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I found this announcement on Reddit earlier this afternoon... Brandmeister TGs 310, 311 and 312 cannot be made static on any device. All current static connections will be removed.
Will this change any behavior on hotspots?
-SF
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Yep, means dynamic only.. Use it, when you're done, it'll time out and be dropped..
This has been happening long before 'hotspots' became a common thing. I personally know 12 repeater owners who've had their finals cooked to death from constant key downs over the last five years.They finally got tired of all the hotspot loops...
Yes you will. Why would you want to monitor a dynamic TG anyway?So, if I just want to simply monitor it on my hotspot, I have to continually key up to reset the timer?
Yes you will. Why would you want to monitor a dynamic TG anyway?
Well, the tac groups aren't designed to be parked on. They are designed for people to move off a busy group to have one on one qsos. 310 isn't a call group.Why would I want to monitor TAC 310?
I like to listen to the chatter.
-SF
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There shouldn't be any "chatter" on TAC and similar dynamic talk groups. One must understand the hierarchical structure of the talk groups to grasp the principles involved. It really isn't overly complicated, but honestly it is not explained very well, IMHO.Why would I want to monitor TAC 310?
I like to listen to the chatter.
This has been happening long before 'hotspots' became a common thing. I personally know 12 repeater owners who've had their finals cooked to death from constant key downs over the last five years.
Look, let's put the TAC 310 blame where it squarely is: Brandmeister for not......
I programmed my base, mobile and HT(s) so that I have all of the static (full-time) TGs in a Scan List, then park on my Local TG and enable scan.Would the Midwest TG or the Ohio state wide TG be the right ones? Or are there others that would be more interesting with regular traffic?
Most of the DMR repeaters are lower-tier Motorola hardware, but despite the "famous name" are still "two mobiles in a box". Like all mobile radios they are only rated for about 50% duty cycle. The original DMR-MARC network uses C-Bridges for the most part, and are limited to how the C-Bridge administrator has configured the available TGs. If the C-Bridge admin has set a TG as static (i.e. full-time) the local repeater owner either carries that TG or not. That's the limit of their choice.So what are you saying? That they were foolish to allow their non-full-duty repeaters to be usable on TGs that get near constant use?
..the flood of inexpensive DMR radio equipment coming onto the market prompted a rapid increase in users. These "new users" for the most part have never bothered to learn how the system was set up, and that's when the problem(s) began.