ProScan: BCD536hp on ProScan

[OneThirtyEight]

I'm new to this P25 programming.
But I have a BCD536HP scanner using Proscan to program the scanner and Importing from Radio Reference to Proscan. However I am trying to Program Anderson County TN which is apparently Conventional P25.
If I program the Conventional Frequencies I hear Nothing. If I go to bottom of Proscan screen on the import from Radio Reference.
Change it to TACN and import the TN Anderson County to Scanner there are No frequencies just TGiD's. And scanner says Nothing to Scan
What am I doing wrong?

 

[RMason]

there are No frequencies just TGiD's. And scanner says Nothing to Scan

Did you select the sites when you imported from TACN in the RR database? There are 2 sites shown in the db:

2 (2)	017 (11)	Windrock Mountain	Anderson, TN	769.35625c	769.78125	770.20625	770.84375	771.08125c	771.50625	772.00625
				772.48125	772.90625	773.13125	774.69375
2 (2)	061 (3D)	Oak Ridge	Anderson, TN	770.61875c	771.23125	771.68125	772.25625	772.70625	773.23125

You will need to select the desired sites in addition to the TGIDs. See below example:

 

[OneThirtyEight]

Yeah I did
I'm trying to get Anderson County though
Oak Ridge is in Anderson County
But Clinton TN actually has Anderson County Sheriff EMS Fire , Etc
Scroll on down the list
Past the the W's
It will go to one's that start with GA
Then you will see TN- Anderson County
But there are No Frequencies just tgid
The only way it has frequencies is Conventional

 

[doctordialtone]

I'm trying to get Anderson County though

You also need to make sure that Service Types are set to download AND monitor, or you won't hear the associated services.

 

[RMason]

Yeah I did
I'm trying to get Anderson County though
Oak Ridge is in Anderson County
But Clinton TN actually has Anderson County Sheriff EMS Fire , Etc
Scroll on down the list
Past the the W's
It will go to one's that start with GA
Then you will see TN- Anderson County
But there are No Frequencies just tgid
The only way it has frequencies is Conventional

What site(s) did you select when you downloaded from the RR db? The sites are at the top of the list in Proscan. The TGIDs are at the bottom. You need to program both sites and TGIDs for P25 trunked systems. The sites contain the frequencies.

You will want to select the site(s) that are closest to you. I would start with selecting both the Oak Ridge and Windrock Mountain sites. It looks like the Windrock site has broader coverage.

 

[hiegtx]

Yeah I did
I'm trying to get Anderson County though
Oak Ridge is in Anderson County
But Clinton TN actually has Anderson County Sheriff EMS Fire , Etc
Scroll on down the list
Past the the W's
It will go to one's that start with GA
Then you will see TN- Anderson County
But there are No Frequencies just tgid
The only way it has frequencies is Conventional

I think you do not understand how the system looks when doing an 'import' in ProScan.

When you select a system to import, and select the 'get data' for the system, the name of the system appears at the top of the window.

Directly underneath that, you'll see all of the sites on the system. Windrock Mountain and Oak Ridge are listed farther down in the list of sites.

and

Look at the left side of that listing of the sites. All of them are listed under the system itself. You can see that they are all part of the system. You can use either the "Uncheck All' or "Uncheck All Sites" to clear all of the sites. then go back & seelct the checkbox by the two sites you do want.

If you scroll farther down, past the listings of the sites, you'll see the talkgroups for various agencies. as well as counties (and towns). Anderson is in that group.

What, I think, is confusing you is that when you select the Anderson County talkgroups, you think that selecting the talkgroups will also grab the sites & their frequencies, That's not correct. To import the system correctly, you select the sites you want in the upper part of the listing, then you scroll down to the collection of talkgroups and select your county (Anderson). If you have the two sites selected, and also the talkgroups, then ProScan will correctly import the system with both talkgroups and the sites selected. Just make sure, before you select "import" that you have the sites as well as the talkgroup IDs that you want selected. It will look like this in the Favorites list editor in ProScan.

 

[OneThirtyEight]

I think you do not understand how the system looks when doing an 'import' in ProScan.

When you select a system to import, and select the 'get data' for the system, the name of the system appears at the top of the window.
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Directly underneath that, you'll see all of the sites on the system. Windrock Mountain and Oak Ridge are listed farther down in the list of sites.
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and
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Look at the left side of that listing of the sites. All of them are listed under the system itself. You can see that they are all part of the system. You can use either the "Uncheck All' or "Uncheck All Sites" to clear all of the sites. then go back & seelct the checkbox by the two sites you do want.

If you scroll farther down, past the listings of the sites, you'll see the talkgroups for various agencies. as well as counties (and towns). Anderson is in that group.
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What, I think, is confusing you is that when you select the Anderson County talkgroups, you think that selecting the talkgroups will also grab the sites & their frequencies, That's not correct. To import the system correctly, you select the sites you want in the upper part of the listing, then you scroll down to the collection of talkgroups and select your county (Anderson). If you have the two sites selected, and also the talkgroups, then ProScan will correctly import the system with both talkgroups and the sites selected. Just make sure, before you select "import" that you have the sites as well as the talkgroup IDs that you want selected. It will look like this in the Favorites list editor in ProScan.

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Thank you so much
I will try this