FCC and LTR TRS

[INDY72]

Has anyone else noticed that most LTR TRS in the UHF range are not listed as trunked by the FCC? Maybe this is because LTR for PS usage is too new???? Almost all the UHF LTR TRS in usage are listed as plain PW service. Personally from now on if I see a PS agency get a big chunk of UHF (from 6 to 10 freqs at once) would look for it to be a TRS, most likely LTR, though a few might be Motorola, or EDACS...

 

[GlacierClipper]

Excellent observation. Maybe the FCC gives the user the option of being trunked or not trunked. The FCC does business in a strange way from time to time.

Example: Take a look at how many frequencies Nextel has been under its name in the FCC database. They have more frequencies than any other commercial company. In some areas those frequencies are not even being used. Especially in rural areas where no trunked systems are in place.

 

[INDY72]

Well in the early days of Nexthell, they had the goal of being the first nationwide SMR network and coompeteing with the cellular industry. The first step was buy as much spectrum as was possible and control it. Then install nationwide systems of towers using these. This was over ten years ago,.. and they stilll have not gotton the coverage they wanted lol,... as well as causing magor issues in the 800 MHz band. If Nexthell had its way, the only user of 800 would be them. Anyway back on the topic of UHF LTR, every system that I have researched that has suddenly gotten a chunk of UHF that has been listed as PW,... and then was at first offlined for rewiew because the repeaters were "Use of high power for low power frequency" then suddenly went online with full ok and full power, have turned out to be LTR systems, and of them, two have turned out to be Passport. The current system I am researching is the Buncombe County, NC, UHF. According to FCC, again just PW. According to the official buncombe County website, it is a trunked system, and the supplier of thier radios only does two types of trunking, LTR, and MPT. I am almost willing to bet money that this system is going to turn out to be an LTR system. The only problem I have in confirming it is that the only person besides me that was rollin a scanner up there has moved away.