mckeeb
Member
Howdy folks,
I finally bought myself a HomePatrol, and now have ALL of Indiana programmed in a scanner (something I could never get done with my 396XT). Upon entering my zip, it loaded up some channels and was off scanning. Sitting next to my 396XT I noticed it spent more time holding on SAFE-T. So i went to check the sites, and sure enough, way too many selected. Most of the ones I checked in the DB were 30 miles. I currently have stock antenna on, and no way is it gonna pick up tower 30 miles away. I adjusted range down to 0 miles, and also 0.5 miles. Didn't help. I even put in GPS coords, didn't help. I guess I'm just in the bubble of all these sites. I'm currently in and around Bedford, IN. Lawrence county. It has surrounding county sites enabled such as, Monroe county (bloomington, hindustan, paynetwon), Orange county (paoli) and more. I was able to simply go in and temp. avoid them to increase scan speed, but when I play around more, it seems to revert back. I do plan on hooking it up to GPS for travel, and want to see how it does with that. I also remember reading about locations being done with rectangles rather than the big circle. Do I have any options to work with to help myself out? Or is going in and avoiding (only temp so far) my best bet. I have not messed with favorite lists yet, but I don't think that applies here. Thanks for any info you got, and ENJOY the SuperBowl!
- Brian
I finally bought myself a HomePatrol, and now have ALL of Indiana programmed in a scanner (something I could never get done with my 396XT). Upon entering my zip, it loaded up some channels and was off scanning. Sitting next to my 396XT I noticed it spent more time holding on SAFE-T. So i went to check the sites, and sure enough, way too many selected. Most of the ones I checked in the DB were 30 miles. I currently have stock antenna on, and no way is it gonna pick up tower 30 miles away. I adjusted range down to 0 miles, and also 0.5 miles. Didn't help. I even put in GPS coords, didn't help. I guess I'm just in the bubble of all these sites. I'm currently in and around Bedford, IN. Lawrence county. It has surrounding county sites enabled such as, Monroe county (bloomington, hindustan, paynetwon), Orange county (paoli) and more. I was able to simply go in and temp. avoid them to increase scan speed, but when I play around more, it seems to revert back. I do plan on hooking it up to GPS for travel, and want to see how it does with that. I also remember reading about locations being done with rectangles rather than the big circle. Do I have any options to work with to help myself out? Or is going in and avoiding (only temp so far) my best bet. I have not messed with favorite lists yet, but I don't think that applies here. Thanks for any info you got, and ENJOY the SuperBowl!
- Brian