[FADCA] MSR-2000 as packet radio?

[Chuck Hast]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 21:55:57 -0400, Bill Sinbine <n4xeo at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> At 09:34 PM 10/22/2004, you wrote:
> 
> 
> >On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:23:31 -0400, Bill Sinbine <n4xeo at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > > Has anyone used or looked into using the Motorola MSR-2000 as a packet
> > > radio? I know that it is over kill but I have a chance to get a few to use
> > > at the Fort Pierce EOC when the switch gets moved over there. We know that
> > > we are going to need a strong link to get to WPB from here and it would be
> > > nice if we were able to use the MSR plugged into the combiner there. This
> > > would give us a RX at 500 feet and a TX over 400 foot. This should make the
> > > trip down that way with being able to pump it up to 100 watts and not worry
> > > about heat. We would need to leave it split as far as the RX and TX go and
> > > just hook the tnc up to it and have it work as a normal radio. I have found
> > > plenty of links to convert it to a ham repeater but I haven't found
> > > anything that would help in using it for packet.
> > >
> > > bud, You don't know how GREAT your talk went over down here. Greg went in
> > > to work on Thursday and told the "bosses" about what we can do and they are
> > > ALL for it. This is how getting the MSR-2000's came about.
> > >
> > > Can you picture a FPAC switch with ALL MSR-2000 repeaters acting as packet
> > > radios????!!!!  This is what I'm kind of looking at right now.
> > >
> > > I really need to know what needs to be done ASAP so I can get it to them as
> > > these are going to come available soon and I want to jump right into it
> > > when we can!!!
> > >
> > > Enough for now!
> > >
> >Bill, the MSR-2000 was the flagship base/rptr box for RD-Lap until the
> >MSF-5000
> >came along. RD-Lap does 19k2 over the air using 4LFSK so the actual signaling
> >rate is 9k6 over the air. It should make a very good data box. What spectrum
> >are they on? They would make very good combined voice/data repeaters.
> 
> They are in the 450 area. I don't know what the model is yet so I don't
> know what the range is. What I need right now is info on using them just as
> a plane radio and another as a plane radio using split antennas for RX and TX.
> 
Well I thought I had a MSR-2000 service manual but I do not. It is a MSF-5000
service manual, along with a RNC-3000 multi-site controller manual and a small
manual on the VRM-600 subscriber unit. (the VRM  is just a spectra with no
user interface as it is totally under control of the RNC-3000 and the
base station
controllers)

I will look in some other places, I was thinking I had a MSR-2K book somewhere.


-- 
Chuck Hast 
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."