Asterisk in Sentinel

[samcken]

Finally updating my sds200, I downloaded and started going through the database to update favorites. Looking to add DEHMS for the first time, I noticed that many of the talk groups have an asterisk in the middle of their channel name. Any special meaning to this? Is it just a place holder for some longer description that won't fit otherwise? Anybody know?

 

[doctordialtone]

Finally updating my sds200, I downloaded and started going through the database to update favorites. Looking to add DEHMS for the first time, I noticed that many of the talk groups have an asterisk in the middle of their channel name. Any special meaning to this? Is it just a place holder for some longer description that won't fit otherwise? Anybody know?

see below

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

It looks to me that the admin who filled in the descriptions in the database filled in two dashes "--" between "ESF..." and the user so I'm guessing Sentinel converts two dashes into an astrisk. If you take note, Talkgroup 5404 (not pictured in DB screenshot to left, 3rd from bottom in right screenshot) only has one dash and is transcribed by Sentinel properly...

 

[samcken]

Suspected it was an entry type issue, and nothing to do with the more important listening side! Now to see if I actually hear something there!

 

[W1KNE]

It looks to me that the admin who filled in the descriptions in the database filled in two dashes "--" between "ESF..."

Actually it was a unicode character that looks like a dash ("–"). I have gone through and replaced all those with a standard dash. ("-")
( – vs - ). A double dash will appear as a double dash ("--")