Hi Steve, > "Steve Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Well... RF Power Amplifiers are not simply allowed to fail business hours Monday Through Thursday with the exception of 3 day weekends and legal holidays. You've got to explain the rules to the equipment. :-) A lost rf pa should make the phones ring pretty fast. The trick is to understand how the customers are placed on the system because in LTR Format we are not restricted to using one home repeater or control channel. > 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. You are right... It seems easier to put a new user on a trunking system vs moving a conventional user over to... but there are tricks we can use to help the more quirky conventional folks out. > That said, I like LTR. It's simple and inexpensive compared to > other trunking formats, and it works very well. cheers, skipp
