[TrunkCom] Trunk-tracking Help

[Jerry Kacprzycki]

Gentlemen,  that could be one of those talkgroup bits.
Like talkgroup +1, talkgroup + 2, talkgroup + 3, talkgroup + 4, etc...
These are used for special purposes maybe like the one that you are =
describing.  After all these talkgroup bits are NOT divisible by 16.
F.D.s like to use talkgroup bits for in-house paging.
Like where I live, one of the member 'burbs of the Southwest Regional =
Communications System uses a talkgroup bit just for this purpose.
Check this out:
Their main Talkgroup is 8432 for Dispatching purposes.
Their Talkgroup Bit, for in-house paging, is 8439
Thus Talkgroup 8432 + 7 =3D 8439 =20
As you can see 8432 is divisible by 16
As you can see 8439 is NOT divisible by 16
Maybe that is what is going on here.  Those special Talkgroups are called =
Status Bits.

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