Peel Region Tower Question

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Is their any reason Peel System didn't seperate their 4 towers with their own control channel and Freq like Toronto has, instead of having one control channel and 19 freq shared by 4 towers? Was their any reason behind it?
 

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Yes, Peel has a few sites that are simulcast (that is, they all transmit identical data over identical frequencies). Interestingly, they're setup as a single site SmartZone system.

I would suspect they did the simulcast setup because they didn't have the need (system loading) to justify an expensive SmartZone system. Remember, they would have had to pay extra per-radio to add SmartZone capability to the system. If they don't need the load balancing of SmartZone but just wide-area coverage, the setup they have now is the ideal choice.

A single tower in Brampton isn't going to give portable level coverage throughout Peel region.
 

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Peel is a Smartzone simulcast system. Always has been from Day One. This was due to the fact that Astro digital requires a Smartzone controller.

IIRC, there are 7 transmit sites plus a few extra receive sites.

In the beginning there was 14 frequencies. Not really enough for a non-simulcast Smartzone system.
 
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Peel simulcasts and has only one control channel and the 19 frequencies for talking.The only reason why Toronto has 4 control channel and their own frequencies for control channel is because of radio traffic .

If you want to hear radio traffic in the North end you put the control channel and frequencies for the north end and if you want to hear radio traffic in the south end you put the control channel and frequencies for the south end so on.If you want to hear every thing you put the 4 control channel and their own frequencies for control channel to hear.

Well Peel and York only has one control channel well Toronto has 4.
 

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nec208 said:
Well Peel and York only has one control channel well Toronto has 4.

Peel and York also have 4 control channels. The difference is in how they are utilized.
 
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Ya they rotate the control channels.I don't see the system busy to have zones like Toronto .

May be in the future they may have 2 or 3 zones in Peel.
 

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York rotates the control channels, Peel does not unless there's a failure of the primary control channel.
 

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exkalibur said:
A single tower in Brampton isn't going to give portable level coverage throughout Peel region.
Geez, at 800 MHz I would think a lone tower in Brampton wouldn't even have portable level coverage throughout Brampton. ;)
 

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Well back in the day when Toronto was switching to the trunking system, they had a single site at FCP. Coverage was TERRIBLE until they added all of the additional sites.

Mike; Are you sure about the system needing to be SmartZone in order to support Astro? IIRC, the Hamilton system isn't a Smartzone system, but it has P25 traffic.
 

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Yes, I'm sure. A Smartzone controller is required to handle digital.

Hamilton's P25 system is Smartzone. Always has been.

Hamilton's regular system is not Smartzone and is not digital capable.
 
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