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

Wed, 16 Oct 2002 18:16:17 -0400 (EDT)

Okay, that is that I thought.  Does anyone know what happened to Wrren
Whitby?  His page is still up, but like I said it hasn't been active, and
he hasn't posted on here in a long time.

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Brian J Cathcart 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 the way is outdated by a long shot he mentioned that one of the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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