Thanks Mark I get tired of saying it, plus you did it more fluently.
IMHO, that is one of the major limitations with these (and I have a 996p2 and a 325, plus several older versions) I use one to monitor a few dozen low volume EMS, and 3 high volume, and no UID.
I'm in a small, rural area and have 500+UID just with Sheriff and County Fire, no local PD (they have no logic anyway).
If you create the system twice in the radio (same frequencies in each) and then pick half the talkgroups and put them in one and the others in the other, you can effectively scan everything with a new limitation of 1000 between the two.
I have a substantial system and a ton of radio id's that I split into 3 systems.
Put the police in one, fire in the second, and public works, parks, and the balance into the third.
I put each system on a different quick key, so I can quickly reduce what I am scanning on that system to the targeted stuff, such as a police chase or a major fire without having to listen to the rest of the stuff.
It is sort of like using quick keys for departments but I do it at the system level so I can include several hundred key radio id's with the categorized channels.
When scanning all 3 "systems" it takes an extra second as it goes from sub system to subsystem and locks the control channel, but I find it to be a very good workaround, that allows me more talkgroups and radio id's as well as a department-like control over received traffic.
Mark
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