Logic Trunked Radio

Logic Trunked Radio (LTR) is a system developed in the late 1970s by the E. F. Johnson Company.

LTR is distinguished from some other common trunked radio systems in that it does not have a dedicated control channel. Each repeater has its own controller and all of these controllers are coordinated together. Even though each controller monitors its own channel, one of the channel controllers is assigned to be a master and all the other controllers report to it.

Typically on LTR systems, each of these controllers periodically sends out a data burst (approximately every 10 seconds on LTR Standard systems) so that the subscriber units know that the system is there. The idle data burst can be turned off if desired by the system operator. Some systems will broadcast idle data bursts only on channels used as home channels and not on those used for "overflow" conversations. To a listener, the idle data burst will sound like a short blip of static like someone keyed up and unkeyed a radio within about 1/2 second. This data burst is not sent at the same time by all the channels but happen randomly throughout all the system channels.

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Trunked radio systems

Central controller

Motorola systems:	Type I Type II Type IIi Hybrid Type II SmartZone Type II SmartZone OmniLink iDEN

Other:	APCO Project 16 APCO Project 25 EDACS EDACS Provoice MPT-1327 OpenSky TETRA TETRAPOL GoTa dPMR Mode 3 NXDN DMR Tier III

Scan-based / distributed control

General Electric Mobile Radio:	GE Marc V

Logic Trunked Radio:	LTR Standard LTR Passport LTR Standard and Passport LTR MultiNet LTR-Net

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