Migrating from Capacity Plus to Linked Capacity Plus

[wildcat]

We currently have a three repeater, single site capacity plus system. We are looking to migrate to LCP and will be adding a second, single repeater site to the system. We use RAS as well.

One question here for anyone who may have been through this; Will subscribers still be able to communicate with the system if they do not have LCP configured (yet) or will we need to reconfigure the entire fleet prior to the mode change on the repeaters? In other words, will the subscribers ignore the LCP attributes in the beacons from the repeater or will they not work at all without LCP configured?

 

[Rola]

From the System Planner.

4.8.7.2 Migration from Capacity Plus
To migrate from one or more Capacity Plus system(s), the following tasks are required:
• Update the software of repeaters.
• If the existing radios are going to operate at one site only, then it is not essential to update the software of radios. A Capacity Plus radio continues to operate in a Linked Capacity Plus system, within one site, with the following restrictions:
• A call from a Capacity Plus radio at a site is not received by Capacity Plus or LCP radios at other sites. This implies that all the calls from Capacity Plus radios are local.
• A Capacity Plus radio can receive a wide-area call only, but can not transmit.
• A call from a Linked Capacity Plus radio is received by the Capacity Plus radios at the same site.
• All the talkgroups used by Capacity Plus radios should be defined as local talkgroups in a Linked Capacity Plus system.
• In Capacity Plus, the Lost Detection Beacon Interval in the radio is higher than the repeater’s. In LCP, the Lost Detection Beacon Interval must be the same in both radios and repeaters.