Alright then when a update is made from the update firmware what does it benefit to the scanner? Where does that new info go if not to the full database or does both selections do the same
The updated details
are in the databse file after the update process completes. But they do not change data in any of your Favorites lists. You do that manually.
You're a Premium Subscriber. Set up your
MyRR page with the counties and trunked systems that are of interest to you. You do that by going to the database page for the each county, or trunked systems, and click
Watch.
That adds the system or county to your MYRR page. If you are logged in when you start RadioReference, you'll see the MYRR page you set up, instead of a generic page with a few links to access things.
On your MYRR page, when an update or change is done for that county or system is done, the listing on your strart page is highlighted. Yellow, if the change was done in the last 24 hours, or a yellowish color if the update was within the last 7 days. You can then go to the page itself, and see what was changed. Quite often, it's a small "housekeeping" change ot update to background information that has zero impact on any of your systems. Unless there are a very large number of additions, such as a block of new talkgroups are added to a new system, of when another agency moves to that system, I manually make the change in the Favorites list where I have that system or county. That's much quicker than starting from scratch, and rebuilding a list, or a system on the list, every time a minor update is performed.
As RBMTS noted, if you are listening to the main database, using location and range, you would want the most recent data to be available to you. For Favorites, if you make significant changes or additions, then you would need to write the updated list to the scanner.