mibzzer15
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Really by that logic you would seriously mess up channel use efficiency. The reality is if they needed to contact dispatch they would use a cell phone, or in the case of the EBRCS, they could switch to an ALCO Law TG. That's kind of another main reason for having system-wide TG's in every radio.
Because of the hills and valleys in the East Bay you get decent segregation between sites. If someone was on ALCO SW then they would lose it pretty fast after going over the Sunol grade. The radio would then see ALCO East coming from Sunol Ridge and switch to that. Since the control channel announces neighboring sites the radios sample these channels and will switch when the signal is stronger (though site preferences can be set for that in the radio)..
Ok that makes sense...I wasn't totally sure how that worked. Thanks,