Wow! Thank you very much for your detailed solution. That is what I needed to learn. Thank you!
BTW. Just wondering how come they have combined both San Diego and Imperial Counties in the following list: San Diego-Imperial County RCS NextGen
The two counties are listed together since this is a regional system, not one specific to a single city, county, or other agency. Since they all work together, using the same basic system, they are combined correctly in the database.
Statewide systems are treated the same way. Every site, every city, county, or other specific agency that uses the system is combined on it's database page.
This is the statewide system for Louisiana, which borders Texas to my east.
Louisiana Wireless Information Network (LWIN) Trunking System Profile
www.radioreference.com
That's a much larger system than the one you are looking at, but everything is contained on the same database page.
My current issue now is if I want to import that entire list to my scanner, I get the following warning:
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I'm wondering if they could split the Counties sometime in the future, maybe the list would be smaller? Just a thought?
Or is there a way to workaround this warning or issue I currently have?
What you are trying to import exceeds the capability of your scanner. These are specified on the
Wiki page for the 325P2.
- Groups per system: 20 maximum
- Systems: 500 maximum
- Talkgroups per trunked system: 500 maximum
When importing a system via ProScan, or any other software that supports both your scanner as well as importing from RadioReference, each Department is imported as a separate Group. That might be a group that is specific for a smaller city, or perhaps individual groups for the major agencies for a specific city, ie: Police, Fire, Public Works, etc, are broken up into individual Departments in the database, and are thus treated as individual Groups when importing.
For the system in question,
San Diego-Imperial County RCS NextGen Trunking System, Various, California, it is too large for the scanner if imported as a single system. But, realistically, you would not want to program, and monitor, the
entire system. Cities and agencies that either of no interest to you, or are out of range, don't have to be included for you to monitor only what interests you. This system includes both counties, as well as most of the individual cities in each.
Import only the agencies (groups) that interest you, and that are in range, For each one, include the sites that cover the area. With the groups, and talkgroups limits per system, you'll probably need to break it down into several systems, keeping each one below the limits.
One of the database scanners, such as the 436HP or SDS100, would allow the entire system with all of it's departments and talkgroups to be in a single Favorites list, but that would be a lot of excess baggage that likely would be not of interest, or not in range (maybe both).
San Diego proper has both an older
Motorola system listed, as well as a newer
Phase II system which they are moving to. Either of those are small enough that they could be imported entirely, but again, that would include a lot of things not of interest.
Getting back to the
original system in question, for San Diego & Imperial counties, sit down & consider, first, exactly who (agency? city? county?) that you want to monitor, as well as considering what might be out of range. On the Easier to Read manuals, there is a
Planning section that has some worksheets that you can use to lay out what you want. You could do a separate system, for each county, with county agencies. Other systems could have groups of the smaller cities, or split out types (like a Law Enforcement system, another for Fire, and so on). While you can't drop everything en-masse into one gigantic system, you can still break categories down so that you have systems of a workable size. Also remeber that while there is a limit of twenty groups (the Departments on the database pages), you only have ten quick keys to assign (0 thru 9) if you want to use those to toggle individual groups on or off via a quick key. Yes, it will take a little time to lay it out, but once you do that, you'll find it much easier to listen to what you want, as well as narrow down the active systems or groups so that you can concentrate on a significant event, like a large wildfire or structure fire, or an incident involving multiple law enforcement agencies.
