MikeyB said:
I'm confused following this post. I think what Halfpint is saying is that in he uses one of the banks of channels per district, not one of the banks of talkgroups within each bank of channels. That way, you just have to press one button to switch districts, rather than getting into the talkgroup menu. I personally on my Pro95 have three banks of channels set up for Denver - one for PD, one for Fire and one for EMS. I also have the PW systems in a bank, but I never listen to it.
Yep!
Why bother with `playing' with the TG *Sub Banks* when it's *a lot* easier to just change *Banks*? {GRIN!} It *is* a PRO-92 not a PRO-93 or PRO-95 everything of *any* `importance?' fits easily into a 100 entry *Sub Bank*.
As for the PW system... On `snow days' it can come in *quite* handy and the last time SWMBO and the children went to the Zoo it also `paid off'. (They caught the `chatter' about one of the `exhibits' they had gone down there to see *finally* being opened almost a full half hour before the crowds caught on that it was open and got a `personalized tour' because they and only a couple other people were the only ones there at the time. [SWMBO told me that when they left people were qued up 4 to 5 deep waiting to `get in' and she `thanked her lucky stars' she'd `caved' and had taken the scanner with her.])
Now D.I.A. is another story... I basically don't/won't go there. About the *only* way I'll probably *ever* go there is *if*, for whatever strange reason, either my body or ashes *have* be `shipped' that way. (It's not only that I feel that *both* D.I.A. and the so-called `security checks' that the TSA *subjects* travelers to are absurd but that air travel in general has become a farce. I've seen cattle headed off to slaughter treated better. [The last time I traveled by air was when my father died back in '85 and I had to both get down to Sun City to handle matters and then had to drive his car, and a U-Haul trailer, filled filled with assorted stuff that I didn't want banging around in the back of some `drayage' truck. (Stuff like a dozen oil paintings my father had done, a `coffee table' that he'd built and had been the subject of an article in both `Good Houskeeping' and `Better Homes and Gardens' back when both mags actually were something, and a lot of other assorted `personal belongings' that one tends to want to take with you and keep *and* doesn't want strangers pawing and going through. {WAN GRIN!}) Strangely enough I *still* have that car! (Though... The first person who shows up with $1K, a new side terminal battery, a new set of sparkplug wires {V8}, and a `jerrycan' of gas can become the proud owner of an '80 Olds Cutlass Supreme Brougham w/ a slightly `warmed' 306 CID V8 [I installed a `Mile-a-More' camshaft when the original one developed a few flat lobes. The cam gives it a bit more `punch' up around `highway cruising' speeds which also meant that as long as one `kept their foot out of it' it was able to get over 20mpg overall not just highway. (I think I actually still have the records to prove it, too! {VB GRIN!}) Which isn't too bad for an '80 that size, especially an Olds / `Tuna barge'!] and auto tranny. {GRIN!} It'd make for one less vehicle we'd have to end up moving. {CHORTLE!})])
Oh, well... Just an `Olde Fart's' 2¢ worth. {GRIN!}
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