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Anybody have extensive experience with this?
Our company is thinking of scrapping our UHF system and getting on a UHF LTR system.
Any input would be great, the good the bad whatever.
Thanks again.

Tyler

Nothing wrong with UHF LTR trunking, really. As long as the system is well maintained, of course. I guess the main question is why are you considering the move? Will the LTR system provide superior coverage to your current system? Do you require a greater number of individual channels than your current system can provide? Or is your whole system to the point of needing replacement anyway, and the cost of a new one look like too much? It all comes down to your particular situation. Your best bet is to talk to customers who are currently using the system you are considering, and asking them about things like coverage, reliability, etc. This will give you a perspective that a sales rep for the system wouldn't. Good luck.

Todd

UHF LTR Trunking is wonderful. We have been using a 5 channel system now for about 3 years and it totally out-performs our old conventional systems. We have been able to move almost everyone from our old conventional repeaters over to the trunking system, plus add new users and not even come close to bogging down the system. The LTR system is also equipped with interconnect that works way smoother than interconnect does on the conventional repeaters. This has been a lifesaver for us. We were running out of PL's on the 10 conventional repeaters we had. No problems here with LTR UHF

Who ever you choose as your provider, see if they will let you try a couple of units before you purchase. Our dealer set up a couple of mobiles for us to check coverage & usability.. It really helped.

LTR is a very efficient and powerful. Setup takes planning. If you are licensed for channels and aren't planning to use them for a long time or ever still assign them a channel number in the subscriber units database. If the day comes when you do want to use one of those channels. You won't have to hunt down all of you customers radios to put the repeater info in. Also your home channels should make up 25% of the system roughly... oh and never home anyone on repeater 13 it just doesn't work (or it never used to).

I am trying to convince my boss the LTR set up would be more effecient. Right now we are trying to decide wheather to upfrade our current system or switch. Our system was set up in the seventies when we were still a small comnstruction company, now we have close to seventy employees in the peak of the season and up to 8 - 10 crews gong at different locations plus mechanics and parts runners who are scattered out everywhere. We have a flexar repeater (it sucks ) that is putting out about fifteen watts out of the duplexor and about 10 mitreks and 6 maxtracs and a couple of handhelds. We would like the coverage to be sufficient to issue handhelds to the foremans to cut down on cell phone bills. (over $1000 month) plus maybe cut out some of our text pagers we have about twenty of those and they are about $15 a piece a month. Our repeater is on a 75' pole and has no power, so we either have to get a new repeater on a big tower or scrap all of our radios and buy new (which will be a hard sell). Any ideas on the cost of upgrading our current system, both purchase costs and tower rental versus the purchse of 15 LTR moble and 6-12 ltr portables. The service price for LTR is 16.95 per unit per month. If any of you guys would like to bid on the work also let me know we are in K.C. missouri
and I'm not sold on the techs at our local Motorola shop.
Tyler

Hi
I'm not sure if its available there, but we are rolling our UHF LTR into a Passport system.
CDM1550LS+ gives you both LTR and Passport on UHF.
Passport gives you a network of towers so you can cover a much larger area.
Cheers
Bruce