UCSD Moto TRBO

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inigo88

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It's ridiculous how many people have switched in the last year or so. If you have the patience to set-up and learn a Linux operating system on your computer you can monitor TRBO with a discriminator tapped scanner and DSD, but it's quite an undertaking and there are a lot of things to tweak in order to make it work just right. "DMRDecode" is a lot easier to setup and works on Windows, but it will only tell you analytical information about the Trbo system (conventional, one of the trunked variants, color code (tone), talkgroup, etc) and not decode voice.

I hit a wall monitoring the UCSD system because I can either run DSD, or DMRDecode, but not both from the same computer/scanner... so I can't correlate which voice traffic corresponds to which talkgroup. Dang it! :)

P.S. Thanks Brian, I had forgotten the link!
 

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I hit a wall monitoring the UCSD system because I can either run DSD, or DMRDecode, but not both from the same computer/scanner
What about trying something like VirtualBox? I thought DMRDecode was not platform dependent (i.e., is Java based).
 

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I was never able to make DSD run on Ubuntu through VMWare, so I had to put it on a USB and boot from the USB at start-up. The problem is it's a tiny USB drive (1 GB) so I ran out of room between Ubuntu, DSD and Java Runtime Environment. Plus I'm not the most UNIX/Linux adept and was running into trouble figuring out how to get JRE to install in Ubuntu so that DMRDecode would open properly.

I think if I can get JRE installed in Ubuntu and running DMRDecode I should be able to start identifying talkgroups (even if the programs won't run concurrently, which has been said in some past threads), because I could just open one program after the other.
 
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