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Talkaround
Bypass a repeater and talk
directly to another unit for easy
local unit-to-unit
communications.
Talkgroup
An organization or group of
radio users who communicate
with each other using the same
communication path.
Text Messaging Service
TMS
Trunking
The automatic sharing of
communications paths between
a large number of users (see
Conventional).
Trunking Priority
A scan list that includes
Monitor Scan List
talkgroups that are all from the
same trunking system.
Unique Shadow Key.
USK
UTC
Coordinated Universal Time.
The international time standard
(formerly Greenwich Mean
Time, or GMT). Zero hours
UTC is midnight in Greenwich,
England, which is located at 0
degrees longitude. Everything
east of Greenwich (up to 180
degrees) is later in time;
everything west is earlier.
There are 42 time authorities
around the world that are
constantly synchronizing with
each other. Abbreviated as
UTC (English backronym =
Universal Time, Coordinated), it
is also known as Zulu (Z) Time.
Zone
A grouping of channels.
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