The Astro Saber had both P25 and H38 Smartzone (trunking) flash, where the XTS has P25 and H37 Smartnet flash. Both were capable of MDC encoding and yes the firmware versions were different - the XTS being the newest at 8.03 something for DSP. XTS5000's are in the Astro25 family and have yet newer and later code than the Saber's. I've verified my settings between the old saved codeplug from the Saber and my new XTS.

That shouldn't make a difference though since the app_rpt.c code is only looking for OP=46 to mean status and it does decode/act properly on the mdcmacro. I can do an MDC Page (cop,60) from Allstar and the radio beeps accordingly. So from the Allstar aspect unless there is something else being looked for? Maybe I should pour through the mdc_decode.c and .h files to see.

On a side note, I'm happy to see more interest in people using MDC1200 for macros, etc. Its really a good way to go since you don't need to "text" DTMF digits while driving or worry about making an error keying something in. A nice, clean 175mS packet with error-correcting. The only negative is the data burst comes over the air, where DTMF gets muted.

Tony

On 8/13/2011 2:32 PM, nuhtrue@gmail.com wrote:

I also forgot to mention, since the Astro Saber and XTS3000 are basically the same radio, differences
in Host rev could definitely make a difference, all other things being the same.

Bob
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