Michael Bell writes in a message to All
 MB> I have read and read till my eyes hurt and still do not understand 
 MB> this trunked system and what it is good or bad for.....could 
 MB> someone explain in plain laymans terms about it? 
Trunked radio systems can serve more users.  That's all there is to it.  It 
has to do with the fact that in any group of channels, there is usually going 
to be some channel busy, and people who want to use it.  If the people who 
want to use the channel could hop to another one, they would be able to talk 
and not disturb the first users.  There are mathematical analasis of how many 
extra people can be accomodated by any arbitrary number of channels, but you 
get the idea...
  
The trunked systems put the "smarts" to change the channels into the radios 
and base repeaters, so that the users don't have to do it.
  
Did you understand how the base repeater controller assigns a channel to a 
user and talkgroup dynamically on demand?
 
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