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Pro-95
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Perhaps a little more info. What type of system? Etc.
If your closed, it will stop to listen on the identified ID's but still compares the scanned/found ID to find out if you have it listed or not.
Closed justs lets you hear what you want, not necessarily for faster scanning.
If your closed, it will stop to listen on the identified ID's but still compares the scanned/found ID to find out if you have it listed or not.
Closed justs lets you hear what you want, not necessarily for faster scanning.
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If you enter all 20 (or whatever completes the site) you have the greatest possibility to hear the few talkgroups you want ot hear. You only program the TG's you want to listen to, close the bank and voila.
I just got broke in on Moto systems myself as around hear is all EDACS and in a couple of days heading to a Moto area. Programmed in about 3 sites for the wide area system + plus a boat load of TG's, looking forward to listening in a big city. I'll be there a week in a hospital so I'll have lot's of time to experiment.
I just got broke in on Moto systems myself as around hear is all EDACS and in a couple of days heading to a Moto area. Programmed in about 3 sites for the wide area system + plus a boat load of TG's, looking forward to listening in a big city. I'll be there a week in a hospital so I'll have lot's of time to experiment.
Let's put it this way: the scanner will only use one control channel at a time. So if the system rotates through four each day or uses one all the time, it doesn't matter. The scanner does not actually "scan" through trunk ID's. It watches the data from the control channel and compares each active talkgroup's ID number with what you have programmed in memory. Having one talkgroup programmed in or having 100 will have no effect on scanning speed. The scanner simply compares what goes over the control channel to what's in memory. The scanner will pick up the transmission on one of your programmed talkgroups instantly as long as the signal is good enough for it to do so. Now what will slow down scanning speed is if you have conventional frequencies in the same bank. The scanner will then alternate between checking the control channel and scanning the conventional frequencies. The more conventional frequencies you have in the bank, the longer it will take to scan through them. The above is pretty much true for GRE made scanners like you pro-95. I own both GRE and Uniden scanners and I find the Unidens to be a bit slower when it comes to mixing trunked and conventional in the same bank. However, they do very well when scanning only a trunked with no conventional mixed in.
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