At 1/31/2007 16:40, you 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. > >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.
One could take care of that with a 1 second ADM on the user radio's mic audio. I've also found that ADMs solve the "missing 1st syllable" problem on CTCSS-access repeaters, and allow for setting the DTMF mute delay to near 0 to solve DTMF falsing problems. I used to hate ADMs, but they do have lots of little advantages & will probably add one to my own repeater system soon. Bob NO6B
