396XT I-CALL in FreeScan screen capture

[ch40n1k]

Is this the correct way to add an I-Call wildcard to a group in Freescan?

[DaveIN]

Yes, that works. When you send it to the radio it displays i00000000 (8 zero's) in memory.

[ch40n1k]

Awesome, thanks!

[rvictor]

Originally Posted by DaveIN

Yes, that works. When you send it to the radio it displays i00000000 (8 zero's) in memory.

I'm seeing i00000 in decimal mode and i0000 in hex mode and I seem to be hearing iCalls. Any significance to the "missing" zeros? Am I only getting some of them?

Dick

[cpuerror]

Originally Posted by rvictor

I'm seeing i00000 in decimal mode and i0000 in hex mode and I seem to be hearing iCalls. Any significance to the "missing" zeros? Am I only getting some of them?

Dick

No there is none. When you upload, the i0 gets converted to the proper wildcard. Kind of like when you only enter i0 in the keypad, the scanner saves it as i000000 for you.

[rvictor]

When I enter i0 into my 396XT from the keypad it stores i00000 (5 zeros). Does the same thing on the 346XT. I'm wondering why I seem to be the only one with 5 zeros. Other posts in this thread indicate that some are seeing 8 zeros and 6 zeros.

Both scanners have the system set in decimal mode.

Dick

[sjlamb]

Originally Posted by rvictor

When I enter i0 into my 396XT from the keypad it stores i00000 (5 zeros). Does the same thing on the 346XT. I'm wondering why I seem to be the only one with 5 zeros. Other posts in this thread indicate that some are seeing 8 zeros and 6 zeros.

Both scanners have the system set in decimal mode.

Dick

Don't feel lonely.... My I-Call wildcard entry in the 396XT, for both Motorola and Edacs systems, only stores (5) trailing zeros, as in: i00000

[rvictor]

Originally Posted by sjlamb

Don't feel lonely.... My I-Call wildcard entry in the 396XT, for both Motorola and Edacs systems, only stores (5) trailing zeros, as in: i00000

Thanks, sjlamb. It was getting kinda lonely here in fivezeroland.

73
Dick

[sjlamb]

Originally Posted by rvictor

Thanks, sjlamb. It was getting kinda lonely here in fivezeroland.

73
Dick

Glad to provide you a little piece of mind. You just relax now, l'il feller.

[SM166]

here's another
when i entered i0
the freescann upload it as a 11
and no i calls are coming thru
i call is check enabled

[DaveIN]

You use i and zero, and it gave you 11?

[SM166]

yep will try adding several 000000's
stand by

[SM166]

and freescann says even with zero's it is an invalid talk group
but adding 5 zero's now says i with 5 zero's i00000
now too wait and see
but if freescan says its invalid?! will it decode
what say you

[DaveIN]

I say it works for me. I just upload "i0" as a saved talkgroup with FreeSCAN, hold on the channel and (on a P25 system) see i00000000 on the display. I do it again on an EDACS system and see i00000.

[ch40n1k]

Originally Posted by DaveIN

I say it works for me. I just upload "i0" as a saved talkgroup with FreeSCAN, hold on the channel and (on a P25 system) see i00000000 on the display. I do it again on an EDACS system and see i00000.

Works fine for me too. I'm only using it on EDACS systems right now and I see i00000 (with the hex replacing the zeros) displayed during an I-Call.

[cpuerror]

Originally Posted by SM166

and freescann says even with zero's it is an invalid talk group
but adding 5 zero's now says i with 5 zero's i00000
now too wait and see
but if freescan says its invalid?! will it decode
what say you

Theres a glitch in the automatic scanner optimizer that causes it to identify icalls as invalid. The next version will fix this though.

[rvictor]

Originally Posted by DaveIN

I say it works for me. I just upload "i0" as a saved talkgroup with FreeSCAN, hold on the channel and (on a P25 system) see i00000000 on the display. I do it again on an EDACS system and see i00000.

Ah. Now I understand why we were getting different results. I was referring to what I see when I go in via the menu and look at what's in the TGID slot.

Dick

[SM166]

well after the upload the radio displays 11 - that the number eleven not freescan program, scoll thru the radio to the talk group and i see 11
using the lastest version of freescann
how can you guys not see it - strange
so i uploaded again and checked off erase all systems box and now it loaded FINE! now when i scroll thru the radio it reads
i00000 not 11
so time will tell
thanks