[Trunkcom] MultiNet

Fri, 04 Jan 2002 14:15:09 -0600

One thing nice about LTR is you get to use all of your channels for voice 
coms. Everyone has a home channel but if that is busy it sends you to the 
next free one.

Ben

At 03:09 PM 1/4/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>  Hmm, LTR seems kinda silly the way I understand it, if each agaency is
>assigned a "base" freq. Suppose you have five freqs. assigned to an LTR
>system and more that 5 on the system, wouldn't this cause problems? I
>realize that they don't always stay on the same channel.
>  I may be blind, but I don't see any real advantages of LTR over a standard
>freq. assignment.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected]
>[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Brian J Cathcart
>Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 10:56 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Cc: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Trunkcom] MultiNet
>
>
>On Fri, 04 Jan 2002 08:39:29 -0500 "Jerry Kacprzycki"
><[email protected]> writes:
> > So what is the difference between LTR and Multi-Net?
>
>Multi-Net adds several features designed for Public Safety, such as
>emergency functions, priority access, and wide-area coverage.  Although
>both LTR and Multi-Net use sub-audible data signalling on the voice
>channels, Multi-Net's signalling is different than LTR, and in a sense is
>a different trunking type altogether.  Multi-Net also uses a control
>channel (LTR does not), which is basically one of the voice channels
>continuously transmitting sub-audible data (and unlike other trunking
>formats, the control channel can simultaneously be used as a voice
>channel).  Scanners that track LTR cannot track Multi-Net as it is a
>different format.
>
>
> > I thought that they were both made by the same company?
>
>They are made by the same company, EF Johnson (now owned by Transcrypt).
>But, the LTR format is licensed to several companies who make LTR
>equipment (Motorola, Kenwood, Uniden, etc).  Mutli-Net is only provided
>by EF Johnson.
>
>--
>
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>Brian J. Cathcart - KE4PMJ
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