[TrunkCom] Michigan State Police To Upgrade MPSCS TRS

[Wayne M H]

That's database related and on the controller side.

It's like going from an older SmartNet system to SmartZone. Same
enhancement. It's not strictly APCO-25.

-Wayne



On Sat, 14 Sep 2002 12:19:14 -0400 (EDT), JEFFREY MICHAEL KENYON
<at649@tcnet.org> wrote:

>There will be more talk group capabilities.  You know how most Motorola
>type II trunked systems will do 4096, well some how this will be =
upgraded
>to handle more as more agencies are becoming interested in joining the
>system.  This was mentioned in an earlier post here.
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>On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Wayne M H wrote:
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>> What added talkgroup capabilities? How they're announced shouldn't
>> have changed if that's what you're asking. A part of the APCO-25
>> trunking standard is a group of OSWs that are public information and I
>> believe can't be changed by the system manufacturer. Motorola can
>> develop their own OSWs, which they identify in the manufacturer
>> portion of the OSW, but are there mainly for their own network
>> support. System and network ids, along with group call announcements
>> should be decoded no matter what version a system upgrades to. These
>> things don't change, that's why they call it a standard.
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>> The system before was 9600 and still is 9600. If the system will be
>> completely APCO-25 and using the trunking standard, it will use the
>> 9600 baud rate. Btw, 4800 baud is EDACS narrowband only. Moto is 3600.
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>> Stop worrying! Just wait for the scanner to ship and worry about it
>> then. It's already been tested and performed well.
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>> -Wayne
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>> On Sat, 14 Sep 2002 00:01:04 -0400 (EDT), JEFFREY MICHAEL KENYON
>> <at649@tcnet.org> wrote:
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>> >Well, what about the added talk group capabilities?  How will the new
>> >scanners handle those.  I don't think that we will have an encrypted
>> >control channel, but it will be 9.6 K instead of the 4.8 K that we =
are all
>> >use to.
>> >	I'm not so concerned about the 9600 BAUD control channel as I am
>> >with the Grosse Pointe TRS, which I have been dying to monitor for =
almost
>> >a year now.  I guess that the new Detroit TRS as well as the Down =
River
>> >Muaual Aide system have or will have the 9600 BAUD control channels =
which
>> >the new scanners will be able to handle.