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Cellular Phone Forum / Manufacturers / Motorola / January 2004two way radios and cell phones?
I am currently using the Motorola CP150 radios for my employees at work I'm looking at getting a new phone and wanted to know if there is a phone like the VRS i750 or i550 plus that I can use to communicate with my employees using the CP150 radios. I thought I read somewhere that you can get some type of in-car repeater that would allow the two way radio on the phone to transmit over the UHF frequency the CP150 are using. But for the life of me I can't find any reference to it again. Does anyone here have any ideas? I've emailed Motorola several times over the past few weeks with no response. THANKS > I am currently using the Motorola CP150 radios for my employees at work I'm > looking at getting a new phone and wanted to know if there is a phone like [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > THANKS This unit does it: http://www.escambia-emergency.com/news/edics.htm and costs about 10 grand and takes about 2 hours to set up. Other than that there is no commercially available product. Mark >> I am currently using the Motorola CP150 radios for my employees at work I'm >> looking at getting a new phone and wanted to know if there is a phone like [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >and costs about 10 grand and takes about 2 hours to set up. Other >than that there is no commercially available product. And you can't get a license to run it unless you happen to be a local government.  SignatureAl - rukbat at optonline dot net > >> I am currently using the Motorola CP150 radios for my employees at work I'm > >> looking at getting a new phone and wanted to know if there is a phone like [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > And you can't get a license to run it unless you happen to be a local > government. Not true, the EDICS doesn't require a license as it's only a software audio switch. You can connect any band and almost any style radio to it, including NEXTEL. Now yes you have to be licensed on the two way radio bands that you operate on, but assuming that the origional poster is using his CP150 legally he can use the EDICS to interconnect to a NEXTEL. It's just a matter if he wants to pay the price. Here is more information on the unit: http://www.c-at.com/icripages/icrifaq.html Mark >Not true, the EDICS doesn't require a license as it's only a software >audio switch. You can connect any band and almost any style radio to >it, including NEXTEL. Now yes you have to be licensed on the two way >radio bands that you operate on, but assuming that the origional >poster is using his CP150 legally he can use the EDICS to interconnect >to a NEXTEL. It's just a matter if he wants to pay the price. >Here is more information on the unit: >http://www.c-at.com/icripages/icrifaq.html Okay, I didn't research the device. It's just old technology in a new package. (We did the same thing commercially in the 80s and ham radio has been doing it since the 60s.) Whether it's legal to retransmit a cellular phone conversation, even if the retransmitter is a party to the conversation, is another matter. SignatureAl - rukbat at optonline dot net > >Not true, the EDICS doesn't require a license as it's only a software > >audio switch. You can connect any band and almost any style radio to [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > cellular phone conversation, even if the retransmitter is a party to > the conversation, is another matter. It may be old technology in a software driven world, but it still works as I have access to one provided by the State for emergency communications. It works as advertised and is a pretty neat device. We have the ability of connecting 800 Trunked, 800 Conventional, UHF, VHF, and NEXTEL together on the same communications platform. >It may be old technology in a software driven world, but it still >works as I have access to one provided by the State for emergency >communications. It works as advertised and is a pretty neat device. >We have the ability of connecting 800 Trunked, 800 Conventional, UHF, >VHF, and NEXTEL together on the same communications platform. If it works as advertised you have the ability to connect ANY transmitter and receiver. SignatureAl - rukbat at optonline dot net > >It may be old technology in a software driven world, but it still > >works as I have access to one provided by the State for emergency [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > If it works as advertised you have the ability to connect ANY > transmitter and receiver. As long as you have the right cable to connect the radio to the EDICS, yes you can connect ANY radio to the unit. >I am currently using the Motorola CP150 radios for my employees at work I'm >looking at getting a new phone and wanted to know if there is a phone like >the VRS i750 or i550 plus that I can use to communicate with my employees >using the CP150 radios. No. Cell phones and two way radios speak totally different languages. SignatureAl - rukbat at optonline dot net >No. Cell phones and two way radios speak totally different languages. not entirely 100% so... One of the quasi cellular companies has announced they'll soon be shipping a unit that will, indeed, allow for direct point-to-point radio-to-radio communication. low power and short range, though. . Signature_____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key dannyb@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] >>No. Cell phones and two way radios speak totally different languages. >not entirely 100% so... One of the quasi cellular companies >has announced they'll soon be shipping a unit that will, indeed, >allow for direct point-to-point radio-to-radio communication. >low power and short range, though. That still wouldn't allow them to communicate with standard two-way radios, even two-way radios on the same frequency, unless they're going to be analog and simplex, which might be illegal. (I'd really have to study the applicable sections to be sure.) SignatureAl - rukbat at optonline dot net THANKS for the information, I'm not willing to spend ten thousand dollars on this solution, I'm just sick of carrying a cell phone and Radio everywhere and thought that I had read something about a device that would mount in your vehicle and convert the "two way digital" signal from the cell phone into a UHF signal. I wonder if someone a little inventive could take a second Nextel phone and use it to transmit over the UHF radio??? Thanks for the help. > *THANKS for the information, I'm not willing to spend ten thousan > dollars on [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Thanks for the help. * Why don't you just use Nextel for the interconnect and the dispatch. don't understand why you want to use a Nextel handset and try to use i on a UHF system. Ditch those bulky overpriced two way radios - mmdstec I would except that my company already has a lot of money invested in these UHF radio's and we constantly have sub-contractors come on site that use the same radios. Right now there isn't a chance of converting everyone over to phones. |
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