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by mr.syntrx
Tue Sep 11, 2012 10:02 pm
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: FCC compliant VS RTTE complaint
Replies: 1
Views: 10936

Re: FCC compliant VS RTTE complaint

Not much in practice.

Different max power limits (not an issue on a portable), no forced narrowband for RTTE, and they supposedly need that "cyclic keying" power ramp up/ramp down function turned on in Motorola gear.
by mr.syntrx
Wed Jan 04, 2012 8:48 am
Forum: HAMFESTS!!!
Topic: San Antonio?
Replies: 7
Views: 19780

Re: San Antonio?

Hello.

Isn't Cowtipper from around there?
by mr.syntrx
Wed Jan 04, 2012 8:40 am
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: Yeasu P25 Portable??
Replies: 8
Views: 24742

Re: Yeasu P25 Portable??

That's because the TRBO radios they showed pictures of in the paper are TRBO radios :baby: C4FM mentioned in isolation means absolutely nothing at all . There's a lot more to any digital voice signal than the modulation scheme. They said in the paper that they're coming up with their own homebrew th...
by mr.syntrx
Fri Dec 02, 2011 8:05 am
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: Yeasu P25 Portable??
Replies: 8
Views: 24742

Re: Yeasu P25 Portable??

That's pretty common with most stuff you buy there, even in supermarkets etc.

My girlfriend taught English there for six months, she speaks almost no Japanese but she got by fine because of this.
by mr.syntrx
Mon Oct 31, 2011 12:53 am
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: p25, trbo, or dstar. what to do..?
Replies: 21
Views: 47569

Re: p25, trbo, or dstar. what to do..?

NXDN Mixed mode repeater ftw Any P25 repeater will do mixed-mode too. If the Detroit guys were naive enough to make theirs P25-only well, that's their misfortune. ASTRO only is a good thing. Around here there's tons of repeaters hardly anyone uses anyway, and with mixed mode you get old farts who d...
by mr.syntrx
Sun Oct 23, 2011 9:56 am
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: The first Yaerola?
Replies: 8
Views: 23600

Re: The first Yaerola?

If you're going to drop $700 on a radio, it's kinda nice if it comes with something to protect your investment :baby:
by mr.syntrx
Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:28 am
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: The first Yaerola?
Replies: 8
Views: 23600

Re: The first Yaerola?

The only thing you miss out on as far as I can tell with not officially having IPSC in the subscriber is Roaming, where Motorola took Voting Scan, gave it a new name and pretended it was new. If you don't use it anyway, it's no big deal.
by mr.syntrx
Fri Aug 26, 2011 8:55 am
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: P25 Phase 2
Replies: 9
Views: 24610

Re: P25 Phase 2

For a portable radio, the main difference is $5000 :baby:
by mr.syntrx
Thu Apr 23, 2009 3:21 am
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: DV Dongle
Replies: 13
Views: 39245

Re: DV Dongle

escomm wrote:Wasn't aware TRBO was being marketed to hams.

Also, can D-STAR send encrypted credit card numbers from a remote terminal over the air back to the main box which is interfaced to a merchant gateway? You can write citations with D-STAR?

Just sayin'
Over D-Star DD, technically, yep. Legally, no.
by mr.syntrx
Tue Apr 21, 2009 9:02 am
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: DV Dongle
Replies: 13
Views: 39245

Re: DV Dongle

Its is. ETSI TS 102 361
by mr.syntrx
Fri Apr 10, 2009 9:26 pm
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: ASTRO Ham Band Repeaters (NATIONWIDE LIST)
Replies: 36
Views: 95901

Re: IL Astro Repeaters

Mong wrote:Not to sound overly :xls: , but is VSELP even legal on the :ham: bands?
It's as legal as D-Star :baby:
by mr.syntrx
Sat Mar 14, 2009 7:47 pm
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: Encryption on P25
Replies: 89
Views: 202083

