Best way to set up scanner for Delaware?

[FoleyF]

Hello all-

I just picked up the new Pro-106 digital scanner. I live in the Philadelphia area and quite frequently drive through DE and Baltimore to go down to the DC area. I see that the DE system is digital with quite a few sites and tons of talkgroups. What is the best way to program my scanner for my trip down I-95? Do I enter each site into its own bank and then load each and every talkgroup into each site. I'm not sure of the best way to link up the talkgroups with the sites....very confusing for a Newb. I use Win500 to program my scanner.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Foley

[h8tdigitalradio]

Hello,

The PRO-106 does not have Banks, but uses Object Orientated Scanning. Since the unit is capable of Multi-Site Trunking, you can program 1 Site from each county as a TSYS Object (Control Channels and Alternates) and TGs that interest you. Assign the TGs and TSYS Object to a Scan List or multiple Scan Lists. Make sure you select from drop down menu "Multi-Site" on the TSYS Objects Screen. You can check "Check all CCs" if you select "STAT"

As a suggestion, you can program one scan list dedicated to State of Delaware + City of Wilmington, and Conventional Fireboard. You can then use other Scan Lists for other systems (Baltimore, MSP, etc) Since you are just passing thru (like a lot of travelers) just program NCCo and Wilmington if interested.

HTH's

Dave AKA The Tripzter

[FoleyF]

Dave-

Thanks for the reply. Being somewhat new at this it is somewhat confusing, but your post helped me. So just to clarify, if I go to the RR database I see the following sites for DE:

New Castle
Kent
Sussex
Hartley
Winterthur
Hokessin
Rehobeth Beach

There are a ton of talkgroups below theses sites.

Are you saying that I should program each of these and their control channel frequencies into a unique scanlist on my 106? For example use scan lists 1-7 for the above sites and then just add all of the talkgroups to each site? Or is it ok just to dump all 7 of the sites and related talkgroups into 1 scan list?
I think on my Pro-97 I was to set up 1 bank per site, so this sounds different.

Also, can you please explain in more detail what the "multi-site" and "check all CC's" will do for me. Not sure that I am following that.

Thanks for your assistance, I'm still trying to figure all of this out!

Foley

[h8tdigitalradio]

Originally Posted by FoleyF

...New Castle...There are a ton of talkgroups below theses sites. Are you saying that I should program each of these and their control channel frequencies into a unique scanlist on my 106?

Yes if you are traveling in each County. Since you are traveling thru Delaware on I-95 to Baltimore/DC, the New Castle Site is all you need, and the City of Wilmington if desired.

For example use scan lists 1-7 for the above sites and then just add all of the talkgroups to each site? Or is it ok just to dump all 7 of the sites and related talkgroups into 1 scan list?

Either way is fine, and gives you flexibility, however it is suggested that you program the NCCo Site with TGs that affiliate to NCCo. If you look in the RRDB, there are K, N, and S suffixes attached to TG Display on the radio (N-NCCo, K-Kent Co, S-Sussex Co)

I think on my Pro-97 I was to set up 1 bank per site, so this sounds different.

Again, the PRO-106 is a different animal and much more flexible. No fixed # of Banks, or # of Sites that can be programmed except for limitations of memory.

Also, can you please explain in more detail what the "multi-site" and "check all CC's" will do for me. Not sure that I am following that.

Multi-Site Trunking gives you the ability to program multiple TRS Sites as one TSYS Object instead of several. You can program Control Channels and Alternates from several Sites as one. It will scan all CCs programmed, provided you tell the unit to do so. If you were going to program the entire State of Delaware, this would be the best way to program all the Sites, and TGs you desire, and you could assign all to one Scan List, or as many as you please.

HTHs

73

Dave AKA The Tripzter

[FoleyF]

Thanks again Dave-

Here is what I ended up doing:

In Win500 I only selected one site - New Castle County

There are close to 800 ID's in this system and I didn't have time to go through all of them, but selected the following talkgroups and all of the ID's:

Statewide EMS Fire Police
DOT
Emergency Mgmt
7 NCCo Talkgroups for Police, Fire, EMS, etc
State Police Statewide
Statewide Misc.
Transit Corp
City of Wilmington

I just loaded all of the ID's, but can clean out all of the out of NCCo stuff later.

I loaded all to 1 Scan list. There ended up being about 370 ID's, but it's a start.

Make sense?

Thanks,

Foley

[h8tdigitalradio]

Originally Posted by FoleyF

Make sense?

Yep. That will work.

73

Dave AKA The Tripzter