[TrunkCom] Re: Motorola radios with the capabilities

[Earl Barfield]

> 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.

I have a faint memory of reading somewhere that Motorola once made a
modified verison of a Saber(?) for a US military contract that had
software (firmware?) with EDACS capability.  It was a one-off project
that they needed to do in order to satisfy the contract but had no
desire to develop into a commercial offering.

I can't find the reference now.  Anyone else see this?


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