You can return the older DTR radios back to factory default settings and start the newer DTR from the factory default settings.
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More detail can be found in my review of the DLR radios, plus the folks at buytwowayradios are familiar with how to integrate the older series with the newer series.īut here’s a trick that also works, and can be done from the keypad. You will also need the programming cable and the Customer Programming Software. This is when you need to change some settings on the new DTR radios to start looking for Group ID numbers instead of Profile ID numbers. If you want to keep the programming on the older DTR radios, and program the new ones to match, you cannot simply copy and paste the settings and channel assignments. This gives it almost 300,000 unique combinations. The newer DTR600 has up to 30 “channel” hopsets and Profile ID numbers from 0000 to 9999. Each individual DTR radio has a Profile ID number, versus the older DTR that has each Public or Private group has a Group ID number. It has the same channels (and same preprogrammed hopsets) as the older DTRs, but to detect if another radio is in range on the channel it is broadcasting on, it checks to see if the radio’s Profile ID number matches. Each ID can only be used once so there are about 950 unique combinations that can be used. The DTR has channels 1 to 10, and Group ID numbers 1 to 100. If so, it opens the channel for communication. For convenience, we simply refer to these digital talkgroups as “channels.” If the radio detects another radio within range on that channel, it checks to see if it has a matching Group ID number. The older DTR radio sends out a handshake signal on a channel, which is not really a “channel” in the traditional analog sense it is a programmed frequency-hopping algorithm (called a talkgroup or hopset) that will change frequencies many times in a second, staying on any one frequency for only 90 milliseconds. In short, Integrating the older DTR and newer DTR radios can be done if you change the settings in how they “look” for another radio within range. They will work with the older DTR410 and DTR550 radios, but it takes a bit more work because they program differently.
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The new DTR600 radios use the same programming software and programming methods as the Motorola DLR radios. So I’ll close there, leave you to research and hopefully get input by someone with a real guru insight to actual Motorola gear and migration experience. It’s imperfect if possible, how much effort it saves if possible I’ve no gauge of, but in the DMR radio world, it’s been a life saver and sanity preserver that such is possible on DMR gear. I’m assuming that the CPS used differs, but if the data exchange described scope exists, potentially you may have a simple solution regardless of differing CPS’s or a common CPS.Īt the very least, it bypasses the security lockouts that usually stop a CPS easily migrating data though loading an alien compatible profile that should be technically writable to a compatible radio.
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Given the DMR has origins with MotoTrbo (a Motorola system), I suspect some means exists somehow to migrate at least the basic data without a full ground up profile creation of that same data into a new profile/project.Īt the very least, see if importing and exporting of data is implemented on the CPS for older equipment and likewise for the later software for the destination radio. It may require fine tuning as some settings specific to one model may not fit a later equivalent or different series, but the more common part (frequencies, channels, simplex or duplex or repeater mode per preset channel, ‘selcall’ type function data such a tone squelch and group identity operation stuff) should be migratable by some means other than laboriously re typed in manually to create a new baseline template for new equipment.Īnything specific to model and CPS I can’t help with since I’ve no access to Motorola CPS or foreign market models to test the principle out with.īut in essence, that principle is how we typically have converted MotoTrbo style codeplugs used in DMR sets between sets so enabling the core presets etc to migrated between makes of CPS between different make radio codeplugs. So assuming the Motorola CPS does offer this, the data exported would lack the specific individual ID of donor radio, but potentially if the data profile was truely compatible between two series/models, the data from old radio could be (via export and subsequent import into the programming project file for the new radio type. I’m not familiar with the Motorola CPS software, but many CPS’s allow you to export data to CSV format or similar, where you would use a spreadsheet say to do large data changes and save as CSV to reimport into a blank project.