[TrunkCom] Rebanding has begun on Motorola trunked systems

[Jeff Kenyon]

Is there an antenna that can do this that is portable and inexpensive?





On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, David McCormick wrote:

> CQPSK has been improved with the newest 1.2 DSP firmware on the
> PSR-500/600, however the best way to monitor the CQPSK system type, with
> any capable trunking scanner is to point a beam antenna at one tower to
> prevent multi-path reception from neighboring simulcast towers.
>
> Jeff Kenyon wrote:
> > Well, like I said it was a while ago when i heard they'd have a firmware
> > upgrade for this.  Also, throw in better CQPSK reception to that as well.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, David I. Emery wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 09:18:15PM -0400, David McCormick wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Jeff,
> >>>
> >>> No, there have not been any firmware updates for rebanding to date for
> >>> the PRO-96/2096 and only the DSP can be firmware flashed. If a CPU
> >>> firmware was required, a trip to the service center would need to be
> >>> made for a logic and display board replacement. That is, if Radio Shack
> >>> would support such an upgrade. This is the reason that the custom
> >>> frequency tables were added to the original firmware.
> >>>
> >> 	I'd bet you a significant amount the actual main cpu CAN be
> >> flashed, but for FCC cell modification NPRM compliance the procedure to
> >> do this and any security codes required aren't public...  thus RS (if
> >> they still are alive as a business at that point) no doubt has in house
> >> software to do this if required in the future ... and maybe some kind of
> >> special cable or connector to gain the required access.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
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