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Community Repeater + Digital

Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 1:29 pm
by Pump3
Wondering if anyone has attempted or has working a set up like I want to do

I have a community repeater, but eventually want to move everything to trbo digital

I want to have a Community Repeater Panel, likely a CSI TP-154 Plus, interfaced to the trbo repeater, in Dynamic Mixed Mode, and have the repeater respond to analog calls through the tone panel, or to digital calls through the internal controller

Can it be done?

Re: Community Repeater + Digital

Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 3:08 pm
by amutis
One of ours repeaters have a simlilar configuration
Motorola DGR6175 (xpr8300) with a zetron m37max tone panel.

The repeater is programmed in dinamic mixed mode, when a call is analog the tone panel decode the tone and repeat, if the call is digital de repeater repeat in digital.



Work great, we have a wo works in digital with subscribers with gps, the use the trbonet software, and clients workimg in analog.

Re: Community Repeater + Digital

Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 3:27 pm
by KitN1MCC
i am building a new from Scratch one all Digital it can all be done internally but it mixed mode i do not think it will work. go 100% digital

Re: Community Repeater + Digital

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 7:44 am
by boteman
Are you trying to link each PL code to a particular TRBO talkgroup/channel? That would allow you to migrate users over gradually instead of a forklift upgrade.

Re: Community Repeater + Digital

Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 4:40 am
by Pump3
No, I basically want a two-in-one community repeater, the repeater running in Mixed Mode, multiple PL's or DPL's for analog radio users via a external tone controller, and multiple talkgroups for digital users using the internal controller....

Some users want digital and the advanced features, some dont care/don't have the money at this point

This will be with a Vertex VXD-R70 but as far as I can tell so far there is no real different between that and the XPR8400

Re: Community Repeater + Digital

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:20 am
by RADIOMAN2002
I don't know if it was just us, but I was never able to successfully intergrate a community panel on one of our test XPR 8400 repeaters. One of the reasons we dumped them. Using PL was OK, but it couldn't handle DPL or LTR coding. Anyone else able to, and care to share pinouts?

Re: Community Repeater + Digital

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 11:42 am
by Pump3
Check out the Mototrbo System Planner, it says how to hook up tone panels and LTR controllers, I think you have to combine both the controllers audio outputs, audio out and disc out, into one wire @ the proper level, since the repeater only has the one audio input, and you have to configure some audio settings in CPS

Re: Community Repeater + Digital

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 9:08 am
by RADIOMAN2002
Did that. work for PL only, no good for DPL or LTR, appears that low frequency is filtered out.

Re: Community Repeater + Digital

Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 2:00 pm
by JRayfield
I've successfully used an XPR8300 repeater on LTR.

John Rayfield, Jr. CETma
RADIOMAN2002 wrote:I don't know if it was just us, but I was never able to successfully intergrate a community panel on one of our test XPR 8400 repeaters. One of the reasons we dumped them. Using PL was OK, but it couldn't handle DPL or LTR coding. Anyone else able to, and care to share pinouts?