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Dsheli and ads47 This is good information to know for those out there who are using the defective equipment everyday. I certainly thank you for it and will pass it along to folks struggling with the same issue and considering PAYING for this "noise reduction" which should never be a proble...

Hi MTS2000 DES, Whether iDEN or PCS ALL of them are still a radio because they are wireless. This fact has nothing to do with FCC Part XXXX legislation. Anything that falls under FCC Part XX is a radio. It has to do with TX'ing and RX'ing on a frequency or frequencies. All radios either transmit, re...

Hello all consumers, and end users, and those new to communications, The subject of this post is most comical to me (and I am sure others in the know) and displays the non-scientific/non-technical nature that this board has become and come to attract. NEWS FLASH: Anything wireless is a radio. A radi...

Folks, Got a guy trying to interface to the MTR2000 UHF and on the 96 pin connector it would seem the mic audio pin is stripped of PL when audio is fed into it (brilliant). So I told him to go into the service microphone port on the front. No dice. Got PTT, RX audio, no TX audio. Bought a NEW PALM M...

P25 is a long dead mode. P54 is the DOJ/APCO's latest way of playing catch-up. Those who play politics and are afraid of what people think because they want to keep their job and not take heat for purchasing decisions will think P25 is great. Those who are savvy with tech will reject it for the half...

Chances are if you have a GOOD radio repeater station, and then you add any controller you know works an dis GOOD to thousands of others, and it does not, it is usually the wiring or setup. I deal with a fair share of people everyday too who call in when the answer to their problem is right there in...

Folks, Pure vapor! Gotta love it. However if you are using Virtual Base Station you can decode full MDC by using WINMDC (free download) to do this via IP. Maybe now you will not just trust a name anymore. Good luck with the promise made to your cusotmer. Sure there is a tech support in India to help...

Wow...hope it was not to solve the problems they are talking about here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcBKAxnS2FY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HijUTGJsCkc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqrpAZhk2NI Certianly P25 wont help. Or maybe it is what the "salesmanship" of the weasels sold (P25...

Folks, The RAD unit works. Ive used it for voting applications as well as V.24 and V.35 to PCM/T1 sctructured and then to DSL and CBl modems. I actually have been OEM'ing them and providing support to radio folks who are IT/circuit learners, helping them evenly adjust comparitor delay varible adjust...

Hi,

Didn't know anything had to be "approved". Heck its just audio, PTT and GND.

I like the CAT-200. Pretty sure it didnt make the list.

Steve

Folks,

This should be pretty straightforward. Just run everything in parallel out of SVR to the appropriate pin #'s on the associated radios.

Where are you located?

Steve

Hi, The units we used were not form Inmarsat. They were from tracstar. http://www.tracstar.net/ All I can say is that they had the same QoS as a managed circuit from the bell and really worked great and were not all that expensive. Latency was not calculated round trip but was totally transparent. S...

"Sorry to disagree but I’m with WA6JBD on this. It is hard to beat a properly engineered and licensed microwave link." Microwave has performed but not in earthquakes, hurricanes, tornado, etc. Yes microwave can hold too but not as well. Latency is very low. Right now many public safety and...

Hello??!? Earth to the telecom folks (thats what you are right if you really get down to the heart of it? Motorola is plain old telecom gear even if you have a fetish for it, same rules apply so you should think like a telecom person and not just a 2-way person!) You can use BGAN which is like micro...

"At least until you have a natural disaster and all the data networks take a dump. Even Wifi. Your Iphone gonna run simplex?" Just plug in a Wifi Base Station on site into your car battery or any power and Woila! Encryption? Already built in. Simplex? Just set up/pre program by alpha name ...

I started Critical RF.

You are correct sir.

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My friend, I said a RUGGED iPhone and these things are on their way to everybody whether you like it or not - firefighter, librarian, or code officer. Femtocells and Picocells will be in every crusier and fire truck trunk just like the old PAC-RT/Vehicular repeaters of our fathers generation. BTW Gl...

Hello.

Use the Internet or a LAN or WAN and you wont need expensive microwave or towers or any of that cold war stuff.

Google "PackeTUBE" to learn more about the future.

Steve

Critical RF builds this. It is a private IRLP system with soft radio clients for Windows, Macintosh, Windows Mobile, and iPhone.

www.criticalrf.com

SiteCAST is the inexpensive box and comes with all the software included.

Steve

Wow...I don't know what to say. Very unoriginal and big waste of money to make and more of a waste to purchase since soon all cities will have wireless broadband with Voice PTT as one of a gazillion packet-switched services of the wireless broadband network. Your radio will be a program you launch a...

10-4. I have been using it quite regularly and it works ok. Maybe I adpted my wiring or something.

Steve

Guys,

The pinout is ON BATLABS MODEL SPECIFIC INFORMATION under "iDEN"

Steve

I see what you are saying. to me iPhone is just another handheld computer with embedded wifi adn EDGE radios - just executed and built better. No different than the previous windows mobile/ CE versions. Apple is actually using this SiteCAST/iWalkie system on site with MotoTRBO and iDEN and Macs, etc...

FYI - just as you speak of, SiteCAST uses the "headphone jack" 2.5mm TRS plug. Simply use any old in line earbud w/ ptt to make the cable. Can fax pinout with wiring diagram. Works very will with Direct connect 1 touch setting. I Have a nextel i730 linked to VHF repeater, MotoTRBO repeater...

