PSR800 --Wildcard

[Lew]

I can't find anywhere in the manual about how to activate a wildcard in the psr 800. Would some tell me how to do it or where to find the info? RR search and EZ Scan search were negative.
Thanks,

Lew in SC

 

[scannerfreak]

Yep, it's in the software's trunked radio systems tab, on the far right hand side. Same for Radio ID's.

Once you have it programmed you can skip it and/or lock it out to activate/deactivate it

 

[c5corvette]

Yep, it's in the software's trunked radio systems tab, on the far right hand side. Same for Radio ID's.

Once you have it programmed you can skip it and/or lock it out to activate/deactivate it

When I do that the TG id is something like "Wildcard!" is that correct?

I've created wildcards for every system in my PSR800 and put them in thier own respective scan list each by themselves.

However, when I scan any scanlist with a wildcard, I hear nothing (while indeed there is traffic on the system if I scan the tgs directly.)

What am I doing wrong?

 

[Lew]

PSR800 Wildcard

Thanx Scannerfreak!

Lew in SC

 

[ka3jjz]

Yep, it's in the software's trunked radio systems tab, on the far right hand side. Same for Radio ID's.

Once you have it programmed you can skip it and/or lock it out to activate/deactivate it

I'll bet this question will come up again - to the FAQ this goes (tomorrow) - thanks scannerfreak...best regards..Mike

 

[c5corvette]

Where do I find the PSR800 FAQ? And, lets see if I understand this correctly...

In order to recevied iCalls or Private Calls (whatever you want to call them) you create a wildcard as a radio id and you associate that with a scanlist?

 

[scannerfreak]

Yes, correct. If you have a talkgroup wildcard programmed for the trunked system you should be getting all traffic that is not programmed and skipped/locked out. If you have no talkgroups programmed except the wildcard you'll get everything.

 

[ka3jjz]

Where do I find the PSR800 FAQ? <snip>

Here you go - not much here yet - folks keep promising to add to it, but it has yet to happen...

GRE/RS PC Object Oriented FAQ - The RadioReference Wiki

best regards..Mike

 

[c5corvette]

Thanks Mike.

Might want to mention what the other poster said that I forgot. Mention that wildcard will only scan tgs that are not already programmed in (locked out or not). I was forgetting this and I was creating one scan list with fire, one with police, and one with wildcard and when listening to the one with wild card I was expecting to hear fire, police, and everything else, when infact i would just be hearing everything else.

Thanks again for updating the FAQ, Mike!

 

[10steve98]

Thanks Mike.

Might want to mention what the other poster said that I forgot. Mention that wildcard will only scan tgs that are not already programmed in (locked out or not). I was forgetting this and I was creating one scan list with fire, one with police, and one with wildcard and when listening to the one with wild card I was expecting to hear fire, police, and everything else, when infact i would just be hearing everything else.

Thanks again for updating the FAQ, Mike!

After reading this, I went into trunked system and made a copy of the system that I was interested in, which I have in a scanlist already and gave it a similar but different name, created a wildcard for the system and added the wildcard to its own scanlist and I seem to be getting all traffic. Wish I could see the original TG's though.

Edit, on further investigation, it looks like you can make multiple copies of a system, call them "fire" "ems" etc, delete all the unwanted stuff from each copy and make a wildcard for each copy...