CPS trunking crash course

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Motoman
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CPS trunking crash course

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Would someone be able to give me a crash course in how to setup trunking personalities in CPS for an XTS3000.
I've loaded the "System Key".
I know the control frequncies, and talkgroup IDs. But i don't know where to input them. Nothing in the CPS says "Control Channels" everything is vague. The closest i found to control frequncies was the Channel Assignment which gave you step Khz then TX min and TX Max and then the same for RX. But will only allow ranges of around 5mhz in step and won't allow same specfic frequncies. Any help would be much apperciated.
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Re: CPS trunking crash course

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Motoman wrote:I know the control frequncies, and talkgroup IDs. But i don't know where to input them. Nothing in the CPS says "Control Channels" everything is vague.

Whats the flashcode in your radio? If it's flashed for trunking, you should have a tab in the trunking personality field for control channels.... The CPS is pretty straight foward with trunking, if it's flashed for it...


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If your radio has old firmware, programming it with the latest CPS will not add any new features unless you have the latest firmware to match..

CPS = Customer Programming Software, Not CPS Software.
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Re: CPS trunking crash course

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and you are gonna need to know what type of system it is and make shure your radio can do that system
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Re: CPS trunking crash course

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Yes my radio is flashed for Smartzone and Smartzone omni-link, the trunking network i want to program is SmartZone. It's for a type 2 system. I open the CPS and in the trunking systems there's nothing that specifically says "Control Frequncies". It's give me a thing called "Channel Assigment" And it gives me 3 lists for both RX and TX seprate and allows me to choose Khz spacing and start and end frequncies. I'm also given an option under another tab to do full band control channel scanning. Cheers
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Re: CPS trunking crash course

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Motoman wrote:Nothing in the CPS says "Control Channels" everything is vague.

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Stupidity creates job security!

If your radio has old firmware, programming it with the latest CPS will not add any new features unless you have the latest firmware to match..

CPS = Customer Programming Software, Not CPS Software.
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Re: CPS trunking crash course

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Thanks for everyone who responded I had a mate last night who's clued up in this area show me what i needed to do. The "OBT Control Channels" i totally looked over after going to the help menu and it said it was something to do with failsoft if the system goes down. THanks heaps
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