Posted by Brian Baldwin on March 26, 2001 at 08:45:10:
In Reply to: Re: Talk Group posted by M on March 16, 2001 at 10:31:34:
: Brian, a Talk Group is a number asssigned to a group of radios that must communicate with each other.
: An example: TG 1 is assigned to Police. TG 2 is assigned to Fire and TG 3 is assigned to Animal Control.
: Radios carried by Police may have TG 1, TG 2 and TG 3 programmed in them. Police officers will ususually be on TG 1 but may switch to TG 3 if they want to communicate with Animal Control.
: Animal Control radios are programmed to only access TG 3. Thus Animal Control is restricted to talking only among themselves unless a Police Radio is switched to TG 3 in which case the specific Police radio on TG 3 can talk with any of the Animal Control radios.
: Fire Radios can access TG 1 and TG 2. Thus Fire Radios can talk to other Fire or Police Radios but not Animal Control.
: This is only a simple example to help you visualize how Talk Groups may be assigned and used.
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: : OK, so I will be the first to admit, I am still learning about trunking as where I live I can now hit the seattle area.
: : So I understand how trunking works, and all that however I am still confused about talk groups and how to use them and interpret them?
: : any one have a good explanation?
thanks everyone, I think I might haveit now :)