If you delete them and ever add another TG in the future, it will do the same and import all sites,
If you avoid it will not be imported in the future and will stay avoided.
That's not exactly true.
Using a regional system, in my area (DFW Metro), I can append only a single TGID.
That appends only the selected TGID, but all the sites. (This, of course, is not a statewide system with perhaps a hundred or more sites, but the process is the same.)
Now, I can go back & eliminate all of the unwanted sites.
That leaves the selected TGID, and only the Dallas Layer 1 & 2 sites, which are used by the City, and County, of Dallas, along with several other smaller cities.
Now, I go back to the database, & select another talkgroup to add to the same system.
That appends the selected talkgroup (which includes the department it resides in), but it does not append
all of the sites once again.
The key here is that, as long as you do not change the system's name, Sentinel will let you append another selected talkgroup, without dragging the excess sites over again.
Had I edited the system's name to shorten it, say to just the initials NTIRN, then the next append will include all of the sites, plus the selected TGID or Department.
I edit the name to just the initials.
Now, back to the database to append yet another selected TGID. The system, already in the list, was renamed to simply NTIRN. But, I'm appending from the main database, where the system retains it's complete name.
Now, looking at the selected list in the Favorites editor, there are two systems.
The system that I renamed, NTIRN, has the two previous TGID appends, and only the desired two sites.
The third appended TGID, is appended with the original name (as in the database), and all of the sites. Had I not changed the system name (from the initial two appends), all three TGIDs would be in the non-renamed system, with only the desired two sites.
I am just trying to add a talk group. However, when I click on the individual talk group inside viper to append to favorites the entire viper group add to the list. It did not used to do this. As a work around, I attempted to edit that favorite list and remove the individual Viper groups that I did not want. After doing that, nothing on viper would scan.
As
Whiskey3 noted above (
post 3), the better way to accomplish exactly what you want is to use software to import only what you want. You're already a Premium Subscriber, so
ProScan can selectively import just the talkgroups & sites that you want. I (I prefer ProScan, but ARC536 is capable of doing this as well.)
You have three choices in dealing with the additional, unwanted, sites.
You can manually set the ones you don't want to
Avoid, so that they are not scanned.
Or
Use Location Control on your Favorites list. The location & range you specify only scan the sites in your area (based on the location & range settings you use).
Or
Delete all the sites that you do not want or need, which is my preference.
Note that, once you've done your initial append, you can append additional TGIDs without the excess baggage of unwanted sites. But you
cannot go back & append one of the other sites to your list, once you have deleted them. You can do the 'rename' of your working system, then the sites will append to the system as named in the database. Here again, tho, software makes it much easier to extract (import) exactly what you want, to exactly where you want it.
