TRX-2: Assigning Scan Sets as Macros

[KS9X]

I've had my TRX-2 since right before COVID and it has been exclusively for mobile use. Recently I got a Uniden SDS-200 for the house and it brought something to my attention that I had missed previously: Is there a way to assign Scan Sets to the keypad on the TRX-2 so I can switch them on the fly?

I don't mean the official way of Menu -> scroll to Scan Sets -> scroll to appropriate Scan Set. I mean I want to do e.g. "Fn + 1" for Scan Set 1, "Fn + 2" for Scan Set 2, etc. As a use-case: If I'm crossing over from one county to the next but I'm still in the same State Police district, the logical thing would be a Scan Set for County(1) + State, and another one for County(2) + State. I don't want overloaded Scan Lists with multiple frequencies duplicated across lists (which defeats the purpose of Scan Sets entirely), and there's no other way to safely switch from one to the next without pulling over. I also would prefer not to need an ad-hoc programming session every time I leave the house.

I couldn't find anything in the Mark's Easier-To-Read page or the actual manual for this.

 

[tvengr]

As far as I know, it can only be done in the menu. This sounds like a question for Whistler Support.

 

[Ubbe]

I don't want overloaded Scan Lists with multiple frequencies duplicated across lists (which defeats the purpose of Scan Sets entirely),

TRX uses a smart system that whenever you load a scan list it starts to compare it to your other activated lists and if the same frequency are found in different lists it saves that information, that's why loading a list takes so long, and a compiled list with frequencies are used to do scanning. A frequency that exists in several places are only scanned once during a scan cycle.

When that frequency detects a carrier and then decode a subtone or digital format it checks if that matches any of the saved information for that frequency.

Uniden uses the standard way of scan:
Freq 1 + CTCSS 97.4Hz (check if match and in that case fetch additional data from SD card)
scan to next channel
Freq1 + CTCSS 91.5Hz (check if match)
scan to next channel
Freq 1 + DMR (check if match and in that case fetch additional data from SD card)
scan to next channel
Freq2

TRX uses:
Freq1 (check if match to 91.5Hz or 97.4Hz or DMR and if match fetch additional data from SD card)
scan to next channel
Freq2

Using Unidens standard method you can easily configure yourself in any way you like, in what order you would like to scan channels. With a TRX you are locked to what Whistler force on you and have no way of doing anything special if you need to do anything out of the ordinary.
Both scanners have their negative and positive points and they are so different to each other that you really need to evaluate both of them.

/Ubbe