picassolsus
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Hi all!,
I'll introduce myself- name's Derek and I'm coming back to the scanning hobby after a 14 year hiatus. I last scanned in the late 90's with a Pro-46, wow have things changed!
Anyways, so I did some research and determined my area (Shreveport/Bossier City, LA) is mostly digital so I went with a Pro-106. I've studied the manual a bit, and thumbed through the forums, but I suspect I might need to target my questions directly to other 106 users. So, if you have a second and can weigh in on these, please do and thanks in advance:
1.) Is there an easy way, either onboard the scanner or using Win500 that I can add all of the entries in a search range to a scan list? Example, I find myself switching from 'scan' to 'search' to quickly run through the GMRS/FRS/DOT pre-pgrogrammed search range often. I'd like to drop these same frequencies straight into a scan list that I can turn on and off in conjunction with my other lists I scan regularly.
2.) Back in the day, I had one of RadioShack's TERRIBLE frequency counters....God, I can't remember the model but I know I always wished I had an Optoelectronics model instead. Now with Signal Stalker, do you guys find it to be pretty reliable in pegging a frequency as opposed to a dedicated counter? Let me give you a scenario, and maybe a few of you could weigh in on how you would approach it. Example, when we pick up my daughter from daycare, the staff calls to the children's area over Shure wireless mics on their belts. Now, I know they are probably running around 170mhz area, but, let's assume I didn't know *quite* that specifically the range and I wanted to determine their freq. relatively quickly. Button by button, how have you guys found the quickest way to get Signal Stalker up and running when you've not got 30-45 minutes to hang around and wait on them to key the mics? Another scenario would be you pull into the parking lot outside Best Buy and see all of the staff walking around with walkies. Same situation, I know they're probably GMRS or FRS or the likes but how would you quickly setup your Signal Stalker to grab them?
Which leads to.....
3.) What's the easiest way to delete a configured Signal Stalked range? I can create one but it seems it gets thrown in with my default scan list which I believe is the proper behavior. However, I can't quite figure out how to turn it back off once its on.
4.) Back when I scanned last, the squelch dial could be turned all the way off on all channels even trunked 800mhz until you heard static. I notice with some of these new digital trunking systems I'm scanning, squelch doesn't even seem to matter-- even totally counter clockwise there's no static. This is accredited to the nature of a digital trunking system I'm assuming? I see conventional frequencies do still need squelching.
5.) If I understand correctly, a talkgroup is a collection of individual radios belonging to a certain control channel. So if I identified the radio of a specific individual I wanted to regularly listen to, is there some way to make that specific radio ID/serial number/identifier/whatever a favorite as opposed to adding the frequency to favorites? That way I could set an alert when that specific radio transmitted?
Thanks for taking the time for my long winded thread guys and it's great to be back!
I'm really enjoying the luxury afforded by Win500-- something like that was only a dream back when I first got started!
Take care,
Derek in Shreveport
Pro-106 running Win500 via Parallel's in XP on OSX Snow Leopard
I'll introduce myself- name's Derek and I'm coming back to the scanning hobby after a 14 year hiatus. I last scanned in the late 90's with a Pro-46, wow have things changed!
Anyways, so I did some research and determined my area (Shreveport/Bossier City, LA) is mostly digital so I went with a Pro-106. I've studied the manual a bit, and thumbed through the forums, but I suspect I might need to target my questions directly to other 106 users. So, if you have a second and can weigh in on these, please do and thanks in advance:
1.) Is there an easy way, either onboard the scanner or using Win500 that I can add all of the entries in a search range to a scan list? Example, I find myself switching from 'scan' to 'search' to quickly run through the GMRS/FRS/DOT pre-pgrogrammed search range often. I'd like to drop these same frequencies straight into a scan list that I can turn on and off in conjunction with my other lists I scan regularly.
2.) Back in the day, I had one of RadioShack's TERRIBLE frequency counters....God, I can't remember the model but I know I always wished I had an Optoelectronics model instead. Now with Signal Stalker, do you guys find it to be pretty reliable in pegging a frequency as opposed to a dedicated counter? Let me give you a scenario, and maybe a few of you could weigh in on how you would approach it. Example, when we pick up my daughter from daycare, the staff calls to the children's area over Shure wireless mics on their belts. Now, I know they are probably running around 170mhz area, but, let's assume I didn't know *quite* that specifically the range and I wanted to determine their freq. relatively quickly. Button by button, how have you guys found the quickest way to get Signal Stalker up and running when you've not got 30-45 minutes to hang around and wait on them to key the mics? Another scenario would be you pull into the parking lot outside Best Buy and see all of the staff walking around with walkies. Same situation, I know they're probably GMRS or FRS or the likes but how would you quickly setup your Signal Stalker to grab them?
Which leads to.....
3.) What's the easiest way to delete a configured Signal Stalked range? I can create one but it seems it gets thrown in with my default scan list which I believe is the proper behavior. However, I can't quite figure out how to turn it back off once its on.
4.) Back when I scanned last, the squelch dial could be turned all the way off on all channels even trunked 800mhz until you heard static. I notice with some of these new digital trunking systems I'm scanning, squelch doesn't even seem to matter-- even totally counter clockwise there's no static. This is accredited to the nature of a digital trunking system I'm assuming? I see conventional frequencies do still need squelching.
5.) If I understand correctly, a talkgroup is a collection of individual radios belonging to a certain control channel. So if I identified the radio of a specific individual I wanted to regularly listen to, is there some way to make that specific radio ID/serial number/identifier/whatever a favorite as opposed to adding the frequency to favorites? That way I could set an alert when that specific radio transmitted?
Thanks for taking the time for my long winded thread guys and it's great to be back!
I'm really enjoying the luxury afforded by Win500-- something like that was only a dream back when I first got started!
Take care,
Derek in Shreveport
Pro-106 running Win500 via Parallel's in XP on OSX Snow Leopard