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This all too complicated for me...! Alright if we take Zone 5 as it sits today for an example... 5:00pm 9/29/05
Now none of these frequencies above are located in the portion of the 800MHz
band where the actual frequencies would shift after rebanding. So with a
quick look at the rebanding issue you might think if all you cared about was the
MSP trunk that you where all set... Well you would be wrong. You see the problem
is that your scanner and Motorola radios don't use the Frequency information
when decoding the data on the control channel. They instead use the FCC channel
numbers and then through a table calculate the actual frequencies. As you can
see from the chart above though the frequencies in Zone 5 aren't changing the
channel numbers are. And when this change takes place older units will be tuning
to the wrong frequency with the new channel numbers in the data streams. For an
example after rebanding without a firmware flash or a table
update your scanner may get the info to follow a conversation to ch459 which
then would be 859.7125 but your scanner would try and tune to 862.4625 the old
home of ch459. Resource to check it out yourself:
TA Call sign
checker
http://www.800ta.org/content/800Mhz/call_sign.asp
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