that capability.
 
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The other fact is that I don't think there is any Type I systems still in use for public safety (but I could be wrong).

I sure as heck hope not :D
If there is one out there somewhere someone needs to hire a new
system admin and/or radio shop :cool:
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I understand the concept of rebanding. I thought that you set the lcn plan up through the software on type I systems like UHF and VHF trunking. I guess i thought wrong haha. But i do know you can listen to a type II system on a type I radio (at least with the standard GX5800T).
 

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ONLY if the system has only splinter or only standard frequencies. A type I radio will not work on a type II system that uses a combination of both sets of frequencies.
 
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