I prefer a big,powerful,high central transmitter with sattelite receivers. Our city and county uses this type of system and it works very well over some tough terrain. I was never happy with any simulcast system,they all have areas of cancellation and fuzzyness. I'd use trunking before even considering simulcast. Thats my 2 cents worth along with 25 years experience.
Joe Montierth wrote: >The killer on these simulcast systems is in the >overlap areas. If the transmitters are only a few >miles apart, you could see some real problems, since >most everywhere is an overlap area. A rule of thumb is >that a simulcast system will never sound as good as a >non-simulcast system in the overlap areas. If the >transmitters were further apart, and the overlap area >fell into "no man's land", then it might work OK. > >We have one here, and in the overlap areas audio >sounds funny or "buzzy", etc. If there is anyway >around a simulcast system, it might be better. These >systems tend to be costly and hard to set up, and keep >aligned. > >Read this article for some more insight, but remember >that it was written by the president of Simulcast >Solutions. > >http://www.simulcastsolutions.com/PDF/Simulcast.pdf > >Joe > >--- Daron Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I guess I wasn't clear enough. I'm familiar with >>the simulcast paging, this >>is not paging. This is public safety police analog >>repeaters. The proposal >>is to put three in a row down the town, about 3-4 >>miles apart, voting >>receivers at the two south ones linked back to the >>'main' site via UHF >>control links and a voting controller there. So, >>they would vote the best >>receiver and simulcast the output of all three >>repeaters. Not paging, I >>know how paging works, I have a VHF pager on a >>simulcast system. What I'm >>looking for is somone who has seen an installation >>like this or has >>experience with it. Personally, I think it will >>multipath like crazy and >>the recovered audio will be crappy. But, if it is a >>good thing as suggested >>in the recommendation, there must be operating >>systems out there to listen >>to. >> >>Thanks, >> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>Daron >> >> >> >> > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
