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INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Motorola’s CDM Series family of 
radio users. This user guide supports 
CDM1550•LS+
™
 radios. These radios 
combine the very latest in two-way technology 
while delivering outstanding functionality at the 
touch of a button.
The CDM1550•LS+ mobile radio operates on 
UHF/VHF PassPort and LTR trunked and 
conventional radio systems.
Please check with your Motorola dealer for 
features available in your radio.
TRUNKED RADIO SYSTEMS
Trunked systems allow a large number of 
users to share a relatively small number of 
frequencies or repeaters without interfering 
with each other. The airtime of all the repeaters 
in a trunked system is pooled, which 
maximizes the amount of airtime available to 
any one radio and minimizes channel 
congestion. 
PassPort
® 
Trunked Systems
PassPort is an enhanced trunking protocol 
developed by Trident Micro Systems that 
supports wide area dispatch networking. A 
network is formed by linking several trunked 
sites together to form a single system. This 
offers users an extended communication 
coverage area. Additionally, users with 
PassPort can seamlessly roam among all sites 
within the network. Seamless roaming means 
that the radio user does not have to manually 
change the zones on the radio when roaming 
from site-to-site.
LTR
®
 Trunked Systems
LTR is a transmission based trunking protocol 
developed by the E. F. Johnson Company for 
primarily single site trunking applications. In 
transmission trunking, a repeater is used for 
only the duration of a single transmission. 
Once a transmission is completed, that 
repeater becomes available to other users. 
This means that a conversation comprised of 
many transmissions may occur over several 
different channels within the LTR system. This 
method of trunking provides system efficiency