XTS3500 in H38 smartzone trunk?

rogerradios · Post by **rogerradios** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 10:03 pm

Does anyone know if the XTS3500 works in smartnet or smartzone trunking with the correct flash installed?

The XTS3500 I have seen are the ones with H35 conventional flashcode only xxxxx1-xxxxxx-x. Does the XTS3500 comes in H38 smartzone option xxxxxx8-xxxxxx-x and can the host/dsp supports that?

Any help would be appreciated. Please PM me. Thanks.

Fuel4300 · Post by **Fuel4300** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 2:40 am

I have been wondering about this too. I has always heard that they were strickly conventional but I have seen them on ebay with H38. Perhaps those radios were whore flashed but I didnt think that was possible with the XTS3500 either.

Mike

Post by **alex** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 9:00 am

As far as I know they were made and sold as conventional only.

someone was able to figure out how to turn on the feature for trunking. I don't know if it worked or not, I only had a VHF one, and used it for conventional only.

-Alex

RocketNJ · Post by **RocketNJ** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 9:20 am

Trunking is not officially supported on the 3500.

I've seen one with a whored out code and it had a problem where it would randomly reboot when in scan. Another legit 3500 worked flawlessly.

George

MikeOxlong · Post by **MikeOxlong** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 4:26 pm

I've got a 3500 with the H38 option and it works fine. No mysterious reboots or other strange activity.

Fuel4300 · Post by **Fuel4300** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 6:50 pm

MikeOxlong wrote:I've got a 3500 with the H38 option and it works fine. No mysterious reboots or other strange activity.

Does it have H38 from the factory or is it a hack job?

Mike

MikeOxlong · Post by **MikeOxlong** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 4:25 am

Good question.

Since they don't seem to offer it at the factory I can only assume it was a hack job.

However, since the xts3500 is supposedly unhackable, I can only assume it came from somebody at Motorola.

Fuel4300 · Post by **Fuel4300** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 10:00 am

MikeOxlong wrote:Good question.

Since they don't seem to offer it at the factory I can only assume it was a hack job.

However, since the xts3500 is supposedly unhackable, I can only assume it came from somebody at Motorola.

Then I am guessing it does not have matching tags, or any tags at all? Is it possible its an xts3000 in an xts3500 case?

Mike

allplowedout · Post by **allplowedout** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 8:40 pm

The FDNY uses such a radio with some interesting options in their programming, fireground communications option, etc...

Digital ID tx'd on keyup followed by analog modulation for voice transmissions. Quite fascinating if you've neer seen it, or know about the "fireground communications option"

ExKa|iBuR · Post by **ExKa|iBuR** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 7:13 am

allplowedout wrote: Digital ID tx'd on keyup followed by analog modulation for voice transmissions. Quite fascinating if you've neer seen it, or know about the "fireground communications option"

Sorry to ask the obvious, but wouldn't that just be MDC? MDC is digital, with analog voice.

-M

MikeOxlong · Post by **MikeOxlong** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 2:00 pm

Fuel4300 wrote: Is it possible its an xts3000 in an xts3500 case?

Mike

Not likely as I use xts3500 RSS to program it.

RocketNJ · Post by **RocketNJ** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 6:33 pm

ExKa|iBuR wrote:
allplowedout wrote: Digital ID tx'd on keyup followed by analog modulation for voice transmissions. Quite fascinating if you've neer seen it, or know about the "fireground communications option"
Sorry to ask the obvious, but wouldn't that just be MDC? MDC is digital, with analog voice.

-M

No, MDC is analog signalling. The fireground signalling is a much shorter burst of digital signal, sounds almost like white noise. Much shorter than MDC.

You can contact your local Moto rep and request a demo of the fireground system, it's pretty neat.

George

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