[TrunkCom] Re: [DIGITAL-SCANNING] Motorola radios with the capabilities of working with EDACS systems?

[Brian J Cathcart]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:58:19 -0400 (EDT) JEFFREY MICHAEL KENYON
<at649@tcnet.org> writes:
> Hi everyone.  I was reading some information on the web about the 
> city of Corpus Christy, Texas and there EDACS system which is a mixed 
> analogue and digital system with digital being used by detectives and
narcotics 
> teams On the page that I saw which was Warren Whitby's homepage which
by 
> the way is outdated by a long shot he mentioned that one of the
military
> installations near there was going to be using a Motorola Astro 
> Saber to be used on the EDACS system.  I was a bit surprised at that
because 
> I had always been under the impression that Motorola won't work on
EDACS 
> and EDACS won't work on Motorola.

Your impression is correct, EDACS and Motorola trunking systems are
incompatible with each other and you cannot make either brand work on the
other brand's system.  The only thing you can do is program an analog
conventional frequency into both, then they can talk to each other.  Or
you can get fancier and put a hardware link between the two trunking
systems and assign a talkgroup on each system to the link.  But other
than that they cannot talk to each other.

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The Scanner Dude
Brian J. Cathcart - KE4PMJ
South Florida Frequency & Trunking Guide - 6th Edition (On CD-ROM too!)