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Trunking Frequency Question

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I've noticed most of the time that the CC frequency is always the last or near to last frequency numerically in the pair. Any certain reason why? Thanks
 

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Moto started that because of smaller systems years ago. the FCC requirement is to ID on the LOWEST base station freq and so Moto started with the highest freqs for CC's since many small systems were only 5 channel back then. this way the CWID did not interupt CC data or force a CC change. thru personal experience i have found tha tif your lowest freq is one of your CC, then it will switch CC to the next available channel the first time it sends a CWID.
 

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Moto started that because of smaller systems years ago. the FCC requirement is to ID on the LOWEST base station freq and so Moto started with the highest freqs for CC's since many small systems were only 5 channel back then.
Adding to that, they limited the CC's to the first four logically numbered channels and then would not let you assign BSI to 1-4. For some reason that was carried on up for many generations in typical (houseclean what?!) Motorola fashion.
 
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