Failsoft by Personality or Talk-Group

[N4DES]

Like a lot of other folks that have 800 Systems we are making our plans to move in the spectrum.

As one of the tasks we need to touch all of our codeplugs and I have been tossing around the idea of strapping the personalities to a failsoft frequency instead of the way we do it now which is by individual talk-group. I'm envisioning
a scenario like this....

Create 28 personalities, one for each if the frequencies of the system.
Put all of the talk-groups assigned to that frequency in the personality, in my case it would be a majority of local gov't tg's.
At the same time create an excel spreadsheet that cross references the hex id's with the assigned tg and location in the specific personality.

I'm thinking that the personalites in all of the radios to be identical with the only difference from dept. to dept. would be the channel assignments. My logic is that any future changes that would need to be made in the future would require a new channel assignment and the personality should really never be touched.

Thoughts, comments, and experiences are requested....

Mark

[Bruce1807]

I see what you trying to do.
The only thing you ever need to change is the zone information.
It will work if you don't do many changes.
I am constantly reprogramming radios but i dont think it would save me much time to do it that way.
we are always adding new talkgroups or converting groups to digital so there is a constant need to go into the personalities.
if your groups are peretty static it may save you a little time but I find cloning just as useful.

[radioinstl]

do you use announement talk groups at all? if so that could change your plan

[N4DES]

No we don't use the announcement tg, but we do have a slot for Dynamic Regroup.
I didn't think if that would be affected of not.

[MTS2000des]

last I checked that's how the city of Altanta failsoft plan is laid out (28 ch Smartnet II v4 system)...but they are also waiting for the rebanding scam to hit before migrating the system itself into the new GEWIN Smartzone OmniLink CAI state system.