control channel

[ynothope]

In Austin the control channels are 866.125, 866.7125.....

Talk groups are 271, 273...........

Say in bank one, do I list one control channel repeated five times.
866.333 TAlk Id 271
866.333 Talk id 273.
follow by the talk group I am interesting in?
Can someone help me with this. Tahnks

 

[W4KRR]

You only need to enter the control channel once per bank. It won't help anything to enter it more than once.

 

[paul34]

I think I see the confusion. Trunking scanners have two types of channels:

1) Frequency channels (where you store conventional frequencies as well as the frequencies used by trunked systems).

2) Talk Group Channels (where you store the talk groups associated with the frequency channels).

So, you enter each trunked system frequency channel once in the bank, then enter each talk group ID of interest for that trunk system in the Talk Group Channels for that bank.

 

[ynothope]

So, I want to listen to talk group 273, 275, 276 ....
Do I program the one control channel follow by the by the talk group Id?

Example: 866.7185, APD CENTRAL , and list 1-1 273
APD SOUTH , list 1-2 275
APD NORTH , list 1-2 276.\

Is this correct , thanks for you'll help.

 

[paul34]

That looks right...well, you meant that last one to be in list 1-3, but other than that.

 

[ynothope]

Okay Paul, thanks a lot for your time and help.

Marvin.

 

[lzqwhr]

Another question regarding control channel, I just got a Pro-95, when I use the search feature to scan the pre-progammed 800 channels it will stop on a few of the cntrl channels (sounds like a diesel engine running) until I hit the up or down button to skip then it cycles back to them and sits that channel till I bump it again, yet when I scan my local bank it doesnt sit on the contrl channel. If I lock out those in the preset 'search' mode will I still receive calls ?
Thanks

 

[crayon]

when I use the search feature to scan the pre-progammed 800 channels it will stop on a few of the cntrl channels

When scanning preset's the radio does not know how to trunk any control channel it finds.

 

[fourwd1]

when I use the search feature to scan the pre-progammed 800 channels it will stop on a few of the cntrl channels

When scanning preset's the radio does not know how to trunk any control channel it finds.

Because it is done in the Conventional mode, not Trunking mode.
Therefore it doesn't know it is a control channel, it's just a frequency with a signal on it, so it stops.

 

[lzqwhr]

So in this case it would be ok to lock out those channels ?

 

[fourwd1]

Yes, as long as it's not a control channel frequency for a trunked system you monitor in one of your normal banks.

 

[paul34]

Even then it would be OK. In search mode, you are only locking out the frequency during searches. If you store the frequency in a channel, it will still be scanned in scanning mode even though you've locked it out of search mode.