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So this is the question i have a g4 but dmr convitional only? No trucking? [emoji20]
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No trunking. Fingers crossed it happens though.
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Wonder why my Trucking comment got deleted.
N6ML
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Mine too. Apparently smart*** comments are being censored.
So how come on the Taiwanese website of Unication, it specifically mentions DMR trunking? Why would it be not available here?
APX8000
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Revenue. It’s a public safety pager. Market is not here for Public Safety DMR.
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Well I was informed otherwise for DMR trunking and is my opinion that it has nothing to do with revenue. It's not like if they were selling a different pager that had DMR trunking and another without it. A simple firmware can activate it; just like when the G4/G5 got the conventionnal DMR upgrade.
Its not as simple as a firwmare update. Motorola Capacity Plus, Connect Plus, and Capacity Max are all proprietary trunking solutions using DMR and would require licensing to Motorola for the pagers to be able to properly trunk track the systems.
Also my post about my trucking comment being deleted was in reference to a comment last week i made.
The OP put trucking, not trunking and i made a funny comment about Trucking is not avaialbe either. Apparently it was delted with out my knowledge. So humor is no longer allowed on this site apparently.
OK then.....
But Unication will have to add this in the following years when DMR trunking is much more present.
Agencies (taxpayers) are tired of paying for P25 Trunking when you can get the quasi equivalent with DMR Trunking at 1/10 of the price.
APX8000
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I see County after County building out P25 Trunked systems all over the Country regardless of what the taxpayer has to say. Most will sell it as needed in the interest of public safety and before you know it, millions are spent. Rarely do you see questions from any politician like a County Commissioner asking those hard questions. Instead, they are presented with “old technology,” “interoperability,” “end of life,” etc. stories.
I don’t see Counties building out Tier III DMR systems for Public Safety. And they shouldn’t. They do for local government services to get them off the public safety systems, or they are built by private radio companies who lease it out to private companies. If they can’t get the money for a P25 trunked, most will upgrade infrastructure and go P25 conventional. Makes more sense.
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I don’t see Counties building out Tier III DMR systems for Public Safety. And they shouldn’t. They do for local government services to get them off the public safety systems, or they are built by private radio companies who lease it out to private companies. If they can’t get the money for a P25 trunked, most will upgrade infrastructure and go P25 conventional. Makes more sense.
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Hit_Factor
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I don't see agencies giving up P25 for DMR based on current tech.
At least not here in Michigan.
Smaller departments maybe but not large ones.
Project25_MASTR
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Its more of agencies are paying too much for P25 trunking because they are going with the brands they are familiar with. You can build a P25 trunking system for the same price as a Motorola Tier III Capacity Max system if you shop around and keep to backbone standards (DFSI).
For larger or growing systems, P25 is actually a better solution because of how it functions and how the subscibers adapt to system changes without user/technician intervention. DMR also doesn't have a provision for simulcast which requires the licensing of more spectrum (in areas were simulcast is actually easier to license).
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