I have an XTS with the flashcode 500008-000488-2, I believe it can in theory do P-25 but I am unable to adjust many things in the "trunking system" part in CPS such as site ID and even enter talkgroups. This is my first time playing around with any astro p25 options as I've always been using digital. Am trying to set it up to listen and not transmit.
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XTS2500 on a P25 system
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Affiliation to the desired system is a real issue and Motorola radios will try to affiliate.
If you do not have experience in Moto programming software, you have a very steep and frustrating learning curve ahead of you. Tread cautiously.
If you do not have experience in Moto programming software, you have a very steep and frustrating learning curve ahead of you. Tread cautiously.
I have only used the older Motorola software for analog radios. This is in many ways different
Unless you have a system key for the P25 trunking system you are trying to edit then you won't be able to make any changes in those fields. This needs to be left to someone who has the know-how to do the programming or you can create some serious issues.
Hmmm I will have to look further into it as I would like to use this XTS2500 as a desktop scanner but I would need to figure out how to find some of this info out
You’re going to need either a system key (which you can’t get here and don’t ask how to get one) or depot CPS (again, you can’t get here and don’t ask how to get it).
As said the reason you can't modify trunking system or talk groups is you need a system key. The system key is provider by the administrators of the radios system. They dont just hand those out. Your better off selling the radio and getting a good scanner.
It's going to be a terribly frustrating and inefficient desktop scanner.
There are better devices out there for that task.
N4KVE
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If programmed properly it will blow any scanner away. But if the OP is asking here, he’s not familiar with NAS, & needs to find someone who is. The probability his radio will affiliate is too great, so the simple solution is to buy a scanner that won’t simulcast for 5 times the price of the radio he already has, that does. Here’s the start of a long journey.
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KG7PBS
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Don’t mind Kevinc I have plenty of XTS listening to P-25 systems. They work well. But I will tell you if you don’t know anything about trunking then don’t play with it.
I never said they wouldn’t work.
KG7PBS
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You did come off a little harsh so that’s why I mentioned you.
Oh, ok. Weird.
I have always been a fan of Motorola radios and do know what most probably do not know about trunking. This is just my first experience with actually programming these radios. It is never fun when people come at you and tell you to get what you dont want. I am always welcome to a challenge!
Do you want to monitor a Trunked system with a Moto? Read This!
Here are the key facts that you need to know about monitoring a TRS with your /\/\otorola radio: Programming of Motorola Radios is done with software called CPS - see the sticky in this forum for info on how to legally obtain it - it's actually quite easy; Motorola is glad to sell it to you...
Non affiliated scan is not difficult to set up in principle but you need to be paying attention to all the rules of the setup to be assured of safety.
Here's the briefest summary of how non affiliated scanning works. This presumes you have solved all problems relating to access to system keys of any required type.
Here's the operational summary:
Create a zone that contains 16 conventional channels in slots 1 thru 16. And trunked systems in slots 17 thru whatever.
Trunked systems are NEVER NEVER NEVER placed in slots 1 thru 16 on ANY zone. They stay above 16, where they can NOT be accessed via the rotary knob.
The beauty, the glory of it, the thing that makes it all possible, is that a conventional channel can have a scan list attached to it that contains only trunked talkgroups. We're going to abuse the heck out of this feature!!!
Channel 1 is conventional and slaved to trunked scan list 1.
Channel 2 is conventional and slaved to trunked scan list 2.
Channel 3 is conventional and slaved to trunked scan list 3.
----and so forth----
Channel 16 is conventional and slaved to trunked scan list 16.
Channel 17 (and higher channels) are trunked personality entries, the ones referenced by the trunked scan lists.
Repeat on each zone as needed.
To be clear about this, for safety's sake, there is no CHAN or SUB menu entry in the radio which would ever allow you to directly access above channel 16 in any group. This makes it impossible for the radio to affiliate on any trunked system programmed in the radio.
You do need to keep very careful track of how the slaved scan lists are configured and assigned.
Scan characteristics need to be paid attention to as well. (Priority settings, etc.)
Here's the operational summary:
Create a zone that contains 16 conventional channels in slots 1 thru 16. And trunked systems in slots 17 thru whatever.
Trunked systems are NEVER NEVER NEVER placed in slots 1 thru 16 on ANY zone. They stay above 16, where they can NOT be accessed via the rotary knob.
The beauty, the glory of it, the thing that makes it all possible, is that a conventional channel can have a scan list attached to it that contains only trunked talkgroups. We're going to abuse the heck out of this feature!!!
Channel 1 is conventional and slaved to trunked scan list 1.
Channel 2 is conventional and slaved to trunked scan list 2.
Channel 3 is conventional and slaved to trunked scan list 3.
----and so forth----
Channel 16 is conventional and slaved to trunked scan list 16.
Channel 17 (and higher channels) are trunked personality entries, the ones referenced by the trunked scan lists.
Repeat on each zone as needed.
To be clear about this, for safety's sake, there is no CHAN or SUB menu entry in the radio which would ever allow you to directly access above channel 16 in any group. This makes it impossible for the radio to affiliate on any trunked system programmed in the radio.
You do need to keep very careful track of how the slaved scan lists are configured and assigned.
Scan characteristics need to be paid attention to as well. (Priority settings, etc.)
Thank you for this, I have already been looking around and figuring things out. But this was a big help. And I have to thank you again for being direct and not trying to spin this in another direction
No problem. You gave me enough information to suggest that you're competent, sufficiently experienced, and can probably handle this.
I feel the faintest trace of responsiblity any time someone uses this method, since I may have been the guy who invented it. At the very least I was the first guy to write up how to do it and it seemed to be a new achievement in the moto scanning hobby world at the time.
I feel the faintest trace of responsiblity any time someone uses this method, since I may have been the guy who invented it. At the very least I was the first guy to write up how to do it and it seemed to be a new achievement in the moto scanning hobby world at the time.
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