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How do U remotely shut down a ProRadio??
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 9:01 pm
by Paramedic606
Our entire FD is going to HT750 & HT1250s and I have aliased every radio in the fleet with MDC1200. If we lose a radio or it gets stolen, I have heard that there is a way to remotely disable them...can someone offer me some input on this?
Many thanks,
- Paul
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 9:18 pm
by RocketNJ
The radio would need to support MDC radio inhibit. I do not know if the 750/1250 series supports that.
If the radio does support MDC 1200 radio inhibit then you would need either a MDC1200 Stat Alert console or a Centracom II console with MDC signalling BIM to be able to send the inhibit command.
The radio would need to be on, listening to the channel where the inhibit command is sent out, and in range in order to be inhibited.
George
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 10:28 pm
by E911EMT
Is there away to do it from protable to portable..
A lot of Pagers and Radios can be shut down
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 6:51 am
by Susan157
We have seen a number of motorola pagers
and a couple of portables that you can shut down.
With the kenwood radios it is called DeadBeat.
When you proram up DeadBeat then you can turn off or on the
radio.
We had to do that for a company that had
12 portables.They turned them off (one 8 hr shift only)
at the end of the shift and back on in the morning.
It was told that no more radios were lost after that.
They replaced a number of them in the past.
I guess a lot of Hunters . Hi Hi
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 7:34 am
by Chris
The Pro Radio series is indeed capable of receiving and acknowledging a MDC radio inhibit command from the console. Radio inhibit encode is purposely left out of the feature set of subscriber units to prevent malicious interferece on radio systems. It is a potentially dangerous MDC command to use and should only be used in cases of known malicious interference or known lost/stolen radios.
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 1:56 pm
by RocketNJ
Chris, I read a 1550XLS and did not see any Selective Radio Inhibit fields in the MDC menus. This is using the latest CPS software for the 1550XLS.
George
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 2:10 pm
by Chris
It isn't a selectable option per se. It is standard when MDC is enabled on a personality and you enable the radio to decode MDC alerts...
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2003 3:35 pm
by RocketNJ
ok, thanks Chris. This works differently than Astro radios or MTs2000's. Those radios have an option to enable or disable Selective Radio Inhibit.
George