Non keypad/A4/A5 unit to unit calling question

Post by Pj » Sun Feb 22, 2004 9:04 pm

If you have a II model portable, or a W4/W5 control head, how can one call another unit not on the prestored call list (MDC and trunking)?

A local ASTRO Smartzone system seems to work this way. Mobiles are W4 and portables are XTS3000 Mod 2's. I have only had W7/W9 mobiles and III model radios. I can't think how at the moment..

Any quick hints?

RKG · Post by **RKG** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 1:45 pm

I must be missing the question, because I would have thought the answer was simple: you can't. We use "Call Alert" on a couple of systems, and the non-keypad radios limit the choice to "List Only."

Post by Pj » Mon Feb 23, 2004 4:53 pm

That's what I thought. Apparently with ConnSP's new radio system, scanner users on a list are reporting that private calls are on the rise, but 99% of the radio's on the system are W4's and XTS Mod 2's.

My guess is troop to car kind of thing, but I don't have a scanner, so I don't know for sure.

Is there a way for network center to place two units in EPC, but not by dynamically regrouping them?

RKG · Post by **RKG** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 9:28 am

My guess would be that those calls are going either to the barracks desk or the shift commander. I am not aware of a console command that would link two (or more) explicit units for what amounts to a new group channel request absent DYN. But then, I don't know anything about what CTSP is using.