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A good writeup there, fleetlink is always good for a laugh when the
truckies start talking shit late at night. I know of a company that
bought some nice ($$$) handhelds only to have them programmed to PRS
channels...<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/12/2017 11:56 p.m., DogSecurity -
Richard wrote:<br>
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Slowly. There's still a lot of MCX760/780s and, T2040s in the
wild, and therefore still need to be supported by the networks,
but the reality is Digital is the way of the future for most
customers. There are still things like MCX1200Es... Probably a 25+
year old RT, that needs a DOS laptop to program. DOSBox isn't
always your friend. Most Motorola dealers won't support these
anymore, because no parts, don't have a DOS laptop etc. So they're
slowly getting removed from service, but people have some ancient
crap out there, trust me. People are odd too, they'll happily drop
$200,000+ on a new truck/trailer/tractor/bulldozer but want to
reuse these 20 year old RTs, because $1200 is a bit much for a new
one haha. I still haven't worked out the logic with that, but
that's another story <br>
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Fleetlink and ActionNet (ActionNet isn't as well known, but works
the same as Fleetlink) are two old trunking systems by Teamtalk. I
believe the gear is based on old Tait mobile RTs acting as a
repeater with a controller doing the hard work, and one of the
limitations that Teamtalk set is 3site select.. This is their way
of doing group calling over Fleetlink/ActionNet.. Basically you
dial a group number in your fleet that has 3 sites preselected.
All users on your fleet that's logged into those 3 sites (plus the
originating site,) hear the group call. However those not logged
into that site will miss it.<br>
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IE in the waikato, group90 could be made up of San Hill
(Cambridge) Maungakawa (North East Huntly) and Ranginui (East of
Te Kuiti) to give Waikato area coverage.. A supervisor on say..
Skytower (Auckland..) could do a group call by dialing 90 to his
staff which will work fine.. But if his staff did a group call on
90, the supervisor will miss the group call and noone would know
he's misses it (short of him not responding) <br>
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When Fleetlink and ActionNet was designed, it really had
individual calls in mind. 3site select was bought in to reduce the
network load. Some sites might have 5 trunking channels, plus the
control channel, if you had group calls going over the whole node,
you'd potentially quickly fill up those channels on some sites and
not others. On the flipside, Digital trunking (DMR Tier3 uses TDMA
so a 6 channel analog site, can potentially be changed to a 6
channel digital site - with timeslots now giving 12 'channels') is
mostly done by group calls (but private calls are possible) and
nowadays people seem to be more interested in Group calls, but
want the coverage of one of the Teamtalk networks. For some
customers, it's also easier to pay $40/month per subscriber plus
buy/lease an RT, than it is to set up their own repeater network
and have ongoing maintenance costs etc. When a TT repeater/site
goes down, they lose comms, but don't have to fix it. Some
customers want complete control over their system, and don't want
to wait for a spare repeater channel to be free if they are high
voice traffic customer so Teamtalk isn't a suitable option for
them. A lot of people are also quite happy paying 150/year to RSM
for their own conventional simplex channel because they don't need
the geographical coverage. You also get the odd customer who just
want to use PRS because they don't want to pay a yearly RSM fee,
which is just a health and safety disaster in the making. <br>
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Teamtalk was all about trunking, but now they want to get into
conventional stuff more than they currently are (they supply
single site repeaters, plus own the repeater gear for Auckland
Fire UHF network, and St Johns repeater network etc.)<br>
Richard<br>
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Sent from a mobile device. Please excuse my brevity, punctuation
and spelling. <br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 15 December 2017 8:59:25 PM NZDT,
Radio Scanner <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rs157950@gmail.com"><rs157950@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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padding-left: 1ex;"> So does that signal the end of the
MPT1327 network?<br>
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