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INDY72

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When programmin an LTR Regular system into a PRO-92,... is it better to put all the tower sites in one bank, or each tower in a seperate bank?
This is a two site system VHF LTR Regular and yep I am using Win92.

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With a Pro-92 you can get away with putting all your eggs in one basket so to speak. The 92 does not use the channel slots to track LTR the way Uniden and "real" LTR radios do. I have 50 channels of LTR stuff in one bank in my 92 with no ill effect other than the standard issues the 92 has with LTR. This is not the case with Uniden radios, but the 92 can handle it.
 

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milf:

It does depend on what you are doing. If you are just casual listening, that is fine. If you are attempting to figure out a system...well it depends. Usually when a LTR Regular system is split between towers, the TG's are home channeled on different home repeaters. Even the ID's may be different. This can lead to confusion if both are in the same bank. For example: Joe's Wrecker Service may be 0-05-100 on one site and 0-09-310 on the other. Even if the same ID's (say 100) is used on both, it is likely they will be homed to a different home LCN on the other site (say 0-05-100 & 0-09-100) which may make you think they are different channels when indeed they are the same. The radio doesn't care, it just reports what it decodes on the sub-audible stream it is getting.
 

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Thanks,.. now that would be the useful answer to me as I am going to be looking rather closely at a Public Safety LTR system.. so I will put them in seperate banks to keep all the data gleaned accurate. :)
 
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