MCC7500 v7.15 console. . . . .
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2016 5:48 pm
OK- this post could go a couple of places. In the old days (Gold Elite, MCC5500 I would say this is a Console issue, however in the ASTRO25 arena. . . . )
Who I am-
System Manager of a portion of an ASTRO25 Wide area network
What I have done- opened up a Case with Motorola and exhausted the resources of the shop --AND-- Motorola, Case is being escalated higher in Engineering and in the ST Group
What I have-
an Astro 25 v7.15 M-Core Controller operating a multi county trunking system (ICORRS Radio System in Western PA)
8 Trunking Sites (6 simulcast trunking sites on 7/800, 1 intellirepeater trunking site on 7/800, 1 simulcast trunking site on VHF)
Numerous Conventional RF Sites, I can't vouch for what the other counties have on their Conventional setup's only what is here in my county-
My conventional set up consists of 4 conventional sites- 1 site colocated with Dispatch site #5 (backup dispatch center) that has 1 CCGW & 3 APX7500 consolettes for backup use in event of a link failure to the master site, 1 site colocated with Dispatch Site #6 (main dispatch center) that has 4 CCGW's & 7 APX 7500 consolettes and 2 XTS5000 Consolettes for backup use in the event of a link failure to the master site along with a handful (4) control stations on VHF, UHF, 800 Conventional, and 800 Opensky for various local system access to other radio systems, 2 sites located at 2 high profile RF site where each site has 2 conventional VHF base stations, Each site has 1 station that is a single GTR8000 transceiver, Each site has 1 station that is a GTR8000 transceiver and 2 additional receivers for a T3-3R configuration. The GTR8000 units replaced Quantar base stations of same configuration.
When my county came on board our Trunking system was operating at 7.11. Prior to moving the conventional base stations from our former Gold Elite Console to the trunking system, the Master Site was upgraded from 7.11 to 7.14. After the dust settled from the 7.14 migration, we started to shut down our Smartnet system and migrated users to the ASTRO25 system. At this time, the Quantars were shut down and the GTR8000 units brought online. It took some time for the local radio shop to have the T3-3R configuration working where we had 3 individual channel modules on the MCC7500 radio screen where an operator could select and handle that channel module as a stand alone frequency/base (except you couldn't cross patch between the 3 modules since they shared a transmitter) This allowed us to use a few interop channels when needed on a lightly used base station for purposes of crosspatching a VHF channel to a trunked talk group (for example 155.340 National EMS when an out of the area medical helicopter that doesn't have the local 800 MHz simplex ground channels programmed in is needed when we run out of choppers with Stat, Lifeflight, etc)
Everything worked fine on 7.14. In March of this year, we upgraded to 7.15 Found out a week ago that our other 2 channels on the T3-3R no longer transmit. They receive, but won't transmit.
Quite a bit of stuff has been tried. But before I type details on the various things tried-
Does anyone out there operate an ASTRO 7.15 system (any core) with the MCC7500 Console, --AND-- either T2-2R, T3-3R, or T4-4R conventional base station set ups?
If so- how are your configurations set up for this? (I am fluent in PM operation and most of the back end stuff on the NM Terminal so feel free to get into gory technical descriptions!)
Thanks in advance!
Who I am-
System Manager of a portion of an ASTRO25 Wide area network
What I have done- opened up a Case with Motorola and exhausted the resources of the shop --AND-- Motorola, Case is being escalated higher in Engineering and in the ST Group
What I have-
an Astro 25 v7.15 M-Core Controller operating a multi county trunking system (ICORRS Radio System in Western PA)
8 Trunking Sites (6 simulcast trunking sites on 7/800, 1 intellirepeater trunking site on 7/800, 1 simulcast trunking site on VHF)
Numerous Conventional RF Sites, I can't vouch for what the other counties have on their Conventional setup's only what is here in my county-
My conventional set up consists of 4 conventional sites- 1 site colocated with Dispatch site #5 (backup dispatch center) that has 1 CCGW & 3 APX7500 consolettes for backup use in event of a link failure to the master site, 1 site colocated with Dispatch Site #6 (main dispatch center) that has 4 CCGW's & 7 APX 7500 consolettes and 2 XTS5000 Consolettes for backup use in the event of a link failure to the master site along with a handful (4) control stations on VHF, UHF, 800 Conventional, and 800 Opensky for various local system access to other radio systems, 2 sites located at 2 high profile RF site where each site has 2 conventional VHF base stations, Each site has 1 station that is a single GTR8000 transceiver, Each site has 1 station that is a GTR8000 transceiver and 2 additional receivers for a T3-3R configuration. The GTR8000 units replaced Quantar base stations of same configuration.
When my county came on board our Trunking system was operating at 7.11. Prior to moving the conventional base stations from our former Gold Elite Console to the trunking system, the Master Site was upgraded from 7.11 to 7.14. After the dust settled from the 7.14 migration, we started to shut down our Smartnet system and migrated users to the ASTRO25 system. At this time, the Quantars were shut down and the GTR8000 units brought online. It took some time for the local radio shop to have the T3-3R configuration working where we had 3 individual channel modules on the MCC7500 radio screen where an operator could select and handle that channel module as a stand alone frequency/base (except you couldn't cross patch between the 3 modules since they shared a transmitter) This allowed us to use a few interop channels when needed on a lightly used base station for purposes of crosspatching a VHF channel to a trunked talk group (for example 155.340 National EMS when an out of the area medical helicopter that doesn't have the local 800 MHz simplex ground channels programmed in is needed when we run out of choppers with Stat, Lifeflight, etc)
Everything worked fine on 7.14. In March of this year, we upgraded to 7.15 Found out a week ago that our other 2 channels on the T3-3R no longer transmit. They receive, but won't transmit.
Quite a bit of stuff has been tried. But before I type details on the various things tried-
Does anyone out there operate an ASTRO 7.15 system (any core) with the MCC7500 Console, --AND-- either T2-2R, T3-3R, or T4-4R conventional base station set ups?
If so- how are your configurations set up for this? (I am fluent in PM operation and most of the back end stuff on the NM Terminal so feel free to get into gory technical descriptions!)
Thanks in advance!