800 Rebanding and MACOM

[apco25]

Any word from Macom on what portables and mobiles will be "flashed" to handle rebanding?

[beaujo_fire]

I thought I heard that I would not affect ma-com gear since all the gear uses freqs that are programmed into the radio in logical order.

Dave

[beaujo_fire]

ma-com radios do not need to be flashed since they are programmed in Logical order unlike motos that use a store freq database within their rom

[brueger]

I am the communications officer for my cities fire department - we have approximately 45 Rangr mobiles, some 800m and 67 MPAs.

Because of my position, I am in the planning and coordination group for the rebanding issue. My city is also in the "first wave."

I cannot go into too many details, but I am being told that the Rangr and the MPA will have to be replaced.

Cheers

Brian

[apco25]

That's most likely do to the age of the Rangr and MPA model and the fact that they can't go narrowband.

[FLECOM]

can't go narrowband.

bingo

[Meatball]

I have a chart somewhere, but from memory, MPA's, Ranger's, PCS's and a few early Prism models cannot be reprogrammed for narrow band because they don't have the hardware. The Prisms have a programming issue that doesn't allow them to go down low enough in frequency.

I'll see if I can locate the chart.

[123]

M/A-Com advised us that any 1Meg or higher radio can reband, any radios less then a 1meg board cannot reband {IE. MPA,512K LPE-200,M-RK,etc}

[123]

the rebanding issue is a simple software file upgrade, no big deal. All of our 1 & 2 meg radios already have the upgrade