Onondaga System with Freescan

[AuntEnvy]

Has anyone been having an issue with EZgrab and importing the Onondaga CNY trunked system?

I am able to get the other county groups copied but Onondaga and Syracuse only show up as the grid with no channels.

Any thoughts?

Thank you.

[DaveNF2G]

With all of the problems you are posting about Freescan, maybe the best solution is to upgrade to better software.

[Chauffeur6]

FreeSCAN is excellent software, and certainly better than that ARC junk Gommert overcharges for.

Maybe the better solution is to pony up the $15 for a 6 month subscription to RR so everything can be easily downloaded directly to the software.

[JoeyC]

Are you using IE to copy from? If so, that's your problem. Use Firefox, it actually works with FreeScan where IE is a big fail.

[AuntEnvy]

Originally Posted by JoeyC

Are you using IE to copy from? If so, that's your problem. Use Firefox, it actually works with FreeScan where IE is a big fail.

I think you and I had the discussion about the firefox in another thread, to which I did agree, that was a problem.

I have been using the firefox with that software since.

It just didn't make sense that all of the sudden some of the groups copied to the clipboard while the other 2 wouldn't.

[JoeyC]

Originally Posted by AuntEnvy

I think you and I had the discussion about the firefox in another thread, to which I did agree, that was a problem.

I have been using the firefox with that software since.

It just didn't make sense that all of the sudden some of the groups copied to the clipboard while the other 2 wouldn't.

Couldn't remember who that was with. I was not able to reproduce copy/ezgrab failures with that system when I tried earlier.

[AuntEnvy]

Not sure what you mean by that Joey... you were able to copy those same groups, onondaga county and syracuse, to the clipboard without issue?

[JoeyC]

If you are talking about the CNYICC, then yes, I was able to:

copy the system freqs from the Onondaga Simulcast into FreeScan ( I did not try the other sites as I don't see that would be a problem)

and copy the Syracuse LE TGs as well.

See attached file. ( change zip to 996)

[AuntEnvy]

Yes sir, that's the one. Thanks for your help Joey.

It wasn't the simulcast frequencies, I got those. I started adding the new groups under that site and it was going fine until I tried grabbing the Onondaga and Syracuse law groups. When I copied to clipboard it would only show the "grids" where all the info would be, no channels.

I'll be going back to it shortly to see if it was just a hangup of some sort.

[AuntEnvy]

Just tried again, isn't showing the groups being imported.

Also tried creating another site under the same system and still no luck.

[w2csx]

Originally Posted by DaveNF2G

With all of the problems you are posting about Freescan, maybe the best solution is to upgrade to better software.

I never had any problems with FreeScan and I have not had a problem with the Syracuse system other then missing channels that aren't listed.

[AuntEnvy]

Originally Posted by w2csx

I never had any problems with FreeScan and I have not had a problem with the Syracuse system other then missing channels that aren't listed.

I'm not sure what the deal is.

It has copied/imported everything I've tried except those 2 groups.

[JoeyC]

Are you trying to tell us that right now, you can copy and import anything else, but those 2 groups fail? This makes no sense since everything is in the same format.

[Chauffeur6]

I was just able to copy all six Onondaga and all four Syracuse talkgroup subcategories, then import them into FreeSCAN using EZ-Grab, with no trouble at all.

Everything looks fine in the database, so it must be something on your end.

Have you tried copy/paste into Notepad or Word to see what's on the clipboard?

[AuntEnvy]

Originally Posted by JoeyC

Are you trying to tell us that right now, you can copy and import anything else, but those 2 groups fail? This makes no sense since everything is in the same format.

Precisely joey. That's why I said it makes no sense and figured it had to be my computer, which still doesn't make sense.

I just attempted to "grab" every talkgroup under Onondaga/Syracuse this time and it won't copy any of them, only groups unrelated.

Oh well, I'll just revisit it now and again and see if it "takes".

I appreciate your help, thanks again.

[AuntEnvy]

Originally Posted by Chauffeur6

I was just able to copy all six Onondaga and all four Syracuse talkgroup subcategories, then import them into FreeSCAN using EZ-Grab, with no trouble at all.

Everything looks fine in the database, so it must be something on your end.

Have you tried copy/paste into Notepad or Word to see what's on the clipboard?

I just copied to notepad and all the proper fields/info show up there.

I can't imagine there is some way that big brother is blocking it from certain areas/regions but that's certainly what it would seem like.

Thanks for your help

[w2csx]

I'm not sure why you want to use easy grab, when you can download what you want?

[DaveNF2G]

Probably because of not wanting to pay for access to any info.

[AuntEnvy]

Originally Posted by w2csx

I'm not sure why you want to use easy grab, when you can download what you want?

If I purchased something and still had the same problem, it would become an even "bigger issue" wouldn't it...?

I tried doing the same import on a work computer with the same problem.

I think big brother is watching here in CNY!

[DaveNF2G]

You get what you pay for.