All,

Critical RF makes a "SiteCAST" box that will let you do this for around $300. It will also let you then talk to Nextel or th LMR system from unlimited numbers of PC's or SmartPhones included.

http://www.criitcalrf.com

Steve

Hi, What usually happens to people with the M1225 is they plug in the cable upside down (since it is inverted on M1225 vs. GM300 and it blows the pico fuse. I can fix them for you for $10 each. Next, you need to look at SiteCAST http://www.criticalrf.com This will plug and play crossband your M1225'...

If you have an MPT1327 truking system and an APCO25 system, radios on both systems can talk to one another seamlessly by connecting a SiteCAST to each system. The systems can be of any distance apart (i.e. anywhere in the world). You can have any number of or mix of systems, anywhere in the world, a...

Guys,

Need an opinion.

I was thinking about landing at IWCE and going to our booth next year with one of these.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gcurwcPs3U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THEcWrznicY

Do you guys think this would be a hit or a miss?

Steve

I hope everybody liked our efforts. Meager yet effective. If you received a SiteCAST box please email or PM me for pin outs.

Thanks,

Steve

If you don't break it.

There will be a mandatory sobriety test required before zipping around ;

Steve

IP is a broad word. Most do not work over the public internet, rather private networks (more expensive than a leased circuit) and use UDP which is designed for consumers/ adopted ot radios rather than designed from the ground up .We have been there the last (3) years. This year we introduce our new ...

Alex, There are lots of different products to talk about when you get there. Everything from being able to link an unlimited amount of simplex, repeater or trunked talkgroups with ordinary PCs (SiteCAST), to backhauling/linking entire systems and all controller sub-signaling for primary or backup (P...

Hello all fellow labbers. I will be in booth #770 this year exhibiting the various aspects of our platform. We will also formally debut our new software based 2 way radios that talk anywhere in the world and back to legacy radios seamlessly. Please stop by and say hello. Everybody who goes and menti...

Folks, Critical RF, Inc. makes a unit for about $600 that will link the (2) together. They also publish the schematics to build your cables yourself if you are on a budget. You will need a computer of 120Mhz or greater and 2Mb of disk space to set it. up I saw the demo at IWCE last year worked well....

Dear MIKE user, The SiteCAST+ from Critical RF, Inc. will do this as well and is much less expensive - plus I hear they even make it in the USA. It will also allow you to talk from your MIKE unit and repeater to PC's and PDA's as a cool twist. The iDEN unit must have a Tip and Ring jack for headsets...

Folks, Looked through the above sticky on /\/\otoTURDO and no answer to be found on my question. Please direct me to it if I am mistaken. I must have spent 15 minutes reading everything in the thread. Anyways, wanted to know if when GPS NEMA coordinates from the GPS SAT was encoded and transported/t...

http://www.criticalrf.com also has a way to do this with their SiteCAST box where you would just hook up the NEXTEL iDEN to a PC and the UHF to the PC. You can build your own cables/pinouts published to save $.

Steve

Folks,

You can always go from v.24 or v.35 to IP using PackeTUBE. Then they can be linked anywhere on the planet using Broadband or private LAN/WAN.

Steve

There is a better and more cost effective/better sounding way to do this. Please PM for a diagram.

Regards,

Steve

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If it was to happen again the communications would be the same. This is because the leaders are getting money and favors from the big radio companies and do whatever they tell them. Nothing has changed except for some crossband repeaters that de-sense each other which everybody knows are a joke. I f...

IP223 and NXU2 work very poorly over anything but a private LAN/WAN. Gaps in audio because of dropped packets, collisions, etc. I know I have bought, tested and trashed (3) of each. They also do not support inherent multicast, meaning you will have to buy a multicast iP address from your packet acce...

I have an inexpensive way to do this which prevents the squelch tails on both repeater systems from "hearing themselves" and Ponging COR to PTT over and over again. I have done it for chiefhal3 on this board with what sounds like the same setup. You will need (2) SiteCAST boxes and (2) plu...

GSM is clean when levels are perfect..Not absolute fidelity but pretty close. Much better than say IMBE ;) Try bringing you output levels up coming into/driving the soundcard line in/mic. Too much background/voice mod level is lower than should be will pronounce clicking artifact. Much same problem ...

Cool, Send it to others too. Email me at CriticalRFatBellsouth.net and I 'll send it to you with the server address, password, and how to set your PTT key for any button.

Steve

Will some of you with Windows Mobile devices please install my Virtual HandHeld/Virtual HT client software? I can email it to you. It will turn your device (Q/Treo/etc.) into a 2 way radio and let you talk to other devices, computers anywhere in the world and I have a SiteCAST interface attached to ...

How much will somebody charge me to have this thing restored? Please advise.

Thanks

Steve

Whoops. Just remembered exactly what this is. Looks like I will have to be the bearer of bad news to thins guy. Looks like that was the toolproof error. Has anybody found a fix for that yet to bring radios back? I remember back in 99' on the boards the MTS was pretty much screwed after that. I wonde...

Hi, Got a buddy with a UHF MTS2000 with a fail 01/93 error. Tried to install crypto module and noticed the error after doing so. Any ideas on this failcode or how to resolve/interpret it? I used to know all the failcodes when I was 17 about 10 years ago now, but since launching into war against Moto...

P25 will not pass DTMF or any signalling / analog data format. Too much warble. IMBE is a very poor codec. It cant reproduce accurately even human voice, let alone signalling where levels need to be more precise. Very crude. It is laughable because so many codecs exist that are free that are better ...

Todd, SiteCAST will allow setup and knockdown of conferences on any band - trunked, conventional, digital or analog from the field via DTMF commands. you can setup/knockdown as many cossband conferences as you want. I think you already have a unit, just add as many as there are different banded syst...

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