Personal Trunking System

[rescue161]

I wasn't referring to the OP, nor about the idea of experimentation, but to OuterDog's ridiculous comment.

Which part? The experimentation? I liked his comment for that reason alone. Obviously not to experiment on an active trunking system, but to learn about the inner workings of not only trunking systems, but anything. If you just rely on manufacturers to tell you what you need, then to me, that just means that you're satisfied with what they give you. If you experiment and learn, there is always room for improvement and of course, you're learning, and that can never be bad.

 

[Outerdog]

I wasn't referring to the OP, nor about the idea of experimentation, but to OuterDog's ridiculous comment.

What about it? Can you expand beyond your fifth grade vocabulary and say something useful besides "retarded"?

 

[bill4long]

Which part? The experimentation?

No. The rest of it.

 

[kayn1n32008]

I wasn't referring to the OP, nor about the idea of experimentation, but to OuterDog's ridiculous comment.

The 'Gatekeeper' part is spot on too. I fully agree with his entire comment.

 

[kayn1n32008]

No. The rest of it.

A friend offered 3 DMR repeaters, at no cost, to build a wide area ham system near me. The only stipulation was no garbage radios. This was met with whining and *****ing. It was also met with 'I'm not done experimenting with analogue'. What ever the hell that means. The club is full of old hams that won't even enable PL on their repeater system because some OF with an IC-2at, that has never been aligned, won't be able to access their garbage system. It beeps and boops with over modulated tones and it has a ****ty '90's talking controller that the levels are so screwed up, my mobile(aligned and tuned XPR) is on the verge of clipping. Instead, their wide area main repeater gets hammered during openings, and virtually ensures that the pair is useless for a 200km radius.

Their idea of 'progress' is replacing their Mastr 2 with a DR-1 at a FM and TV broadcast site.

@Outerdog is spot on with his gatekeeping comment.

 

[kayn1n32008]

The New England DMR linked network- NEDECN is a really cool. Its almost sort of a 2 channel trunked system to me as the radio does all the work. The network offers roaming throughout new england with 100 sites at the moment, you can drive all over new england as long as you have the sites in the list. The system has full time talkgroups on one time slot, and PTT activated on the other timeslot. A beacon signal is broadcasted from the sites every min or so it picks the strongest from the list when you get into an area less than ideal coverage = roaming. Theres the new england network only PTT tac channels so say you can occupy the 2nd time slot on your local NY site while someone in Maine is on their local 2nd time slot without tying up the full time wide area talkgroups on the 1st time slot

IPSC with roaming is not anywhere close to trunking. Talkgroups are still statically tied to time slots. Extremely in efficient.

 

[chrismol1]

of course it isnt real trunking, haha knew that line gonna be nitpick'd, how bout a tdma static & dynamic multicast voted system so its right for the record. come on man it does have the all mesmerizing talk permit tone, what else could a ham ever need, thank you for "gatekeeping" my bs tech haha

 

[kayn1n32008]

of course it isnt real trunking, haha knew that line gonna be nitpick'd, how bout a tdma static & dynamic multicast voted system so its right for the record. come on man it does have the all mesmerizing talk permit tone, what else could a ham ever need, thank you for "gatekeeping" my bs tech haha

I'm not gatekeeping anything. Sure IPSC can have a TPT, big deal.

Let's face it, the only reason IPSC is so popular, is because the vast majority of hams refuse to buy quality DMR gear. But then there are hams that roll down a highway with a hotspot tethered to their phone... I sure don't miss being on the major networks.