I am new to all the Winsystem, Allstar, and DMR-MARC stuff but got an Alinco DJ-MD5T dual band 2m / 70cm handheld tranceiver a few weeks ago and programmed it with all the local analog and DMR repeaters I could find from Repeater Book, club websites, and from scanning 2m and 70cm.
The problem is that sometimes I will be listening to a conversation that is boring so will change the channel only to hear the same conversation on 3 or 4 different repeaters with some even linked between 2m and 70cm. It seems so many are either on Winsystem All Stars network or Brandmeister Nationwide TG. I get the idea behind having repeaters linked throughout the USA but is it necessary to have so many in the same city all on the same TG?
So my question is, should I just program in the strongest repeater (and maybe one spare) that has the same static TG and delete the rest, or is their an advantage to keeping them all, like perhaps listening or talking on a different dynamic TG on a different time slot or will that be transmitted on all the other repeaters too?
The problem is that sometimes I will be listening to a conversation that is boring so will change the channel only to hear the same conversation on 3 or 4 different repeaters with some even linked between 2m and 70cm. It seems so many are either on Winsystem All Stars network or Brandmeister Nationwide TG. I get the idea behind having repeaters linked throughout the USA but is it necessary to have so many in the same city all on the same TG?
So my question is, should I just program in the strongest repeater (and maybe one spare) that has the same static TG and delete the rest, or is their an advantage to keeping them all, like perhaps listening or talking on a different dynamic TG on a different time slot or will that be transmitted on all the other repeaters too?