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ThreatLevelMidnight

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With one of the top NAS "rules" being to never land your channel knob on a trunked TG, I know it is advised to have slots 1-16 go to a blanked conventional personality.

That being said, on a portable where the channel knob is set to zone change instead of channel selection, and there is no other channel change option programmed in the codeplug, would one "blank" TG suffice? Same for a mobile.
 

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Leave the rotary knob set to channel function and set a menu item to change zones as may be required per your needs. Let no zone have
anything other than conventional channels programmed in the first sixteen channels.
 

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I've tried that before on portables. Its an alternative to adding those buffer channels. What you make up for channels in the zone page is now in multiple zone pages. Its fine if you want to do it that way and there's no channel up/down menu item or button assignment
 

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I've tried that before on portables. Its an alternative to adding those buffer channels. What you make up for channels in the zone page is now in multiple zone pages. Its fine if you want to do it that way and there's no channel up/down menu item or button assignment
Thank You!! Exactly what I was looking for. I would think that mobiles would be the same situation then.
 
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