ryancousins
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I'm having a little difficulty wrapping my head around best practice for codeplug configuration. Let's say you want to interact with one repeater that has multiple talk-groups used on it. I would think you would only need to create one channel with the repeaters TX&RX freq, and then program all the talk-groups separately into the radio and then choose which talk-group to send to on that one channel. But the way I always seem to see it is that one repeater channel will be duplicated for each talk-group. So you might have ten channels that are all the same repeater freqs but each with a different talk-group associated with it. Now it makes sense to do it this way as it makes it easy to rotate through your talk-groups just like you would analog channels, but it seems like duplicating data is never the best way to do things in the programming world more generally. It seems like rather than create a bunch of duplicate channels and associate each one with a TG, it would make more sense to create a bunch of TGs and associate them all with the same TX/RX pair. That way they all refer to one piece of data, but none of the CPS's I've seen do it that way.
Another slightly related question- on my Anytone D878UV CPS, talkgroups and contacts are separate entries. That makes sense if contacts are only private calls, however, you can make contacts group calls also. Should the talkgroup ID be made into a contact also?
I apoligize for my total stupidity
Another slightly related question- on my Anytone D878UV CPS, talkgroups and contacts are separate entries. That makes sense if contacts are only private calls, however, you can make contacts group calls also. Should the talkgroup ID be made into a contact also?
I apoligize for my total stupidity