Post by scannerman5555 on Jun 22, 2005 21:38:32 GMT -5
Pro 96 and Rebanding
Guess RS and GRE are trying to make right with these new radios. Here is what I
recieved off another list about the rebanding plan.
The PRO97 has been out for several months now, as has its mobile cousin, the
PRO2055. However, there seems to be some confusion as to whether rebanding will
affect these scanners. It seems that the tables necessary to be fixed do not
work on 800 with these scanners; only on UHF and VHF trunking. However, don't
consider that the last word.... There are a few forums on Yahoo, here on Strong
Signals and on RadioReference (in the Radio Shack forum) concerning these
scanners.
Anyway, here's something that came up on the RadioReference Delaware board, and
DoctorDave was good enough to repost it on the rebanding forums there. It
concerns the PRO96/2096 and the rebanding effort, and is supposedly an email
response from GRE:
=================
We are nearly certain that the PRO-96 will be compatible with both
legacy and rebanded Motorola systems. As you know, the PRO-96 includes a "custom
table" range configuration that allows up to six table
configurations to be defined for both Motorola and P25 trunked radio
systems. A custom table range configuration consists of a base frequency
(i.e., "Base = Channel 1"), a step size for the range (i.e., "Channel N
= Base + N * Step") and an offset value (i.e., "Offset the channel
number by this value").
In the current Motorola channel plan for the 800 MHz band, there are
four or five range definitions that allow Motorola radios to access
every frequency in the 800 MHz band. We know what these ranges are, and have
hard coded them into the PRO-96 and PRO-2096, so the radios behave exactly like
Motorola radios when trunking the 800 MHz band.
In testing the six custom ranges, we were able to successfully
trunktrack the 800 MHz Motorola systems by turning the custom range
feature on and hand programming the 4 or 5 ranges that Motorola uses to
define the 800 MHz band.
So...
Once the new Motorola bandplan for the reconfigured 800 MHz band is
known, it should be a very simple matter indeed to come up with the
correct base, step and offset values to make the PRO-96 and PRO-2096
track the 800 MHz band correctly on systems that have been rebanded.
With the exception of the actual channel tables themselves. We are aware
of what Motorola plans to do with the their 800 MHz channel mapping, and
are very confident that the PRO-96 and the PRO-2096 will be able handle
800 MHz rebanding just fine.
source: strongsignals.net
That's one nightmare off my chest wewhhh. I hope. They say there is supposed
to be a firmware upgrade as soon as the band is straightened out. Let's hope
so.
Guess RS and GRE are trying to make right with these new radios. Here is what I
recieved off another list about the rebanding plan.
The PRO97 has been out for several months now, as has its mobile cousin, the
PRO2055. However, there seems to be some confusion as to whether rebanding will
affect these scanners. It seems that the tables necessary to be fixed do not
work on 800 with these scanners; only on UHF and VHF trunking. However, don't
consider that the last word.... There are a few forums on Yahoo, here on Strong
Signals and on RadioReference (in the Radio Shack forum) concerning these
scanners.
Anyway, here's something that came up on the RadioReference Delaware board, and
DoctorDave was good enough to repost it on the rebanding forums there. It
concerns the PRO96/2096 and the rebanding effort, and is supposedly an email
response from GRE:
=================
We are nearly certain that the PRO-96 will be compatible with both
legacy and rebanded Motorola systems. As you know, the PRO-96 includes a "custom
table" range configuration that allows up to six table
configurations to be defined for both Motorola and P25 trunked radio
systems. A custom table range configuration consists of a base frequency
(i.e., "Base = Channel 1"), a step size for the range (i.e., "Channel N
= Base + N * Step") and an offset value (i.e., "Offset the channel
number by this value").
In the current Motorola channel plan for the 800 MHz band, there are
four or five range definitions that allow Motorola radios to access
every frequency in the 800 MHz band. We know what these ranges are, and have
hard coded them into the PRO-96 and PRO-2096, so the radios behave exactly like
Motorola radios when trunking the 800 MHz band.
In testing the six custom ranges, we were able to successfully
trunktrack the 800 MHz Motorola systems by turning the custom range
feature on and hand programming the 4 or 5 ranges that Motorola uses to
define the 800 MHz band.
So...
Once the new Motorola bandplan for the reconfigured 800 MHz band is
known, it should be a very simple matter indeed to come up with the
correct base, step and offset values to make the PRO-96 and PRO-2096
track the 800 MHz band correctly on systems that have been rebanded.
With the exception of the actual channel tables themselves. We are aware
of what Motorola plans to do with the their 800 MHz channel mapping, and
are very confident that the PRO-96 and the PRO-2096 will be able handle
800 MHz rebanding just fine.
source: strongsignals.net
That's one nightmare off my chest wewhhh. I hope. They say there is supposed
to be a firmware upgrade as soon as the band is straightened out. Let's hope
so.