Repurposing of GTR8000 Single Site System

[ki6goa]

Greetings All,

While I’ve been around ham radio and LMR for a while I’m a little out of my depth on this one and could use a hand. To set the scene, my friend and I work for an organization that converted a few years ago from a Motorola GTR8000 Single Site System, with the GTR8000 six-pack, runnng P25 on UHF to a MotoTRBO system. That in and of itself could be an all day discussion but not my call so I will digress.

Anyway, now a few years later, my friend and I have been given the go-ahead to repurpose some of the hardware from the old system. It cannot be re-sold due to grant considerations. That said, I’ll trying to figure out if there is a reasonable way to disassemble the six pack so the individual GTR8000 repeaters could be used as conventional standalone P25 repeaters at multiple locations.

Does anyone have any information on how this would be accomplished if it is reasonably possible?

 

[jeepsandradios]

To change from ESS to standa alone you need the stand alone chassis. MSI does not sell the stand alone chassis without going thrualot of hoops. You may be able to find some on the used market but they are far and few in between.

As for other hardware. Remove GTR transeiver Board, GTR PA, GTR Power supply and assemble in stand alone chassis. Done.

 

[N4KVL]

In addition, you'll need a 10Mhz reference at each site if the transceiver boards lack the internal reference option board.

 

[KevinC]

And the appropriate SWDL files to make them conventional.