Now, once I was on-site, how long is it going to take me to find the channel I need, and call in? Moreover, do I need every talkgroup in the system…. First, if I went to the area that said zone was designed for, it’s easy enough to find – for the most part. While this is a public safety codeplug, the example bears discussion. It had zones exceeding 50 channels – and a LOT of them. I just got done pulling apart a P25 codeplug that was built by a scannerhead. Ginormous zones – whether you’re a scannerhead (“I want to hear EVERYTHING!”),Ī public-safety-prepper (“I want to talk to EVERYONE!”), or just haven’t There’s a lot of schools of thought that advocate for In a pinch, it’s faster to rotate through 15Ĭhannels to get to where you want, rather than 200 channels.
Through zones to get to the group of channels you want. Talkgroups, what if you organized things horizontally with a limited Rather than have a huge zone to scroll through to find your favorite Less our defacto standard – and it’s not a bad one. Now, because of that history, 16 is more or Have for channel knob limitations – well, commercial radios, anyway. Represented by 1 hex character (4 binary bits), and that’s what a lot of radios Is the south side of town (Just beware of Leroy Brown, as Jim Croche warnedġ6 channels is a historic zone size, likely because it is
Now – consider the term – “Zone” – let’s generally thinkĪbout a ZONE as a PHYSICAL zone – like Zone A is the north side of town, Zone B Your radio MIGHT refer to it as something different than a “Zone”, but this is OK – a “Zone” is usually used like a bank of channels – so Let’s put them all in there, but seriously think about organization.Ī well designed zone doesn’t generally exceed 16 Ok – so your radio can HANDLE 10,000 talkgroups – fine, How often do you expect to talk to hams in North Korea? Or maybe if you want to, then do you reallyĪCTUALLY use is less than 16 talkgroups or channels. TGIF talkgroup in existence in your radio. There are entire Motorola hosted courses onįew operator concepts here, because they’re important from a tacticalĭoesn’t need to challenge your radio’s capacity!įirst, you don’t need EVERY Brandmeister / K4USD / DMR-MARC Here – but I haven’t had the training I would like. I wish I could get all of the background info I wanted in
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