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After hours of searching, got tired and gave up.
In a simocast trunking system with 8 towers in the site, does each tower transmit
a control channel or does only one tower transmit the control signal ?
 

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In a SIMULCAST system, not "simocast", all towers that are part of the simulcast cell are functionally IDENTICAL.

Same number of repeaters on the same frequencies, carrying the same signals at the same time.

Each tower will have an active control channel and its transmitted data will be exactly identical to the data transmitted by the control channel at every other tower.

Additionally, they will all be operating on exactly the same frequencies within a tolerance of +/- 1 Hz and the timing of signals will be exactly the same and the modulation characteristics of every transmitter will be very, very closely matched.
 
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