A Motorola Type IIi Hybrid system is a type of
Trunked radio system
A trunked radio system is a two-way radio system that uses a control channel to automatically assign frequency channels to groups of user radios. In a traditional half-duplex land mobile radio system a group of users (a ''talkgroup'') with mobile ...
that mixes "blocks" of
Type I Fleets/Subfleets with
Type II talkgroups. In some cases, all radios support
Type II, but in some cases,
Type I radios might be used exclusively in subfleets while the
Type IIs are used exclusively in
talkgroups
A trunked radio system is a two-way radio system that uses a control channel to automatically assign frequency channels to groups of user radios. In a traditional half-duplex land mobile radio system a group of users (a ''talkgroup'') with mobil ...
.
The most common reason that an agency sets up a Type IIi Hybrid system is because they have newer
Type II radios that they want to interoperate with older
Type I radios, without having to create new
Type II talkgroups
A trunked radio system is a two-way radio system that uses a control channel to automatically assign frequency channels to groups of user radios. In a traditional half-duplex land mobile radio system a group of users (a ''talkgroup'') with mobil ...
.
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Trunked radio systems