I've also worked with quite a bit of LTR stuff, although not for the past 13 years or so. It was always very solid and reliable; the only "weak point" that I recall was that if you lost a PA on one of the channels, radios "homed" on that channel would be kind of stuck in limbo. This didn't happen very often, but it did happen.
The other thing (that's already been mentioned) is that people have to be trained to pause between the time that they keyed the mic and the time that they began speaking. Even though the delay is only a fraction of a second, it is significant to folks used to conventional radios and they'll need to be aware of. Not a big deal, just a training issue. That said, I like LTR. It's simple and inexpensive compared to other trunking formats, and it works very well. --- In [email protected], "Steven Samuel Bosshard \(NU5D\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have not been following this thread, but have been in the LTR business for > close to 20 years - Most of my stations are Johnson VX with Johnson (they > tell me this is Trident) logic built into the microprocessor card. The 800 > Mhz stations are rock solid. I have had a few switching power supplies go > west, and on UHF I have had a few PA and noisy VCO problems. We run 14 VX's > on 800, 11 VX's on 450, and a hand full of GE M3 and Kenwood TKR820's and 4, > Uniden 460 ESAS repeaters. The front ends on the unidens SUCK. Had to put > cavity preselectors in front. > > Steve NU5D >
