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XTS3500 in H38 smartzone trunk?
Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 10:03 pm
by rogerradios
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.
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 2:40 am
by Fuel4300
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
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 9:00 am
by alex
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
Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 9:20 am
by RocketNJ
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
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 4:26 pm
by MikeOxlong
I've got a 3500 with the H38 option and it works fine. No mysterious reboots or other strange activity.
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 6:50 pm
by Fuel4300
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
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 4:25 am
by MikeOxlong
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.
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 10:00 am
by Fuel4300
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
3500
Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 8:40 pm
by allplowedout
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"
Re: 3500
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 7:13 am
by ExKa|iBuR
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
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 2:00 pm
by MikeOxlong
Fuel4300 wrote: Is it possible its an xts3000 in an xts3500 case?
Mike
Not likely as I use xts3500 RSS to program it.
Re: 3500
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 6:33 pm
by RocketNJ
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