Thank you. It was the service type check boxes in the Sentinal software. You’d think they’d be checked by default. Thanks again.
No problem. It appears since you programmed the scanner manually, and forgot to assign a “Service Type” to each entry you caused the radio to produce the dreaded “Nothing to Scan” message. And although Uniden covers that particular message in the manual, they might have added more to the “Nothing to Scan” message that appears in the display. My guess is because of the many different reasons listed that will produce the same message in the display, they didn’t include which reason was causing the issue without taking up more of the scanner’s resources? Adding to “Nothing to Scan” (or instead of) “Set Service Type” (or one of the other listed reasons) would put us on the road to correcting the omission, but at what cost? Would we loose another function in the process? So, instead, in the manual they listed what to look for when we get that message. Uniden probably knew most would select the automated process… where taking from the database an agency’s data and appending it to a FL would include all of the parameters necessary to keep us from getting the “Nothing to Scan” message. Most end users want a product that is ready to go right-out-of-the-box. They can’t be bothered with manually programming all the many settings a trunked system needs to see set correctly. That was a big problem as the complexity of setting a scanner up manually would cause a lot of errors such as omitted settings or just plain mistakes we make when we “fat-finger the keypad. Humans aren’t perfect. We make mistakes. The overall concern was that scanner sales would plummet due to the complexity now associated with them. So, enter Radio Reference with the ability to choose from their databank the complete parameters for each agency, edit out what you don’t want and append it to a FL. The need to worry about what mode, PL, digital or analogue, numerous frequencies, etc. are gone, now provided for us. It’s a sophisticated “Copy and Paste” way around the pitfalls that go with manually programming.
