I don't know what state you are in but, Florida is doing a big overhaul of the Med Freg and getting ALL the health care people back on them. They have switched them all to 12.5 freg's. with a plan on what PL tone they must use. Just had on center install a Vertex VXR-7000 with a 2nd one on hot standby.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Helton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 3:45 PM Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Motorola APCOR > The reason these radios are now coming on the market is that the Federal > law > on medical privacy (HIPPA) is requiring the encryption of any medical > information between the field units and the hospitals. Squads that > transmit > patient info in the clear face severe penalties. Some of the squads have > gone to digital cell phones and some are now going to encrypted radios on > their trunked public safety radio system as more areas switch to trunking > system. All of the MEDCOM UHF frequencies are being abandoned since > encryption is not a provision of the APCOR radios. The only frequencies > that > we are still hearing activity on is the two MEDCOM "dispatch" channels > which > are being used by the medical helicopters for actual dispatch only > (location > coordinates, etc.) but not patient information. > > > > Steve Helton, N8RTY > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Coy Hilton > Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 00:24 > To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Motorola APCOR > > Eric, Wasn't the MX500 at one time, Motorolas Cadilac HT? Did they > have the same conector problems? We had only one in our entire Fire > dept. It seemed to have few but weard problems. That goes back 25 > years. > 73 > AC0Y > > > > --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Eric Lemmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Al, >> >> I picked up a 12 watt APCOR unit a year ago, but have not found > the time or >> patience to repair it, let alone try to modify it. The Coronary > Observation >> Radios act as vehicular repeaters, and operate on the UHF "Med" > channels in >> reverse- that is receive low, transmit high. They are based upon > the MX300 >> modules, and use a separate channel element for each frequency. >> >> The service manual for the 1 watt models P24ESN3150A and > P24ESN3151A is >> 6881021C05, which costs just $ 3.06- an incredible price. The > service manual >> for the 12 watt model P44ESN3191A is 6881021C10, which costs $ > 35.37. >> >> One of the reasons the APCOR units are plentiful on the surplus > market is >> because the MX300 system is plagued with connector problems, sort > of the Edsel >> of radio designs. The unit I have was removed from service only a > few months >> before I bought it. What's really scary is that it was junk, but > was being >> carried on an ambulance in Huntington Beach, CA! >> >> I have read a few articles about converting the APCOR into a Ham > repeater, but >> none of them spent a lot of print space to extol its virtues. >> >> 73, Eric Lemmon WB6FLY >> >> Al Wolfe wrote: >> >> > Hi, all, >> > One of the few Dayton acquisitions this year was a Motorola > APCOR unit. >> > Apparently it was designed for medical/EMT use and is supposed > to be able to >> > do full duplex. Does anyone have any technical info on this unit > they would >> > care to share? It looks like it might make a decent > field/temporary/portable >> > repeater. >> > >> > Al, K9SI > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
