What type of LTR system is this?

[ECPD279]

I have found a new LTR system on line, but there is something unusual about this one. I bow to the LTR gurus to solve my conundrum.

I see the ID's, I hear the key up beep, but there is no data burst. It tracks like any other system on my 780, no problems......but no idle burst. What the heck kind of LTR system is this?

 

[INDY72]

as the LTR Passport and Regular LTR have the data bursts,.. unless they made a new kind,.. it has to be multinet.

 

[pro92b]

If the 780 tracks it, the system is ordinary LTR. One of the com companies here purposely turned off the idle burst on all his LTR systems. He said it was unnecessary and didn't want the wear on the transmitters. The users certainly don't notice any difference and the780 tracks the systems just fine.

There are all sorts of LTR system configurations in use. Some have idle bursts on all channels, some have them only only home channels, and others don't use them. The same is true of CW identifiers. None of this affects the ability of the BC780 to track the system.

 

[DJ88]

To Pro92b

Thanks for your excellent explanation about the data bursts. I live in Ocean County New Jersey and the fireground operations for one of the fire departments here is on an LTR system. I, too, have never heard the data bursts everyone talks about with an LTR system and wondered why. Now I know. Thanks again for your input.

 

[ECPD279]

So it's possible to turn the data bursts on and off? I guess that explains it. Thanks all for your input.