Motorola Type II SmartZone
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SmartZone systems are Type II Smartnet systems that are networked together via Microwave or Land-line to provide multi-site wide area communications. Radios affiliate with a particular site, and affiliate with a talkgroup which allows the radio to talk on that talkgroup to other radios on other sites. Many large public safety and state agencies use SmartZone system for wide area communications.
The characteristics of a Motorola SmartZone system are similar to Smartnet systems with the following changes:
- Up to 28 channels per site
- Up to 48 sites
- Analog and/or digital voice
Monitoring a SmartZone system with a trunktracking scanner is the same process as monitoring any other Type II Smartnet system, except that you can only monitor one site at a time. For you to monitor a specific talkgroup on a SmartZone site, someone's radio must be affiliated to that specific site. Therefore, if you are monitoring talkgroup "POLICE-NORTH" on a site with no affiliated radios on that talkgroup, then you will not hear any communications on that talkgroup on that site.