[TrunkCom] Trunk-tracking Help

[JEFFREY MICHAEL KENYON]

Well, this is a type I system and these kinds of calls are handled
differently.  You are thinking of the bits in a type II system that will
throw your scanner off.  You know you can go through a spread sheet
program, and set your radio to a type I fleet map to get around those
status bits that the scanner will treat as separate talk groups.





On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Jerry Kacprzycki wrote:

> 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 = 8439  
> 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.
> 
> < S N I P P E D >
> 
> A non amateur radio operator, member
> of, Cleveland Ohio Skywarn.
> http://www.csuohio.edu/nws/
> http://www.state.oh.us/odps/division/ema/index.htm
> http://www.state.oh.us/odps/division/ema/PDFs/2002%20spring%20campaign.pdf
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