Re: Encryption on P25

roadkillinri wrote: true or not he said he went to a true not pseudo RNG site for a key (40bit) of course...
Wasted effort for a key that was cryptographically piss-poor to start with anyway because of its short length, and even worse, never changes. Fool :baby:
by mr.syntrx
Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:11 am
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: Motorola MIB Strings on PPP Interface for Astro Series
Replies: 9
Views: 26311

Re: Motorola MIB Strings on PPP Interface for Astro Series

Um, I take it you're referring to SNMP MIBs?

snmpwalk it and see what you get.
by mr.syntrx
Tue Nov 04, 2008 5:33 am
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: NXDN?
Replies: 14
Views: 31071

Re: NXDN?

And yet more "DVSI has everyone by the balls" proprietary vocoder shit. :ve4uo:
by mr.syntrx
Tue Nov 04, 2008 2:16 am
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: P25 repeaters
Replies: 75
Views: 231158

Re: P25 repeaters

Is IMBE available in one-off units, or is it a quantity only item?
by mr.syntrx
Sun Nov 02, 2008 6:56 am
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: P25 repeaters
Replies: 75
Views: 231158

Re: P25 repeaters

Been busy lately. Work, travel for work (four countries so far), real life etc, so almost all of my projects have taken a back seat as a result.
by mr.syntrx
Sun Nov 02, 2008 5:39 am
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: P25 repeaters
Replies: 75
Views: 231158

Re: P25 repeaters

Intercepting calls is illegal, cell mapping isn't.
by mr.syntrx
Sun Nov 02, 2008 12:05 am
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: P25 repeaters
Replies: 75
Views: 231158

Re: P25 repeaters

USRP isn't needed - GNUradio can run off a discriminator tap (apprently) I'm having a hell of a time trying to get it to compile and run properly.. its a fairly big, complex, fragile thing by the looks of it... Yep, but a discriminator tap won't cut it for the projects I have in mind, which involve...
by mr.syntrx
Fri Oct 31, 2008 10:22 pm
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: P25 repeaters
Replies: 75
Views: 231158

Re: P25 repeaters

Long time no speak. Funny you should mention OP25 - I've been playing with it for about a week now - the wireshark extensions look quite useful. Next step is to build a dedicated linux machine and move it out of VMware. I was planning to buy a USRP a few weeks ago for other projects, right before t...
by mr.syntrx
Fri Oct 31, 2008 7:48 pm
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: P25 repeaters
Replies: 75
Views: 231158

Re: P25 repeaters

Even the engineers working down the hall from me have a fuckload of trouble getting CML samples.

Buy a USRP with the appropriate transmitter and reciever modules, and... http://www.sedition.org.au/op25/

:baby:
by mr.syntrx
Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:05 am
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: P25 repeaters
Replies: 75
Views: 231158

Re: P25 repeaters

Uh, SDR still requires a great deal of hardware engineering. You don't just program the radio to tx from 30MHz to 900Mhz and off you go. While you probably know that, your post seems to imply it's just writing some code. Couldn't be further from the truth. Actually, with JTRS (Joint Tactical Radio ...
by mr.syntrx
Sun Feb 17, 2008 12:29 am
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: Benefits of D-Star, or any other digtal system at that...
Replies: 45
Views: 80151

Re: Benefits of D-Star, or any other digtal system at that...

escomm wrote:ANYONE WHO BUYS IT WILL BE A TAKER INDEEED............................
for that kind of money they're getting taken
by mr.syntrx
Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:38 pm
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: Benefits of D-Star, or any other digtal system at that...
Replies: 45
Views: 80151

Re: Benefits of D-Star, or any other digtal system at that...

captlpol wrote:So when is the 10 GHz backbone due to be released?
For the several grand per end they're asking, I don't see that many takers if it ever is released.
by mr.syntrx
Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:12 pm
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: Benefits of D-Star, or any other digtal system at that...
Replies: 45
Views: 80151

Re:

