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

Wed, 16 Oct 2002 05:40:40 -0700 (PDT)

That is pretty much what happened with The Southwest
Regional Communications System
There are quite a few suburbs on this system.  
Strongsville Ohio is one of them.  All P.D. &
F.D./Squads havve Moto Radios but the Service
Department is E.D.A.C.S. so there is a Talk Group link
between the two.
--- Brian J Cathcart <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:58:19 -0400 (EDT) JEFFREY
> MICHAEL KENYON
> <[email protected]> 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 the way is outdated by a long shot he mentioned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.
> 
> --
> 
> The Scanner Dude
> Brian J. Cathcart - KE4PMJ
> South Florida Frequency & Trunking Guide - 6th
> Edition (On CD-ROM too!)
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