Most radios can't make use of the very long names used in many of the database entries so why do they exist? When you do an import you end up with something like Missouri Statewi or Kansas Statewide with groups named something like Army National Gu
Wouldn't it make more sense to truncate or abbreviate? Why not use MOSWIN or KSICS and KANG in place of the Kansas Army National Guard that has no hope of fitting on most displays?
Inside groups why not just use Police or Sheriff for channel names? If you are importing a group for Russell County do you really need Russell County in the name of each channel so you end up with something all shoved together like RuslCoSOSpOp. Just use Special Ops. You already know you have landed on Russell County when the radio stops there by the group name indication on the display.
It's kind of frustrating having to go through and rename almost every single entity after and upload just so it's legible.
A feature I would pay quite a bit for would be a customizable database. Basically, like a parallel database that I could actually edit directly and save through the web interface which would be uploadable to radios via software just as the main database is. That would be extremely handy instead of having to hand edit each radio upload or somehow do a save and export/import from one customized radio to another. It would be similar to a web version of the GRECOM EZ Scan software as far as the database manipulation goes.
Wouldn't it make more sense to truncate or abbreviate? Why not use MOSWIN or KSICS and KANG in place of the Kansas Army National Guard that has no hope of fitting on most displays?
Inside groups why not just use Police or Sheriff for channel names? If you are importing a group for Russell County do you really need Russell County in the name of each channel so you end up with something all shoved together like RuslCoSOSpOp. Just use Special Ops. You already know you have landed on Russell County when the radio stops there by the group name indication on the display.
It's kind of frustrating having to go through and rename almost every single entity after and upload just so it's legible.
A feature I would pay quite a bit for would be a customizable database. Basically, like a parallel database that I could actually edit directly and save through the web interface which would be uploadable to radios via software just as the main database is. That would be extremely handy instead of having to hand edit each radio upload or somehow do a save and export/import from one customized radio to another. It would be similar to a web version of the GRECOM EZ Scan software as far as the database manipulation goes.
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