[Trunkcom] MultiNet

Mon, 07 Jan 2002 16:25:51 -0500

Yep, Motorola's prices change according to the buyer.

SJ wrote:

>  Does Motorola make any more money for a large trunking
> sysytem than it would if it sold the same amount of radios to a county for
> the same purpose?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Brian J Cathcart
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 10:37 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Trunkcom] MultiNet
>
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 00:09:23 -0500 "SJ" <[email protected]> writes:
> > --------Remember, if you have 3 channels in a system, there
> > can only be 3 simultaneous conversations going on.------------
> >
> >  That's what I meant, really. I mean think about it, you have say 3
> > channels,3 very busy channels at one given time. It just doesn't
> > make any sense to put more than 3 agencies/businesses on that system,
> > especially if one of them is public safety(I'm theorizing LTR here).
>
> Steve you are misunderstanding the concept of trunking.   You have to
> realize that ALL forms of trunking, whether LTR, Motorola, or EDACS has
> the same limitation, that being the number of voice channels is the limit
> to how many conversations you can have at once.  Your own local 5-channel
> Motorola system can have only 4 conversations going on it at a time (one
> channel is the control channel, 4 are voice channels).  Here in South
> Florida a local 4-channel Motorola system can only have 3 conversations
> going on it at one time (again, 1 control and 3 voice).  Trunking takes
> advantage of the fact that normally not all agencies are going to all be
> talking at the same time.  Under special/emergency conditions, the
> systems can be overloaded, but that is true of an both an LTR system and
> your local Motorola system.  The difference being, that your 5-channel
> Motorola system only has 4 voice channels available, whereas a 5-channel
> LTR system would have all 5 channels available.
>
> > 3 years ago
> > when we had the ice storm, I had 2 scanners going on the county trunk
> system
> > just to keep up. We had people using their old low band stuff just to
> keep
> > in touch, quite confusing.
>
> Again this could happen with ANY form of trunking.  ANY turnked system
> can be overloaded, especially the ones with fewer channels.  That is why
> these system have queing, for those times when the system is very busy.
>
> --
>
> The Scanner Dude
> Brian J. Cathcart - KE4PMJ
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