Trunked scanner with bank scanners

[fredva]

Something I was curious about: Do the older digital trunking scanners with banks, such as the BC796D and the PRO-2096, allow you to scan a trunked system in between two banks of conventional frequencies? I'm taking about the actual order of scanning, not just how it is programmed. As best as I can tell, the PRO-197 scans all trunked systems at one time and all the conventional channels at once, regardless of how you have the systems programmed into numerical scan lists. Since scanning a trunked system takes a relatively long time, there could be some advantage of scanning all of your conventional frequencies first, then scanning one trunked system, then scanning all of your conventional frequencies again, then the second trunked system, etc. But that's assuming the scanner lets you put the same conventional frequencies in multiple banks.

[JoeyC]

Yes. I can speak for the 796 and 785. They will scan whatever is in bank 1, then 2, then 3, etc. So you could duplicate the conventional freqs in alternating banks, if that is your preference.

[fredva]

Thanks Joey, that's good to know. In some places, the conventional channels can be just as interesting or more interesting than the trunking systems. Some agencies use a conventional channel as the primary, and a trunked talkgroup on a state system as a secondary. I was just thinking that if a person was monitoring two or three trunking systems, but didn't want the beginning of the conventional transmissions chopped off so much when nobody is talking on the trunked systems, that scanning all the conventional channels in between each trunked system might be a good idea.

[kennyloatman]

In my 796D I have ten trunked systems, one in each bank. I also have conventional frequencies in each bank. It scans the conventional frequencies first and then the trunk. I believe this is because most or all of my trunk control channels are higher in frequency and I have all my frequencies in each bank ascending in order, and I am scanning up.