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G5 QCII decoding on *CONVENTIONAL* P25

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I did the firmware, and PPS upgrade today. The system in question is an 800 MHz P25 conventional system, NOT trunked. This system does not use TGIDs, or the like. This system fires their QCII tones across the 800 system, as well as VHF.

I tried to set up this G5 to decode QCII on this system with no luck, because each paging setting is looking for a TGID. And you can't use the default "FFFF" for different tones on different group call IDs because you can't use the same FFFF on all of the different groups. Meaning you can't stack more than one set of 2 tones in one "channel".

Maybe I am not using the correct terminology. Hopefully someone can pick up on what I mean.
 

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Understood. The problem is where you put the tones, it is looking for a TGID. If I were to enter "1", it won't let me put multiple tones in the same "channel".
 

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Understood. The problem is where you put the tones, it is looking for a TGID. If I were to enter "1", it won't let me put multiple tones in the same "channel".

If I understand your comment correctly, I think I did the same thing at first and the PPS complained.... then I watched David's video very closely and found what I was doing incorrectly.

The tones are not assigned to the same group row as the TGID.

As David said to me - watch the video - it's a bit more involved than creating a TGID (group) and assigning it tone pairs.

On the other hand - I don't know if the PPS is prepared to handle QC configurations for conventional - I haven't looked.
 
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QCII over P25 Conventional is not supported at this time. We will try to have it in the next release in the next few months.
 
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