ErikVanR
Member
Ok... I am a skilled user (fire dept) of a Motorola digital Smartzone UHF T-band trunked system: XTS5000 portables, XTL5000 mobiles, etc. For the past 12 years, I've been using GRE/RS PRO96/2096 scanners to monitor my system when off-duty. I program the CC primary/secondary freqs and custom tables in the bank (bank 0, in this case). Then, I program all the TG IDs in the trunking subgroups (0 thru 4) for that bank. When I scan the system, I use the 50 channel subgroups to organize the services that I listen to (subgroup 0 = north & central fire TGs, subgroup 1 = south & west fire depts, subgroup 2 = law depts, subgroup 3 = law & local govt, subgroup 4 = medical TGs). I can lockout/unlock the subgroups and the individual TG IDs within to determine the exact TGs I monitor.
So... How do I transpose this to programming the BCD325P2? Should I make a 'system' for fire, a system for law, a system for local govt/medical, and then make groups within those systems such as: Fire System: North Fire Group, Central Fire Group, South Fire Group, West Fire Group. Then: Law System: BigCity PD Group, LittleCity PD Group, Sheriff Group. And: Local Govt System: Medical Group, Public Works Group?
Or should I make one 'System', divide the Fire into a 'Site', and then the depts into 'Groups', Law into a 'Site', and the depts into 'Groups', Local Govt into a 'Site', and the individual sevices into groups? To a Motorola system user, 'Site' means a fixed location repeater site (or two close sites) in the trunked system. Is that what Uniden sees 'Site' as, too?
The system uses two main zones: East simulcast (a CC and 10 voice channels) and West simulcast (a CC and 6 voice channels). Three IntelliRepeaters (each with a CC and 4-5 voice channels) cover the fringe areas. Normally, with the PRO96, I scan the CC freq pool and unlock the one with the strongest signal, and then trunk scan. If I travel to an outlying area, I'll scan the freq pool again and see if I need to add one of the freqs as another CC.
So... How do I transpose this to programming the BCD325P2? Should I make a 'system' for fire, a system for law, a system for local govt/medical, and then make groups within those systems such as: Fire System: North Fire Group, Central Fire Group, South Fire Group, West Fire Group. Then: Law System: BigCity PD Group, LittleCity PD Group, Sheriff Group. And: Local Govt System: Medical Group, Public Works Group?
Or should I make one 'System', divide the Fire into a 'Site', and then the depts into 'Groups', Law into a 'Site', and the depts into 'Groups', Local Govt into a 'Site', and the individual sevices into groups? To a Motorola system user, 'Site' means a fixed location repeater site (or two close sites) in the trunked system. Is that what Uniden sees 'Site' as, too?
The system uses two main zones: East simulcast (a CC and 10 voice channels) and West simulcast (a CC and 6 voice channels). Three IntelliRepeaters (each with a CC and 4-5 voice channels) cover the fringe areas. Normally, with the PRO96, I scan the CC freq pool and unlock the one with the strongest signal, and then trunk scan. If I travel to an outlying area, I'll scan the freq pool again and see if I need to add one of the freqs as another CC.