Type II Smart Zone

[CanineSAR]

Will the MTX8000 and The MTX800 raidos work with the Motorola Type II Smart Zone? If so how do I get them programed to work and or any mods that need to be done?

Any help greatly needed.

Thanks

[/\/\y 2 cents]

MTX 820s's can be used on a smartzone system...MTX8000 can be programmed into Type II/IIi smartnet, but im not sure about smartzone. All my experience with MTX8000's is dumping codeplugs into em' that my buddy made. Never really got into em too much cause I only really used it as a high end scanner. Ask Elroy he'd probably know whats up with that..Apparently he got out of control skillz....Hey Elroy...step to this fool and tell him what time it is..

[wavetar]

MTX8000's do not support SmartZone trunking, but there are instructions under the Batlabs model specific info section on converting certain models by dumping an MTS2000 archive into the radio with LAB software. Anyone else seen MTX820s support Smartzone, like MY2cents says?? I've never seen one that did.

[Salem The Cat]

On 2001-11-26 07:52, wavetar wrote:
MTX8000's do not support SmartZone trunking, but there are instructions under the Batlabs model specific info section on converting certain models by dumping an MTS2000 archive into the radio with LAB software. Anyone else seen MTX820s support Smartzone, like MY2cents says?? I've never seen one that did.

I think he might mean you can operate an old
legacy Smartnet II product in the local zone
of a particular trunking site. However it's
not functioning has a SmartZone capable unit.
So it will lose system access once it leaves
it's home zone (since the firmware in the
radio would not support SZ specific feature
sets required). For example the need to watch
adjacent control channels, RSSI levels, the
site order of preference, etc. These are all
parameters that the Zone Controller back at
the master/prime site would need to permit
interzone roaming (and is also being sent out
over the control channel, so the subscriber
would need to understand this data - an older
legacy MTX-800 series portable would not).

[/\/\y 2 cents]

ok...i checked into it...my county is using MTX820S series radios on their smartzone system...these are the ones with the Orange AMSS button on the side...they are phasing them out though....gradually switching to lts2000 w/ smartzone option on 800 Mhz. Maybe they do limited smartzone.

[wavetar]

On 2001-11-26 13:05, //y 2 cents wrote:
ok...i checked into it...my county is using MTX820S series radios on their smartzone system...these are the ones with the Orange AMSS button on the side...they are phasing them out though....gradually switching to lts2000 w/ smartzone option on 800 Mhz. Maybe they do limited smartzone.

Yeah, I've set-up a few different models of radios that way. They're not "limited SmartZone", like the GTX is capable of (all 32 control channels), but you can set them to AMSS, and program in up to 8 different site control channels, giving you SmartZone-like operation, over a limited area. Not a bad set-up for base stations, but it will give problems with mobiles & portables, for reasons detailed by Salem earlier.