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What is Trunk Tracking?
Your BR330T is designed to track the following types
of trunking systems.
• Motorola Type I, Type II, Type IIi hybrid,
SMARTNET, and PRIVACYPLUS analog trunking
systems, which are extensively used in 800 MHz
communication systems.
• LTR trunking systems
• EDACS SCAT trunking systems
• EDACS trunking systems
When tracking these types of systems, you might want
to remember that your scanner can track more than
one trunking system at a time and scan conventional
and trunked systems at the same time.
Conventional scanning is a simple concept. You enter
a frequency used by someone you want to monitor into
your scanner’s memory. For example, the police in your
area might transmit on 460.500 MHz, the fire department
on 154.445 MHz, the highway department on 37.900
MHz, etc. So when your scanner stops on a frequency,
you usually know who it is, and more importantly, you
can stop on a channel and listen to an entire
conversation. This type of scanning is easy and fun.
However, as the demand for public communications
has increased, many public radio users do not have
enough frequencies to meet their needs, creating a
serious problem. Trunking radio systems help solve
this problem.
Trunked Scanning
While conventional scanning worked great while there
were only a few groups wanting to use the
frequencies, with the advent of smaller, lower-cost
radios more and more agencies and businesses
wanted to take advantage of the utility of 2-way radio.
As a result, the bands that were used most became