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Same with railroads, the big railroads are broken out by subdivisions. There are many examples of this.
Honestly the bottom line is this: if your relying on someone else to program your radio, it will never completely meet the needs specific to your location and (most importantly) your own listening preferences.
You're dead on target.
Plus, whether you (the OP) pays someone for programming, or someone with spare time does it free gratis, what are you going to do when something changes? County, city, and state agencies have changes quite often. Businesses come and go, get bought, change systems or locations. While everything does not change 'overnight', changes can and do occur regularly. Some may not affect what you want to hear, but others will. Are you going to continue to pay someone to re-do the programming on a regular basis? If someone created a couple of Favorites for you, at no charge, they're not likely to want to continue doing updates at no charge on a regular basis.
Hi can someone please help me that knows how to use the software good for the sds100 and put these 2 sites in 2 different favorites lists for me please?
More Fast Food Frequencies and
Allegheny County Scanning Page - PGHscanner.com . I would be willing to pay if someone can make me 2 favorites lists out of these. Thank you
The 'fast food' link you provided is for the Long Island area, and is dated for May of 1996. A few of those frequencies
might still be used in your area, but not necessarily by the same company. Also, almost without exception, all of those are used simplex, not through a repeater. Reception would be limited to probably a few blocks from the restaurant, almost certainly not much over a mile.
For the Allegheny
page, just spot checking a handful of the frequencies, they don't match what is in the current
database page for Allegheny County. On the page you linked, frequencies 453.1375 and 453.2375 are not listed. They are on a license for Allegheny County, issued in 2020, and updated (in the RR database in the past few days, to indicate that encryption is being used.
A number of the frequencies on the page for various businesses are also simplex, not repeaters. As with the fast food frequencies, simplex transmissions have a very limited range. Also, some are DMR, some NXDN. Do you have those upgrades?
For Allegheny County as a whole, you can easily create a Favorites list of all the conventional channels by going into the main database in Sentinel, opening the US set, then drill down to Pennsylvania, and then Allegheny County. Highlight the ones you want, and <right><click> to append them to an existing, or new, Favorites list.
The trunked systems on the RadioReference database page for your county are not correctly identified on your Allegheny County page link. U.S. Steel, for example, is listed in RR as an LTR trunked system, but the frequencies are on your referenced page as if they are conventional. That's not going to work correctly. Triconnex is another system that is on your list, with frequencies listed, but to function correctly, those must be entered into a trunked system, not programmed conventionally.
Finally, with the mass of frequencies you are asking to be programmed, even if re-figured & done correctly, you're going to miss more than you hear, as it will take quite some time for your scanner to wade through all of the data, then start scanning a second time.
