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Tree, that dispatcher might have 10 or 20 other line segments he's handling which could be scattered all over that end of the railroad. They are often disconnected from each other and completely unrelated. You'd rarely if ever hear his instructions to trains and maintainers on these other line segments on your scanner, because he's selecting transmission towers appropriate to each radio communication. If you turn all you towers on, all the time, you're going to walk all over everyone on that channel -- including all the maintainers, the guys trying to switch, etc. Not only is that inefficient, it's downright dangerous. Generally the towers have a broadcast range of 10-50 miles, depending on terrain, strength, beam width, etc. <br /> <br />OS
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