Thanks Dave, but I guess that is what my argument is, that it is not a "correctly configured" system. As I said, Wilmington is a "stand alone system" and although it has been "affiliated" with the state system, it still maintains its own control channel and frequencies (it does not pool/share control channels/frequencies from the state-wide system). As the work around you suggest, and that I have been using confirms, when you have only the Wilmington site (which I believe only has the Wilmington control chan/freq) you can hear Wilmington with no problems, but cannot hear anything else on the state system, in other words you are only listening to the "separate" Wilmington system. I also will try to confirm in the next couple of days, but if I remember correctly, state/county radios, even when in the city, do not affiliate to the city site unless on a city talk group and likewise, city radios do not affiliate over to a state tower when out of the city unless they are on a state/county tg. Where this has been the biggest proplem is when city units were working at hoopes reservoir and cannot talk on the city talk groups (Hoopes is city property so the city takes lead on any events that happen there) So that is why I would respectfully suggest that the Wilmington system is not "correctly configured" as it currently is under the Delaware public safety system.
Lastly, if I remember correctly, at first, the Wilmington system was a separate system in the DB and everything, both state/county and Wilmington, worked fine. Then someone combined Wilmington into the state system and that is when the problems began. As I said, I do not feel I should have to exclude sites to be able to listen to Wilmington which at the same time will not allow me to listen to state/county at the same time, and I also do not feel as though I should have to create favorites to be able to scan both state/county and Wilmington at the same time (ok so I admit I am lazy).
Again Dave, I appreciate all you and the other admin do for the DB, but this is a simple fix to return it to how it was before. Could you please run it up the flag pole and see what happens? If those who tell you it is correctly configured need more information, please let me know and I will see if I can help. As you said, I am beyond frustrated and have held off buying additional HP-1's till this issue is worked out.
