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I'm quoting Lou from another thread - didn't want to hijack that one..
Lou - I'm sure that all the HP1 owners would thoroughly agree with this entire statement, especially the part I put in bold.. The "weakest link" (as I see it) in the new scanner programming paradigm as presented by the HP1 and the GRE-800 is that there are no decent database change reports available. If I create a number of Favorites from the HP1 database, they're no longer accurate as soon as the next week's database download is finished, if there are any changes in that particular area. Trying to determine what has changed so I can edit the Favorite then becomes an issue of trying to compare the current DB info with the Favorites on a line by line basis. If a RR report could be generated, for instance by System, that showed adds, deletes, changes within a date range, with the actual data that has changed being shown, it'd be a big step forward. Obviously the ultimate in the HP1 world would for Favorites to be actual DB objects that inherit changes from the parent DB - but that's a Uniden issue.....
Any thoughts on this?
Well to be honest, there is no ongoing expense necessary. Those folks who think that are the folks that just like to "churn" the stuff in their scanners on a continuing basis. Whereas I can't agree more that software makes programming the scanners a lot easier, the download is just a convenience. Even if you used if for an initial download, the maintenance of your particular setup is better done without downloading. When you download, you get whatever is in the DB at the moment. This means you lose any alpha tags that you have customized or channels that you may have added that are not in the DB. This depends on what software and radio you have, but generally downloading is good for when you need to set something new up, but not so much after that.
Lou - I'm sure that all the HP1 owners would thoroughly agree with this entire statement, especially the part I put in bold.. The "weakest link" (as I see it) in the new scanner programming paradigm as presented by the HP1 and the GRE-800 is that there are no decent database change reports available. If I create a number of Favorites from the HP1 database, they're no longer accurate as soon as the next week's database download is finished, if there are any changes in that particular area. Trying to determine what has changed so I can edit the Favorite then becomes an issue of trying to compare the current DB info with the Favorites on a line by line basis. If a RR report could be generated, for instance by System, that showed adds, deletes, changes within a date range, with the actual data that has changed being shown, it'd be a big step forward. Obviously the ultimate in the HP1 world would for Favorites to be actual DB objects that inherit changes from the parent DB - but that's a Uniden issue.....
Any thoughts on this?