MOTOTRBO AirTracer--What Does It Do?

[dtscho]

Can someone provide a description as to what AirTracer does, other than the short description that Motorola gives? The only pieces of information I can glean from the program is that it captures over-the-air traffic and retrieves and saves internal error logs. I have two specific questions:

1. Are the files that the program generates able to be read by an end user, or do they have to be sent to Motorola for analysis?
2. Can the program determine such parameters as color code, repeater slot, and group number by "listening" to radio traffic?

Thanks,
Dave

[fineshot1]

Can someone provide a description as to what AirTracer does, other than the short description that Motorola gives? The only pieces of information I can glean from the program is that it captures over-the-air traffic and retrieves and saves internal error logs. I have two specific questions:

1. Are the files that the program generates able to be read by an end user, or do they have to be sent to Motorola for analysis?
2. Can the program determine such parameters as color code, repeater slot, and group number by "listening" to radio traffic?

Thanks,
Dave

1. This I do not know.

2. I am told by someone who has used the TRBO CPS that this is what Airtracer does. I myself have no experience with it.

[tvsjr]

AirTracer came from the TETRA world... from my understanding, it is roughly a combination of Trunker and Treport for TRBO. It lets you see the raw protocol-level things going on...

[videonerd]

Bump for question #2 from the OP... because I'm interested as well!

[MOEtorola]

Me 2

[Pump3]

Airtracer is a very useful program
You will notice the data is outputted in MS Jet Database format, but is passworded if tried to open with MS Access or similiar, but that doesnt matter, forget the password and just open the Airtracer .dblog file by right clicking and opening with wordpad or your favorite hex editor
Your looking for strings like this:

001800000B2000000000000000002710000063000000000000000000210103000000

02710 Group ID in Hex, 10000 in this example
000063 Radio ID in Hex, 99 in this example
2 Color Code, Color Code 2 in this example
I cant seem to find where the Time Slot is recorded however

Example with ARS enabled:
001800000B2000000000000000002710000063009DDF0007F020020041013500FFFF
Example with IPSC enabled:
001800000B2000000000000000002710000063000000000000000000810109000000
Example with Basic Privacy Key 255 enabled:
001800000B2000000000001040002710000063004CAF5EDF899D0400110156000000

[bw18]

Hi Pump3,

Can you explain how you calculate the Hex combination?

i.e. How do you work out 02710 = 10000? 000063 = 99?

I am sure this is a very basic calculation. however my knowledge of Hex is not amazing.

Many thanks in advance from accross the pond!

[bw18]

I have found a Hex calc (thanks to Google)... So now I understand how you make the calculation!

I have had a look at the Airtracer file in Wordpad and have many strings of digits and letters. How exactly do you determine which string holds this information? I did a search for 001800000B2 and had several hits, however none of this looked like the string you have used as an example.

All of the strings I can find starting with the above look something like this:

001800000B20000000000A0184A546A150246A805105200001C8F000F1003500F000f

Any help/instructions would be most welcome