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[Mod Edit: This quote is from the original post in the Scanning Forum so that this topic makes sense from the start after moving to the CT Forum.]

MarkEagleUSA said:

I have the Connecticut State Police setup in my 396. This results in 15 Systems that use the same identical Group of 76 TGID's. That's 1140 Channel entries which seems redundant, not to mention causes reading/writing the scanner to take much longer.

Would it be possible (in a future firmware) to create "virtual" Groups (much like Windows shortcuts) that could be linked to from Systems? That way, you'd only need to create a Group once, but be able to use it in multiple systems.

I imagine if this worked for Groups, it could probably be done for Channels as well.

As a benefit to this approach, there would be more overall memory available to the user.

I understand there may be technical limitations to this, but I'm curious if it's something that could be done.
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I realize that CT is a smaller state, but still I can't imagine that you can hear all sites from any location. Could you not take a look at it geograpically and reduce the number of systsems so that you only listen to the sites that you can possible hear at one time. I think with a little examination, you could probably reduce that number to 3 or 4 sytems and not lose anything by combing sites into one system. For example, and this is just by looking at the frequencies used, Fairfield County (South) and Windham County can obviously be in the same system, they use the exact same frequencies so they can't be close enough to each other or they would interfer.

This does not alter the need for "virtual" talk groups, that is a great idea, but in the meantime, this might cause you less eye strain. :lol: