Hey, guys.
Had an 07 xontrol head, with the Motorola dual-radio (two single-band APX 6500's, VHF & 700/800) setup in my previous vehicle. 2015 Tahoe PPV.
Worked great.
New (2016) truck has 09 Control Head, with dual-band single-deck (700/800 & VHF) APX 7500. Only flaw is no priority on scan when in Multi-System Talkgroup scan list (both VHF and Trunking scan list, simultaneously).
I can live with that, but, I can't for the life of me understand why Motorola does NOT allow the dual-radio setup with the 09 control head, when they do provide that functionality with the 07 control head. I mean, why have a $650.00 control head do stuff that a $1600.00 control head will not do?
Anybody know of a workaround, hack, or date when Motorola might offer the firmware so that the 09 control head will operate in dual-radio mode with two compatible APX radios containing the proper firmware? (I actually tried this with my old two-APX setup. Got the error code of "CH Not Supported" or somesuch.
Thanks for any help you guys can provide.
09 Control Head with Dual APX Remote Radio Configuration
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Re: 09 Control Head with Dual APX Remote Radio Configuration
Dual radio was supposedly coming to the O9 head, but with the imminent release of the 8500 mobile I doubt we'll see it now.
Multi-system scan is incapable of priority because of how it's handled on trunking systems - with embedded data in the voice channel stream (or subaudible data on a 3600 analog system) versus "lookback" to the priority channel in conventional. Many sysadmins discourage or don't allow multi-system trunking scan due to the likelihood of missing traffic.
Multi-system scan is incapable of priority because of how it's handled on trunking systems - with embedded data in the voice channel stream (or subaudible data on a 3600 analog system) versus "lookback" to the priority channel in conventional. Many sysadmins discourage or don't allow multi-system trunking scan due to the likelihood of missing traffic.
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Re: 09 Control Head with Dual APX Remote Radio Configuration
Thanks for the quick (and informative) reply.
Not exactly what I wanted to hear, but.... I do appreciate the info.
Not exactly what I wanted to hear, but.... I do appreciate the info.