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Known
c-Bridges carrying Interstate as of
11/13/2014:
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DCI, Washington St |
SF Trbo, California |
K0USY - Kansas |
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AZ-TRBONET - Arizona |
GeorgiaDMR - Georgia |
NorCal - California
pending |
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next victim |
future
victim |
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Click on a
c-Bridge name to Email that c-Bridge
manager for more details on their
implementation of the Interstate
talkgroup |
The Interstate Talkgroup is up
and running now with the above c-Bridges. Many
more states are covered then just the home state in
which a participating c-Bridge resides. The
Talkgroup ID is 3100 and all you need is a c-Bridge
mapping. If you have a c-Bridge and wish to
join in on the feed, please contact DCI at:
interstate@trbo.org
The advantages of having a
c-Bridge Interstate TG are several:
1) Connections in place
already for full or part-time use between multiple
c-Bridges on the fly
2) Complete independence from the national
TG's (Comm 1, North America, etc) normal traffic
3) No membership, restrictions or
politics (as in DCI/TRBO-6, DMR-MARC, etc)
4) Regional communications and/or
interconnection for hamfests, public service,
weather, etc.
5) Ability to bind your other talkgroups to
"Interstate" for temporary connections to other networks not
otherwise available.
6) Additional learning experience in managing
the use of
the c-Bridge via "Cross-Patches", etc and
understanding the limitations and advantages of
adding multiple talkgroups to a single time-slot.
The Interstate TG idea bloomed
from the Statewide talkgroups that have been
springing up in the past several months.
Originally we envisioned linking the statewides but
that soon was shelved as it would busy out the each
states independent use. This required a new
talkgroup and the c-Bridge to drive the routing of
the talkgroup to minimize the timeslot busies.
Each c-Bridge operator has total freedom on how they
carry the Interstate feed and may come and go as
they wish. There is no commitment required
though we'd appreciate it if you would let us know
if you are permanently disconnecting from the feed.
The c-Bridge manager is free to
map the Interstate feed to any TG, TS or any of
their network managers. So if you are
interested in finding out exactly where the feed
appears on any particular c-Bridge, please contact
the c-Bridge manager directly, just click on the
c-Bridge name in the table above.
If you need help in adding a
c-Bridge to c-Bridge Mapping, check out our
Mapping page. If
you want to see some tips, check out our
c-Bridge Tips page,
especially those tips dealing with
Linking ID numbers.
If you are interested in
providing some mapping service to dedicate to the
Interstate TG project, please contact us at:
interstate@trbo.org If you are being fed
Interstate by other than DCI, please let us know so
we can your c-Bridge in the table above. |