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Merry Christmas

Friday, December 25, 2020

If you're celebrating, have a Merry Christmas! -Wayne

If you've ever installed a Multisite Capacity Plus system, which Router did you use?

Tuesday, December 08, 2020

I am planning a technical workshop that will cover the design and setup of a Multisite Capacity Plus system. Since with this topology, a Ro...

(Really) old skool stuff: QCII

Tuesday, December 01, 2020

Quik-Call II; QCII or Two-Tone was a signalling format developed by Motorola and I think GE in the 1950s for use in pagers. This was before ...

User survey

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

I'm doing another survey. This one is just to show where you are; what you do for a living and to what extent this blog helps you in you...

No more FM batteries!

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

As of 31 December 2020, Motorola Solutions will no longer accept orders for replacement batteries used on FM approved radio. FMRC stopped c...

I want to build a Multisite Capacity Plus system, which router and/or switch should I choose?

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

The short answer is any professional-grade hardware you can get your hands on. The longer answer is as long as the router is able to support...

Some thoughts on migrating customers to and from MOTOTRBO.

Tuesday, November 03, 2020

My customer has 16 channels which are configured like this , how should I set up the digital radios? Exactly the same as the existing ones. ...

Clarification on TX Caller Alias (aka In-band Caller Alias)

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

TX Caller Alias (also known as In-band Caller Alias) is a feature that allows the user to send a text string as part of any voice transmissi...

Setting up Dynamic Mixed Mode and Extended Range Direct Mode in a repeater

Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Dynamic Mixed Mode is a repeater feature that allows a standalone repeater to support analogue and digital users. When configured for this,...

Multi-customer MOTOTRBO Radio Management

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

One of the misconceptions about MOTOTRBO Radio Management is that you need one instance per customer. While this might be true for custome...

Some notes on using Radio Management in Offline Mode

Tuesday, October 06, 2020

This information is now part of this document .

Some notes on OTAP over Wi-Fi.

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

In EMEA, all -e series MOTOTRBO radios support Wi-Fi*. This allows the radio to operate on a Wi-Fi network and either Receive OTAP data from...

Only on MOTOTRBO: Enhanced Noise Suppression

Monday, September 28, 2020

In high noise environments, normal noise suppression can distort speech intelligibility when the signal to noise ratio at the microphone ap...

Two enhancements to emergency in Capacity Max

Monday, September 21, 2020

1. Voice Interrupt for Emergency Alarm Prior to M2020.02, radios users on a Capacity Max system might have missed an emergency alert in circ...

Capacity Max Single Slot Data Revert now also in Open System Mode

Monday, September 14, 2020

Single Slot Data Revert is a Capacity Max feature; that allows Data Revert to be provisioned per timeslot, instead of per repeater. Prior t...

Inband Location Update

Monday, September 07, 2020

Inband Location allows a radio to send GNSS (GPS; GLONASS etc) location updates while it is transmitting. Until now, a radio would only be a...

Inband Caller Alias

Monday, August 31, 2020

Inband Caller Alias is a feature that allows a MOTOTRBO radio to transmit a user-defined text string of up to 31 characters with all voice c...

Do we have a talent supply problem? Here is what you said!

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

In February, I conducted a survey to try and see what the trend is in terms of talent supply in the radio communications industry. Here is...

Some notes on updating CPS and radio firmware

Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Updating the firmware is (IMHO) an important aspect of maintaining MOTOTRBO two-way radios. Apart from the enhancements and new features, th...

The System Identity Code and Capacity Max

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

The information required for radios to identify a DMR Tier3 network is contained within the System Identity Code. This is regularly transmit...