BCD436/536HP Favorite List structures?

[tomas21]

What are some of the favorite list design/structures that you all are using for the BCD436/536HP?

Coming from a 996p2 and now seeing the new Favorite/System/Dept for the first time opens up a new world to organizing my mega complex lists in the 996p2.

Curious how you all are setting up your favorites structure in Sentinel.

Pls share your list structures and or screenshots on the method to your madness would be appreciated for ideas..

 

[ofd8001]

There are so many ways of configuring a Favorites List. You'll probably never be completely satisfied, always making little tweaks here and there.

That said, I look at a Favorites List as a filing cabinet. (The scanner itself is a room that has many filing cabinets/Favorites Lists).

Then, each drawer of the filing cabinet would be a System. In this example, however, you can have many drawers rather than the typical four.

In each drawer, you would have file folders, those being the Departments.

Then in those file folders you have individual pieces of paper, or channels.

One method many folks use, if Quick Keys are involved, is to have the given Quick Key as part of the name, such as "F00-Jefferson County", "S01-Kentucky State Police", "D04-KSP Post 4".

A piece of advice: if you scan trunked systems, you should avoid duplicating them in separate Favorites Lists. Such as FL1 Police and FL2 Fire. What happens is that you are on 1 listening for police, and fire is talking. Since fire isn't in the list, they are ignore. Then the scanner jumps to 2 listening for fire, but they are quiet with the police being active. A lot of conversations are missed that way.

 

[tomas21]

So a trunked system should be confined to one favorite based on the scenario above ?

 

[ofd8001]

Not necessarily, as long as you are aware of the pitfalls of scanning the same system's sites in multiple Favorites Lists. The pitfall being potentially missing out on some traffic.

 

[nessnet]

If you use GPS/location control, my suggestion would be by geography.