Is there a clever trick to be able to create more than 500 channels in a trunked system? The Seattle area is by no means huge, and I'm running into the 500 channel limit per system, especially since the 996XT counts site frequencies in the 500 channel limit (or at least appears to), and the King-County system has over 100 site frequencies. Some are duplicate (eg, backup sites), but removing the few duplicates only provides minor relief.
In a conventional system it's easy; you just create another system & groups, and divvy up the channel frequencies in some meaningful way.
Also, in a trunked system, you can create a duplicate system (with the same sites), and divvy up the TGIDs the same way. You then have to (to make the split-up meaningful) set both systems to ID-scan rather than ID-search. Obviously, this duplication impacts scanning speed, and you don't see TGIDs in use that are not programmed. Ugh. Double Ugh.
While I'm on the subject, 20 groups per system is way too low, but there are easy work-arounds for that.
I hope the new BCD536HP removes these limitations. The (beta) manual didn't mention any limits, other than the size of the microSD card. With modern software techniques, that's how it should be (no limits except for total memory size), but we all know that things occasionally aren't like they should be ...
In a conventional system it's easy; you just create another system & groups, and divvy up the channel frequencies in some meaningful way.
Also, in a trunked system, you can create a duplicate system (with the same sites), and divvy up the TGIDs the same way. You then have to (to make the split-up meaningful) set both systems to ID-scan rather than ID-search. Obviously, this duplication impacts scanning speed, and you don't see TGIDs in use that are not programmed. Ugh. Double Ugh.
While I'm on the subject, 20 groups per system is way too low, but there are easy work-arounds for that.
I hope the new BCD536HP removes these limitations. The (beta) manual didn't mention any limits, other than the size of the microSD card. With modern software techniques, that's how it should be (no limits except for total memory size), but we all know that things occasionally aren't like they should be ...