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Originally Posted by n4jri
Here are the disadvantages that I see in multiple TSYS:
1 - Each TSYS has to be separately checked, resulting in additional time taken, and in a greater possibility that you have other system activity going on which is not available on your current TSYS object. In other words, missing a police call while scanning your Fire TSYS, etc.
2 - If you're using your Wildcard to search for new TG's, it's best to have all your TG's for a given system attached to the same TSYS. Otherwise you'll see police TG's show up with no alpha tags while scanning your fire TSYS and vice versa.
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Problem #1 is partly why I use the TSYS objects for geographical separation rather than departmental separation. I use the 20 scan lists for departmental separation. The TSYS objects can be turned on or off fairly easily as required and are there primarily to allow me to focus on certain geographical locations. Although I often have all of them engaged I can easily deselect them (both the TSYS's and the scan lists) to focus on the location and department/user I want.
And I don't use the wild card feature with this file (not usually) because of the problem with #2. I actually have another file in my V-folders that is just the RCS all in one TSYS object with all of the known talk groups programmed. This is what I use when I want to search for new talk groups. Because this file uses most of the memory for just the RCS talk groups it is not practical, in my case, to use as my main general listening file but it is nice for wild card searches and for using with the Multi-site STAT function when I want to hear as much as possible from outlying sites on the RCS.
Allen, if you want I can send you this file also. But it is pretty boring as it focuses primarily on the RCS and virtually nothing else (I have some conventional stuff in it just for convenience when using the file but not much else). It has all of the talk groups I have found on here and other local scanning websites (of course I may have missed some but most are there).
And to address the Multi-site issue, I have experimented with it but find it best to leave it off for most of my usage. For me in my area a lot of the talk groups that I am interested in are only carried on the North simulcast loop. With multi-site on STAT I will miss a lot of traffic as it scans the other sites. And around here, Roam mode can lead to very unpredictable results. This is because there are so many other systems within range some of which share frequencies with the RCS and the scanner has no way of telling one system from another as it does not use the SysID when scanning. Without warning you can end up on some foreign system and not hear anything (at least of interest).
-Mike