Mong wrote:Last I heard, the local D-star repeater owners have no intention of connecting to the "gateway". It will still support data on a local level, which is all we would want anyway.
D-Star DD gateways require some real network faggotry that's best avoided if you can get away with it anyway.
by mr.syntrx
Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:05 pm
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: Benefits of D-Star, or any other digtal system at that...
Replies: 45
Views: 80151

Re: Re:

The Feds have more redundancy built into their systems than even the most well-heeled Moto-tard could afford. I can assure you, use of an amateur-funded P25 repeater isn't even in their last-resort comms plan. If it got to that point, things would be so utterly fucked that playing radio would be th...
by mr.syntrx
Fri Feb 15, 2008 7:04 pm
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: Benefits of D-Star, or any other digtal system at that...
Replies: 45
Views: 80151

Re:

escomm wrote:Next thing you know we'll be calling radios mounted to the rear decklids of a car and calling it trunking...... :baby:
my monitor needed some coffee :baby:
by mr.syntrx
Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:02 am
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: Encryption on P25
Replies: 89
Views: 202083

Re: Encryption on P25

M3ECM wrote:
motorola_otaku wrote:It's mainly the weather. Australia's is pretty close to home, yet yours is, well.. not for me. :ve4uo:
Australia's a big place ;)
Yeah, we even have a missile range bigger than England :baby:
by mr.syntrx
Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:58 pm
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: Encryption on P25
Replies: 89
Views: 202083

Re: Encryption on P25

KD8CPX wrote:I was curious if you're actually using it on the Ham band or otherwise. Because I thought it was illegal to use codes/cyphers on ham radio.
Depends what country you're in. In VK land it ain't :mjban:
by mr.syntrx
Sun Dec 02, 2007 3:56 am
Forum: EQUIPMENT REVIEWS
Topic: Kenwood TK-3140
Replies: 3
Views: 12839

No way.

They're nice enough radios, but a Jedi or XTS will shit all over them in my experience.
by mr.syntrx
Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:59 pm
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: Encryption on P25
Replies: 89
Views: 202083

Tango_Sierra wrote:Sectera would be nice if a civilian could get their hands on Type 1 equipment.
There are separate Type I and AES128 version of all the SECTERA gear.
by mr.syntrx
Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:59 pm
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: Encryption on P25
Replies: 89
Views: 202083

M3ECM wrote:
VE6HBD wrote:use a cell phone.
Meh. It's only encrypted in the air interface, once its on the backbone anyone can access it if they wanted to :baby:
Yep, and Ki is pretty easy to find out anyway.

This is the phone you want:
http://www.gdc4s.com/content/detail.cfm ... 832c4bb4c2
by mr.syntrx
Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:29 am
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: Encryption on P25
Replies: 89
Views: 202083

KC8RYW wrote:OK, fine, let's just let every script kiddie in the neighborhood on our wifi network.
Just enforce IPSEC AH (without ESP etc) and be done with it. No obscured meaning per the rules, and your machines will drop any packet without a valid AH.
by mr.syntrx
Sun Oct 21, 2007 1:07 am
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: Why The XTS 5000
Replies: 70
Views: 144172

M3ECM wrote:nigga please! :baby:

(the girls round here are cheap, they get wet for a mere 3k).
A CP200 will do the job round here :baby:
by mr.syntrx
Fri Oct 12, 2007 8:37 pm
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: Legality of P25 on Ham Bands
Replies: 28
Views: 49841

For what it's worth, ACMA (our FCC's) view is that it's not illegal by the letter of the law, but it's against the spirit of amateur radio because you can't get the specs for P25 without paying $$$$. (Well a government employee can get them for free, but everyone else has to pay.)
by mr.syntrx
Sun Sep 23, 2007 4:06 am
Forum: Astro DStar and other digital voice formats
Topic: Appco P25 Demo'd
Replies: 5
Views: 11274

motorola_otaku wrote:Hmm, I would've thought that TETRA would win out over P25 in that part of the world.
Nah. Tait is their local radio company (gotta support local business after all), and P25 is already the winner on our side of the Tasman because of TETRA's piss poor low powered equipment.