Brother everybody gave you good ideas and it seems you just want to argue.Hate to say it but might want to find a new hobby or design something with your IT experience that helps you with what you want to do.
I'm not argueing about anything. You folks are arguing, or should I say defending Uniden for the only reason I can come up with, which is you must work for them. Otherwise, why would you not want a new feature in a scanner? Things that make you say hmmmmm.
I'm not looking for "ideas". I'm looking for a very specific feature. Do I need to repeat the feature again? A SIMPLE TEXT SEARCH THAT SEARCHES THE TAGS OF ALL THAT IS PROGRAMMED INTO THE SCANNER. I would like that feature added to my current scanner, a BCD396xt, OR because apparently that is an outdated model which is fine, put into a NEW scanner model that is being developed. Wow, what a crime, I should be locked up for this request!!
So far we are almost 60 posts into this thread, and the only strong proponent of your search function is you.
You sure about that? About 40 of those posts are mine. The other 20 are Uniden employee's, and other folks who didn't quite understand the request properly.
Interestingly, the GRE PSR-500 had the ability to do a FIND on a channel/talkgroup label/alpha tag.... but as far as I know the PSR-500/600 may have been the only radio (that I know of) that offered that. I liked that feature but didn't use it as much as it might seem.
Perhaps it's a suggestion that can get some attention.... old is new again.
Maybe even better - a FIND option that displays a list of matches the user can then scroll to and SElect to monitor.... hmmmmm..
Yup - it's interesting how features come and go but in most cases, I'm sure the feature set(s) are based on user demand... I can only assume the assumption is that there isn't high demand for this feature... but we can help move it up on the list!
I'm not the only one asking for this simple feature. I would bet you there are many who would LOVE this feature. The lack of a simple text search on these scanners is likely one of the main reasons most of them end up collecting dust in a closet.
It's unlikely that's enough pressure to convince the scanner makers they should act on your suggestion. If you want to see how popular your idea is with the scanning masses you should start a new thread as a Poll to see what the actual level of interest is. If there is enough positive response it could potentially move the needle on your idea. Personally I'd much rather they devote their energy to addressing actual problems, like P25 simulcast distortion. It doesn't much matter that you can find your DIVE channel easily if your reception of it is unintelligible.
That's a great idea. Regarding not wanting them to "devoting energy to it", adding a text search would not take up resources or a great deal of time to do. It's about 10 lines of code. I for one, and any other programmer could write the code for it on just about any processor while sleeping. It a VERY simple thing to do. That is why I'm perplexed about why it doesn't exist already.