HI Paul,
Yes the firmware is out for the new Motorola XPR8300 repeaters and yes you can have several repeaters on the same channel and you have 15 different color codes to assign to the repeaters. This is the same way I use my commercial system with three different hill top sites and the same frequency with overlap and works fine. Merry Christmas, Colorado Telecom, L.L.C Mike Mullarkey 6886 Sage Ave Firestone, Co 80504 303-954-9695 Home 303-954-9693 Home Office & Fax 303-718-8052 Cellular _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Metzger Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 6:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Repeater-Builder] IP Site Connect Linking of Motorolas Mototrbo Digital Repeaters Hello all, FYI, the N6DVA Mototrbo UHF repeater located within the Hollywood Hills of southern California will be ready for IP linking come New Years day. If you know of anyone or any group that is currently operating a Motorola Mototrbo repeater (either UHF or VHF in digital mode, and soon to be 800-900MHz) within the Amateur Radio spectrum, and might be interested in linking their repeater with the Hollywood Hills N6DVA repeater (which covers the Los Angeles area). Please reply to; paulmetzger@ <mailto:[email protected]> fastmail.net If their repeater partially overlaps the same coverage area, we can link the repeaters and configure the Mototrbo mobiles / portables for roaming (allowing our radios to automatically switch channels to the nearest / loudest repeater in the network). Keep in mind, text messaging (msg inbox, sent folder, free form messages or canned messages), telemetry, radio checks, call alert and GPS operation is supported between linked repeaters (although in the Amateur Radio world, the Mototrbo GPS feature is kinda useless to us, unless we are sitting at a computer, attached to a radio, and running the appropriate expensive proprietary software). Also, since the Mototrbo Digital repeaters have two time slots (effectively carrying two voice channel simultaneously) within 12.5KHz of bandwidth, the repeaters may be configured so that one of the two time slots is dedicated for single site communications, and the second time slot for wide area (linked repeaters). Or both, one time slot linked to one wide area network, and the second time slot to a second wide area network. Again, if you might know anybody interested in Linking Mototrbo repeaters, please e-mail me. Thanks for the bandwidth on this reflector! Paul Metzger A Member of the Following Amateur Radio Clubs / Organizations. N6DVA, BARC, WR6AQR, WA6LA, W6TOI, W6ZE, K6AA, WA6IRC ,220SMA, SCRRBA, ARES LAX, ARRL, The Deutscher Amateur Radio Club, FISTS http://www.hamradio <http://www.hamradio-dv.org/> -dv.org
