Ok, how about anyone from anywhere that has loaded a big statewide system while preserving the ability to turn fairly small departments on and off.
there are so many options with favorites, multi levels of quick keys, avoids, etc. I don't think I can remember endless levels of QKs.
anyone?
Many options and what works for some won't work for others. Having said that, here's what I've done for the State of Maryland:
We have 23 counties so I've assigned each county a number from 1-23. I use 0 for the State
Next, I assigned a number to groups of users/usages (fire, local police, State police, corrections, local government, highways, etc.). These are numbered roughly from 50 and up.
I mostly work within Favorites list 0.
I put our state system in as System 0.
Each county is programmed as the county system ID (1-23)
The sites are mostly county based so each site is assigned the same 1-23 (roughly).
Within the state and county systems, each department is assigned as I describe above - state or county level.
So, for Baltimore County (3) Maryland, fire (50) is the QK sequence 0.3.50 (FL=0, Baltimore County=3, fire=50)
For Prince George (16) County Maryland, fire (50) is 0.16.50 (FL=0, PG County=16, fire=50)
For State police in Prince George (16) Maryland, state police (61) is 0.16.61
For those State police (61) talkgroups on the State system (0), the QK sequence is 0.0.61 (FL=0, State=0, State police=61)
When I move around in the state, I enable the site(s) closest to the county I'm currently in (again, my site QK values match the county IDs).
Hopefully you can see the pattern.
There are some exceptions but the general rules apply (I keep a cheat sheet handy too).
The frustrating part is that it is really hard to tell what is enabled (or not) with those little numbers and and stars on the display.