Hey team, I’m looking for some help

(Context) I’m an underground truck driver in the mines and we use DM4601 series radio connection to the RMN5052 mic.

now I want to by a headset online (with hearing protection) with a simple push to talk system in it and buy a replacement cable for the mic and try to splice the RMN5052 cable into a third party headset.

Is this achievable or am I just going down a rabbit hole of money and pain.

I'm currently using Motorola DTRs in my main 9 to 5, and got addicted to it, especially the private call function. I'm thinking of trying to convince my alt job to start using radios, but one used DTR620 in my country goes for a month's worth of minimum wage, so I'm trying to find alternatives.

Right now, my main idea is to get some Motorola T210 (6 new are cheaper than 1 used DTR620), but from what I read, they don't have the privacy call option, so I'd keep them all scanning the same channel/code pair while also having each of them scan an individual pair, which the manager could use to contact that radio directly. But this seems cumbersome and prone to mistakes, so any suggestion is appreciated.

If context matters, the alt job is with a band that performs in theaters and other medium venues, so huge range is not an issue. It would be used mostly so that the stage manager can communicate with the sound/light technicians, the folks backstage and the roadies. Privacy call would be cool so we don't need to hear the manager yelling at someone else.

I’ve already contacted Motorola and I have an account with them. They just no longer support Astro 25 nor the KVL 4000 software. I got about 40 to 50 LMR that need it. I want to OTAR but in order for me to do that I need to establish a KEK. I went down a huge rabbit hole on the only way to get them flashed would be to have Motorola Depot / Lab CPS. I guess what I’m asking has anyone one found a way to enable these features since it is EOL.

Hello all,

I "handle" the radios for the municipal fire department I work for. We have a Motorola vendor for all the heavy lifting, but I'd like to get a better understanding of our portable radios and our repeater systems. I'm responsible for light radio repair, understanding/requesting maintenance on our infrastructure and doing portable and mobile radio programming (to a certain extent).

Are there any FCC certifications or licensing you'd recommend? And is there any general training I should get? I've been picking things up here and there and going through the training on the Motorola Learning Center. I do want to get a better understanding of our dispatch mcc 7500 console and the M core. Also want to know basic things like how to crimp antenna cable to match up to a mini-uhf antenna connector.

Also, I know that someone tinkering with public safety communications can do a whole world of bad and for that reason I avoid doing anything that would mess something up. I just want to know what I'm talking about when I have to understand a problem and communicate it to our radio vendor.

Thanks!

So I was a former radio tech in the federal government but quit due to how things shook up and not getting any support todo my job. I ended up taking a job in a county where I realized that I am hardly doing anything and not being utilized at all and it is in a location that I realized I don't want to live in. I did look at other governments in locations that I would like to live but it seems like most government jobs are dried up and lost funding for those kind of positions. I did have a recent interview for a reasonably larger company and it sounds like they may give me an offer I used to be in the private world because I guess that how lots of us start out but now I am wondering if moving back to private will be worth it or should I stay government?

Does anyone currently work on any single Kenwood / EFJ radio fleets out there that are several hundred radios? I'm specifically looking for folks experiences in the VP line of radios ultimately from the fleet perspective. P25 preferred but large DMR can cross over. Mostly what folks have come across when doing large implementations.

Is anyone familiar with mass importing aliases and ID'S into the Armada software? I just spent a stupid amount of time doing it by hand but I would have rather done it with a spreadsheet ultimately.

So, at our shop we are often asked “what is the range on those things?” On which we never give exact distances. It’s radio, what you’d expect to work, doesn’t. And what you don’t expect to work, works.

For example:

This video shows my MTP6650 test radio going from -82db signal, to complete loss by moving barely 20 centimeters, and back after moving it again. Mind you, the infrastructure we used was a test base station, set up in the room next to this, transmitting 10w into a dummy load, but its RX side was a proper antenna.

The culprit: my monitor was emitting so much interference in the lower 400mhz, the radio wasn’t able to “hear” the TETRA control channel.

The solution: placed my keyboard over the “dead spot” so I can’t put my radio there in the future ;)

Has anyone found decent DP4801 Accessories?

The Motorola ones are expensive - especially when buying 100 at a time. The aftermarket ones all seem to have naff (cheap) mics.

We tend to snip off the earpiece and put on a 3.5mm socket so uses can use their own headphones, which is particularly painful when doing it to the proper Motorola ones.

Whilst it's obvious that pay more = better, the gap between the two ends is excessive - is there anything in the middle?

This thing was released with seemingly zero firmware testing. It's been bugged out the wazoo for as long as it's been around. We've had customer after customer complaining about just how shitty the radio is. We've sent some back, we've documented bugs, we've been through god knows how many conference calls. They just stink. Simple as. They're Motorola's supposed answer to the CP100 and I am flabbergasted by it.

My job is as a system admin and I have radio technicians under me at several facilities but I also manage a small fleet of radios directly. The radio technicians are only radio technicians in name only, about half of the 9 of them know how to program/clone radios.

My question is, how easy is it to open radios and swap parts? Is it worth the time? Would it be easy to teach others how to test parts?

I have opened many electronics in the past and I'm decent at soldering, but I'd rather just swap parts on the radios we have out of warranty, which is 98% of them.

We have XTS 1500s, 2500s, APX 1000s, 4000s and now APX N30s and N50s.