The beacon transmitted on Mototrbo systems is primarily for Roaming and that's where a radio makes a decision which repeater to use based on the strongest beacon. Similar to voting in other systems, except in a voting system, the repeater makes the choice, not the radio. We Don't do roaming in ham and another thing about having beaconing turned on, especially set to transmit every 60 seconds, it keeps the cooling fans wound up at high speed 24/7. Not to mention cluttering the air ways with unnecessary RF. We have ours off!
