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If you have a console of some form, SimuSelect, otherwise no you can not do this. Move to a CapacityPlus Configuration and use the All Call 255 preDefined talk group.
If you're trying to broadcast the same message on both time slots at once, you're not going to do it inexpensively with Motorola unless you grab a pair of radios set to each channel in each hand, key up at the same time, and talk.
You could certainly program all the radios to look for an All Call that takes place on Slot 1, and with proper programming the radios on Slot 2 could hear that call.
Emergency calling isn't usually something to design in after the fact on the cheap.
there is a way... its simple but effective but not fool proof... We had a customer who used XPR3300e but did not use scan. We set Channel 16 as the Emergency channel. aka all call. If you programmed all radios to scan channel 16 only and set to auto scan so they could not turn it off. Everyone knew and it was labeled as such to only use 16 in an emergency.
If you have a console of some form, SimuSelect, otherwise no you can not do this. Move to a CapacityPlus Configuration and use the All Call 255 preDefined talk group.