[TrunkCom] Re: PermNet?

[Chris Parris]

I think what we're talking about here is simply a number of cross-band repeaters tied in to the TRS as a talk-group. PERM-NET is simply a talk-group label that they use to designate this set up. It's not a system of itself, like a Nextel or such.

Other areas of the country have done the same thing, which makes a lot of sense when you have various agencies operating with different, non-compatable radio systems. I know in the Tucson, AZ area, they have a VHF-hi, UHF and 800 conventional repeaters all
tied in to each other, so any agency can select this repeater on their own radios, and talk to an agency on a different radio setup.

Joe Hathaway wrote:

> One of the talkgroups on the system is PermNet, where I hear members of allagencies contacting one another.
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> It took a while to figure out that it is truly a Star Trek translator system that has a talkgroup, channel,
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> or frequency on every system, a receiver that monitors every system, and  transmitters that rebroadcast every
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> system's PermNet transmissions in the proper format on every other system's PermNet channel.  And it works!
>

Chris Parris
Beaverton, OR