Capacity Plus on a single repeater
Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 1:47 pm
First question: Is it possible to trunk a single MotoTRBO repeater?
I have no experience using Capacity Plus and at $1000 per repeater plus $30 per mobile/portable I really can't afford to buy & try. My situation is that two different companies shared the cost of a single MotoTRBO repeater last year. One company is using slot A the other using slot B with around 50 radios total on-site. One issue is that ‘Company A’ uses the repeater far more then ‘Company B’ and is getting occasional denial tones. The other issue and far more important to both companies is that in the event of an emergency both companies would like to be able to talk to each other to notify them of the emergency at the SAME time. The companies do want to be able to eavesdrop on each other so adding each other’s talk group is not an option. As far as I know you cannot talk across repeater slots, so to accomplish this without Capacity Plus priority scan would need to be implemented.
Second question: Is across slot scan reliable enough that every radio will hear an emergency call even if talk is already happening on another slot?
I have no experience using Capacity Plus and at $1000 per repeater plus $30 per mobile/portable I really can't afford to buy & try. My situation is that two different companies shared the cost of a single MotoTRBO repeater last year. One company is using slot A the other using slot B with around 50 radios total on-site. One issue is that ‘Company A’ uses the repeater far more then ‘Company B’ and is getting occasional denial tones. The other issue and far more important to both companies is that in the event of an emergency both companies would like to be able to talk to each other to notify them of the emergency at the SAME time. The companies do want to be able to eavesdrop on each other so adding each other’s talk group is not an option. As far as I know you cannot talk across repeater slots, so to accomplish this without Capacity Plus priority scan would need to be implemented.
Second question: Is across slot scan reliable enough that every radio will hear an emergency call even if talk is already happening on another slot?