[Trunkcom] MultiNet

[Brian J Cathcart]

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 15:09:12 -0500 "SJ" <sjonesy@together.net> writes:
>  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?

No.  If a user's "home channel" (as they are called) is busy they will be
assigned to the next open one.  If all are busy, you get a busy signal.
I'm not sure if LTR systems que additional users when all channels are
busy.  As far as I know Multi-Net systems do queing.


> 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.

Then you would have to say the same thing about ANY form of trunking,
since all forms use the same principle of spreading the airtime and
non-airtime air across fewer frequencies than if you had a separate
frequency for every company.  But if you look at activity statistics then
you would see the advantage that any trunking (whether LTR or Motorola or
anything) has over conventional systems, especially in a system with
multiple users.

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