Just recently I was working on a brand new HT1250. It had a new feature in the settings called MDC message and MDC Status. Anyone know anything about these 2 functions?
Adam
MDC1200 New Feature?
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They have been around for awhile.
What they will do is send an alert to an equiped console your 4 digit radio id and Mx or Sx (x being the message or status number). You can alias the messages or status on the radio, but it will only come up on the dispatcher display as M1 3451 (Message 1, id 3451), unless the newer gold and elite consoles (lan based) can do it.
What they will do is send an alert to an equiped console your 4 digit radio id and Mx or Sx (x being the message or status number). You can alias the messages or status on the radio, but it will only come up on the dispatcher display as M1 3451 (Message 1, id 3451), unless the newer gold and elite consoles (lan based) can do it.
Pj is right - MDC status & message have been around for as long as MDC1200 and were also part of MDC600 20 years ago. Different fixed end devices do different thing with status/message. I think Pj is right that Series II+ consoles didn't even alias them but it looks like the ADM for Elite will allow you to enter aliases for them.
At one time there was a Motorola product called Dispatch Control Unit which was designed to use status & message. You set up a screen with a name for each. Status one might be - 'at quarters', status 2 - 'en route', status 3 - 'arriving at incident', etc. You could create columns for each status and then you could see mobile units move from column to column as their status changed.
This discussion only proves that Motorola has done a poor job of promoting MDC. Different radio products do different MDC features and not always the same way. The lower tier units seem to be adding more MDC features recently. For example, on an XTS3000 you can have unit ID display (if you pay for the option) but just the number - it won't alias, whereas you get display with aliasing on the HT1250 for 25% of the price of the XTS.
One MDC feature that IS new is available in the CDM1550. That is RTT - Request To Talk. The idea is that you have to send a request to the dispatcher before your radio can transmit. The fixed end side of this process is an option on the Gold Elite consoles. Don't ask me to explain why you get this feature on a high end public safety dispatch product and a dealer mobile product but not on the high tier mobiles & portables. After all, this is Motorola we are talking about.
At one time there was a Motorola product called Dispatch Control Unit which was designed to use status & message. You set up a screen with a name for each. Status one might be - 'at quarters', status 2 - 'en route', status 3 - 'arriving at incident', etc. You could create columns for each status and then you could see mobile units move from column to column as their status changed.
This discussion only proves that Motorola has done a poor job of promoting MDC. Different radio products do different MDC features and not always the same way. The lower tier units seem to be adding more MDC features recently. For example, on an XTS3000 you can have unit ID display (if you pay for the option) but just the number - it won't alias, whereas you get display with aliasing on the HT1250 for 25% of the price of the XTS.
One MDC feature that IS new is available in the CDM1550. That is RTT - Request To Talk. The idea is that you have to send a request to the dispatcher before your radio can transmit. The fixed end side of this process is an option on the Gold Elite consoles. Don't ask me to explain why you get this feature on a high end public safety dispatch product and a dealer mobile product but not on the high tier mobiles & portables. After all, this is Motorola we are talking about.