246T newbie question

[medic7795]

Hi all;

I have gotten one of the new 246T scanners, and I love it. The question has nothing to do with a limitation on the scanner, the problem is in my brain.... As most of them are....

I have programmed in an EDACS system, no problems with that.... I though I knew what I was doing. My question is this: How do I program in a Motorola Type II SmartZone system? There are two systems that I want to monitor doing this... (For interest's sake, they are the Toronto Ontario (Canada) Public Safety System, and the Ontario Government Fleetnet system)

I am using the ARC246 software, which is one heck of an improvement over the Uniden software....

I appreciate any support you guys can give this green amateur twit...

 

[UPMan]

I'm assuming that you can enter a single-site Motorola system (actually is easier than EDACS) and so your question must be "Should I enter all frequencies in one system or enter each site as its own system?"

There are three schools of thought (at least) on programming multi-site systems in the BC246T:

School A) Enter each site as a separate system and duplicate the TGID's of interest in each site.

This method gives you the most control over hearing traffic when you are simultaneously in range of multiple sites, but uses more memory.

School B) Enter all of the site control channels in one system and enter the TGID's once.

This method uses the least memory, but the scanner will always stop on the first (not necessarily the best) control channel it can decode.

School C) Actually this is a hybrid of A and B. Create multiple systems. In each system enter the control channels only for sites that cannot be received at the same time (i.e. non-adjascent sites).

This method gives you some control over which site(s) to monitor and uses less memory than A. However, you need to know more about the geographic arrangement of the sites to effectively use this method.