When i am trying to use the Sentinel i can get the favorites but when 1 due the systems. It will not let me import only the sites that i want, It in stead it brings the whole data base to the site that i am trying to listen to. like i only want just 2 site to listen to,
not the whole entire sites in the data base so like it says system 1 favorite 1 i only want 3 sites in favorite but it keeps putting more the those 3 sites in system 1 what am i doing wrong.
You're not doing anything "wrong".
When you append a trunked system from the main database, you can select the Departments that you want on a given trunked system, but you cannot, similarly, specify only certain sites. The append process will bring over the specified Departments, whether it is one, a dozen, or some other number. But since Sentinel does not natively know which sites carry the department & talkgroups you are selecting, it appends all of the sites on the system. No way around that.
But, you can remove the extra sites easily in either the Favorites list editor, or on the main screen of Sentinel. On the main screen, click on the system in the left side window. In the right side, you will see the departments you chose, along all of the sites. The sites will be in alphabetical order. If you already know, specifically, which sites you need, and want to remove those you don't, then hold down the control key & select each site to be removed (they'll be highlighted after selection). Holding down the control key, you can keep selecting sites until you have all, or most of, the ones to be removed selected. Now, hit the Delete key. Sentinel will ask for confirmation that you want to delete them; say OK and it will remove them. You can also ,
right-click on a selected site. You'll get a pop-up menu; one of the choices will be
Remove from Favorites List. (Or, just use Delete key as already noted.) Sentinel will ask you to confirm before removing them. If you have a consecutive string of sites to delete, hold down the Shift key then click on the first, and last, site in the list to select a group of them, then delete as noted above. You can, of course, deal with the site removals in the Favorites list editor as well. In a large state, or regionwide, system, there may well be sites that you are not familiar with. Some of them are recognizable, since they are named for a city or county. But others may be named after some local landmark or geographic feature, such as a hill or mountain. Some are named with just the name of the road they are on, which may not be recognizable to you. To help sort them out, go to the database page for the system. In the site listings for the system, click on the
County column header to re-sort by the name of the county each site is in. That can help if you have some that you don't recognize, and want to verify it's county before you remove it.
Note that after you whittle the sites down to size, you can go back & append other departments in the same system
as long as you do not change the system name from the way it shows in the master database. If you do modify it, and try to append another department, you'll get all the sites again, since Sentinel does not recognize the name. If the name is unchanged, then you can pick and choose other departments or talkgroups with resurfacing all of the sites again.
As you show as a Premium Subscriber, you can use software such as ProScan to just import from either the RadioReference database online, or from the database listing in Sentinel.
