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VP8K NXDN NAS

aglowgibbon

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I learned something interesting today. The VP8K will conventionally NAS NXDN Trunked systems. Historically, this was not possible with the NX-5000 line of radios. They would ignore any trunked traffic if in a conventional mode, and there was no way to NAS without actually affiliating.

I was able to scan a few NXDN 4800 systems near me, and it worked flawlessly.
 

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Thanks again for posting this, I had heard it would not do it but they were wrong. Was easy to get working, I'll spend some more time tweaking it to my needs.
 

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I learned something interesting today. The VP8K will conventionally NAS NXDN Trunked systems. Historically, this was not possible with the NX-5000 line of radios. They would ignore any trunked traffic if in a conventional mode, and there was no way to NAS without actually affiliating.

I was able to scan a few NXDN 4800 systems near me, and it worked flawlessly.
Can you provide more details? Like how you programmed it to do this?
 

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I think he said he is just “scanning” the voice channels conventionally instead of operating in a trunking mode unaffiliated. Just put all voice channels in a scan list with TG you are interested in. He’s scanning not tracking.
 

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I think he said he is just “scanning” the voice channels conventionally instead of operating in a trunking mode unaffiliated. Just put all voice channels in a scan list with TG you are interested in. He’s scanning not tracking.

Thats what I was thinking. I havent messed with NXDN in over 10 years. Last I knew you couldn't NAS at all, the radio would have to register with the system. That was NX300 SU, I dont know about the new product lines.
 

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I just updated firmware to latest on VP8000. When checking my options I noticed my nxdn conventional option was not checked. Do I have to acquire or buy the option? I was under the impression it came with the previous update. I created a nxdn channel in cps and could not download plug into my radio because I didn't have the nxdn option. This is not crucial I just wanted to play with the nxdn conventional.
 
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