ProScan: Recording - different but common RR entries

[GeekNJ]

This isn't an issue but a question. Not sure if this is really a ProScan topic or if it's BCD436HP/Sentinel adjustments or maybe even RR database adjustments that would alter the behavior.

The below screen shot is a snippet of two nearby towns fire frequencies + mutual aid. For each colored area, the frequencies/tones are the same. When imported into Sentinel & my BCD436HP, they are unique entries. Same goes for the recorded files in ProScan - each entry below would be its own recording. As the radio scans, it might hit a different one of the entries which records it into a different file. As an illustration, activity on 154.76250 might get scanned Glen Rock / Ridgewood FIRE/EMS 2 or Ridgewood/Glen Rock FIRE/EMS 2 depending on which entry was being scanned at the time of the communication.

What do folks do for this - leave as is? Remove duplicates so the frequency only exists once per scan cycle? Alter something in ProScan so these would record as a single file?

Is there any RR database adjustments that you would also consider looking at the below to normalize the info on what is really shared/common?



Many thanks for your input on this.

 

[KE5MC]

In your case as I look at the data posted and other pages I looked at suggest that the information the dispatcher broadcast will determine if its for Glen Rock or Ridgewood. I would delete duplicates as listening to the record is the only manner I see to differentiate them. I have a five city FL that does break the talk groups into their respective cities with the exception that 3 cities dispatch Patrol and Fire from the same control center. If I was recording I would have a similar problem with the combined dispatch, but as a trunked system it is in the database different with no duplication for me to delete.

Try it with the deletions for awhile and see how it works. Nothing to lose other than the confusion of recordings with city names flip-flopped from the same dispatcher if that is how the file recording is saved.

Good Luck,

 

[cg]

You can go into the Options tab and change where your recordings are stored with the Custom Folder options. You need to look at the options to see if there is a combination that would work for you.

chris

 

[GeekNJ]

You can go into the Options tab and change where your recordings are stored with the Custom Folder options. You need to look at the options to see if there is a combination that would work for you.

Thanks but this isn't about where the files are stored on the computer, I don't think, but about how the same frequencies get split due to "duplicates" in the RR database that gets loaded.