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Is a trunking Repeater Required?

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jlt206

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Does anyone knows if you have to have a repeater to use trunking, or can you communicate trunked radio to radio if they are both trunk capable?
 

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Trunking by it's nature has to use repeaters. On Motorola and EDACS system there is way for radio to radio communication Uniden scanners call it I-Call. The system has to have it enabled as well as the individual radios.
 

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n2mdk said:
Trunking by it's nature has to use repeaters. On Motorola and EDACS system there is way for radio to radio communication Uniden scanners call it I-Call. The system has to have it enabled as well as the individual radios.

....and with that, they still require repeaters. I think P25 radios can actually have different talkgroups on conventional channels, but that's not truly trunking anyway.
 
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Yes, trunking requires repeaters.
Yes, I-Calls go through the repeaters.
Yes, P25 conventional has talk-groups, but that is not trunking (any more then a single frequency LTR or a "community repeater" is).
 

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And yes, you can program two trunked radios to talk directly to each other in conventional mode without going through a repeater
 

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JungleJim said:
And yes, you can program two trunked radios to talk directly to each other in conventional mode without going through a repeater

Talk around.
 

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wribbs said:
Talk around.

Depends on the manufacturer and geographical location. Kenwood calls it Talk Around, or TA (my favorite), Motorola calls it Direct. Many cops know it as car to car or even simplex.
 

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JungleJim said:
Depends on the manufacturer and geographical location. Kenwood calls it Talk Around, or TA (my favorite), Motorola calls it Direct. Many cops know it as car to car or even simplex.

Roger that, my particular system calls it talk around.
 
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