xts3000 programming question

dave7101 · Post by **dave7101** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 10:13 am

newbie question, so bear with me

can an xtx3000 vhf m2 be programmed to monitor an apco 25 mixed system (digital voice, conventional voice, no encryption for either) without the system key?

thanks in advance

10-95 · Post by **10-95** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 10:20 am

dave7101 wrote:newbie question, so bear with me

can an xtx3000 vhf m2 be programmed to monitor an apco 25 mixed system (digital voice, conventional voice, no encryption for either) without the system key?

thanks in advance

Short answer, NO.

Frank

Post by **batdude** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 10:28 am

frank, unless i missed something here....

the answer is yes, of course it can...conventional digital or analog programming does not require the system key

doug

10-95 · Post by **10-95** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 10:43 am

I guess I misunderstood, I thought he wanted to monitor a "Trunked System".

Frank

dave7101 · Post by **dave7101** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 10:53 am

as followup, i did mean a trunked system.. its apco25 digital voice and conventional mixed, but its a very big (geographicaly) trunked system that im talking about.

if i dont have the system key, and its a trunked system is there any way to monitor via xts3000? i've read something about creating a system key (any system key) and using that?

(newbie stuff... go easy on me)

10-95 · Post by **10-95** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 10:38 am

dave7101 wrote:as followup, i did mean a trunked system.. its apco25 digital voice and conventional mixed, but its a very big (geographicaly) trunked system that im talking about.

if i dont have the system key, and its a trunked system is there any way to monitor via xts3000? i've read something about creating a system key (any system key) and using that?

(newbie stuff... go easy on me)

yes, if you get the proper sys key and program the radio properly you can monitor the trunked system.

Frank

Post by Pj » Sat Jul 03, 2004 12:42 pm

I think there is a thread/sticky on the top that explains it but...

If you are using the radio for other work, then you have a good investment. If you bought the radio to ONLY monitor the system, then I would sell it on ebay and buy a new digital trunking scanner.

Reason being that its a pain to program TRS in the radio, and there are too many ways to accidently transmit on the TRS or to accidently do bad things on the TRS.

Other than that, you can only scan a max of 10 trunked channels at a time which blows.