Joe_Blough
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- Joined
- May 8, 2019
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Noobie Disclaimer. My first and only scanner was a Regency M400 I bought back in the 1980s. Stumbled across SDR a few months ago and it rekindled my interest in scanning.
I am going to get a Uniden SDS200 in a few months so have been watching You Tube videos, reading and searching these forums, reading the Easier to Read Sentinel 436/536HP manual, and working with the Sentinel program to learn it and get my favorites lists and profile set up before I get the SDS200.
My county uses a P25 system for Police, Fire, School Security, Animal Control, EMS, buses, etc. I have created a Favorites List for this system and appended to my favorites list the departments I am interested in such as Police and Fire for the city, county, and a couple neighboring cities.
This system has 15 sites each with a different set of between 4 and 12 frequencies. I assume each site is associated with the communication for a particular area and/or department and that Sentinel appends all the sites into your favorites list so no matter what departments you have in your FL the scanner will have the correct frequencies.
However, one of these sites is labeled as Simulcast and has 20 frequencies in it. So, in the interest of saving time scanning a bunch of different sites and frequencies which may be for departments or areas I don't have in my FL, could I remove all these other sites and leave just the Simulcast site in my FL and be good to go? I have listened to this Simulcast site using a USB dongle and Unitrunker and it comes in strong with health of 100.
I am going to get a Uniden SDS200 in a few months so have been watching You Tube videos, reading and searching these forums, reading the Easier to Read Sentinel 436/536HP manual, and working with the Sentinel program to learn it and get my favorites lists and profile set up before I get the SDS200.
My county uses a P25 system for Police, Fire, School Security, Animal Control, EMS, buses, etc. I have created a Favorites List for this system and appended to my favorites list the departments I am interested in such as Police and Fire for the city, county, and a couple neighboring cities.
This system has 15 sites each with a different set of between 4 and 12 frequencies. I assume each site is associated with the communication for a particular area and/or department and that Sentinel appends all the sites into your favorites list so no matter what departments you have in your FL the scanner will have the correct frequencies.
However, one of these sites is labeled as Simulcast and has 20 frequencies in it. So, in the interest of saving time scanning a bunch of different sites and frequencies which may be for departments or areas I don't have in my FL, could I remove all these other sites and leave just the Simulcast site in my FL and be good to go? I have listened to this Simulcast site using a USB dongle and Unitrunker and it comes in strong with health of 100.