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Anyone here dealt with a Raytheon P25CC, and have you ever hooked it up to an MSR2000? Looking to find out how much they're worth, and any first hand opinions on the thing.

http://www.jps.com/index.asp?node=229&sc=p25cc

It's basically a device containing a P25 implementation that operates over the baseband audio lines of an ordinary analog station, to turn an old repeater into a P25 machine on the cheap.


Cheers

very very nice, Wonder what sort of $$ figures they want for it. ?

If you speak with JPS, you will find that the P25CC is, at least at the moment, a cut-to-fit, paint-to-match proposition: you have to ship your station to JPS and they modify it to work with the P25CC. This is not plug and play.

Their press release states US$20k for the first channel dropping to US$16k. It's not cheap if you want just a P25 repeater; it is cheap if you want a network.

Tait or Daniels probably are the best bet for a reasonably priced P25 repeater (US$7k) if that’s all you need (and don’t want to make one yourself).

The JPS technology actually comes from Etherstack in the UK:

http://www.etherstack.com

Etherstack is also working with Aeroflex, Icom and others. They have a great stand alone P25 protocol monitor.

The Raytheon tie up is here:

http://www.etherstack.com/news.php?id=31

Raytheon / JPS press release is here:

http://www.jps.com/index.asp?node=229&sc=p25cc

I met with them at IWCE in Las Vegas last month and can pass on contact details if you're serious.

In Australia you can get the same thing from Auria Wireless:

http://www.auriawireless.com/index2.php

I met up with them at the APCO 2007 show in Surfers, again can pass on contact details.

Cheers, John

thanks for those links john, the new australian firm look interesting. especially their IP approach.

I've dealt with Auria Wireless professionally, so I've got a contact there. I already knew nothing from Raytheon is particularly cheap, so I was sure this wasn't going to be an exception

This is really just a tyre-kicking personal project at the moment.

Thanks