I just got a WS1065 for Christmas. I upgraded my account and got the 30 day trial version of win 500 so I can program my scanner. Here's the problem, it will load the frequencies but won't keep them. I tried to load 3 different areas and only managed to keep one set. I'm also not hearing anything from the list of frequencies that I've loaded. For a city of 400K plus people, I should hear something, right?? What am I doing wrong? Would love some help. Step by step even, if that is what it takes. Thanks in advance.
Have you seen this user
guide for WIN500?
Also check out this Wiki
page and the links on it.
Reading the description of your problem, it sounds like you are loading a set of frequencies to the scanner, then sending a second set, then later a third, but you're saying that the scanner is only "saving" one set. Is that what you are doing?
There are three software programs that will work for your scanner. You have WIN500, using it on the 30 day free trial. Another is the ARC500 that Lou mentioned. The third is PSREdit500. All three have a trial period, after which you would need to either purchase a license for the software, or discontinue use. All three will program your scanner, though the on-screen interfaces look and work a little differently. I prefer WIN500, bit if you like one of the other two better, then use it. I would recommend that you purchase whichever one you like best. Besides allowing you to easily save your programming data in case it needs to be reloaded, using software also lets you see most of the information needed at one time, instead of stepping through multiple screens on the scanner itself. While it is to your advantage to also learn how to manually program and edit through the keyboard, that can be done once you are more familiar with the scanner and it's features.
On the Object Oriented scanners, such as yours, each time you download a set of frequencies and systems to the scanner, it erases what was already there. It does not add to what you already had programmed. Instead, if you've created three (or more) separate sets of channels, combine them all into one scanlist, then load that combined file to get all things in place at one time. That way, you will not lose anything.
