Thanks, everyone for the suggestions. I think I am basically finished with the "tweaking". Originally, I had STARS in 3 scanlists. I had all TG's in each scanlist and they were named after the closest towers to my area (Harrisonburg, Bear Den and Fork Mountain) and then each tower in the state was in one of the scanlist for when I traveled.
With the addition of new STARS sites in my area I have created 5 TYS's with STARS, for what I would call my basic scanlists.. I reduced the number of TG's in each list to include 2nd and 3rd Division TG's, and some other law enforcement TG's as well. These sites are Harrisonburg, Fork Mountain, Bear Den, Rawley Springs and the new one that Ghstwolf62 and N4JRI have been looking at that we're pretty sure is Elliott Knob (152.5625). I also have the group wildcard entered but locked out. Private wild card is also entered and unlocked, but I have never heard a private call on STARS.
STARS still will fit into two TYS's on the GRE/ Radio Shack's. So then, I created two other TYS's to cover all of the towers. I also have each TG in these TYS's, although I have a lot of them locked out that I am not interested in. I have the wild cards enabled in these- but the hits should be limited since I have all TG's programmed, even if a lot are locked out.
I plan to usually scan the Harrisonburg, Bear Den and Rawley Springs sites. These seem to provide good coverage when I am in my home area and the towers seem to be associated with these TG's pretty reliably.
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Other listeners have likely discovered better ideas than these. I'm interested in learning about them also.
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Yes, that's what I was going for. With a big system such as this, there are many different ways to program STARS. I was just trying to get my mind to figure out which works the best.
Thanks!
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