G5 Pre-Purchase Questions

[CTWaters]

Just have to be a little creative with your knob positions. On the systems I monitor I break them up. Position 1 is what I label as primary, This is will usually be the Dispatch talkgroups of the services I want to Monitor. Then the next knob position is Fire, Police, Events, and Interops

Yeah, that's what I am trying to do. I made one for Sim G, which includes all the local PD dispatches that aren't encrypted and PFD dispatch and talkgroups.

Only thing I wish I could do, is combine Systems on one knob, then I would be all set.

If there was a way to combine RWC and TOPAZ in to one knob, man oh man...

 

[Hit_Factor]

If there was a way to combine RWC and TOPAZ in to one knob, man oh man...

Two G4s on your belt would work well for this.

 

[blackbelter]

If there was a way to combine RWC and TOPAZ in to one knob, man oh man...

Perhaps the #1 requested feature from the scanning fans. I however understand " The more you scan the less you hear" process.

 

[CanesFan95]

Yeah, we all wish there was a way to tell it a TGID (or a list of TGIDs) and then have it check multiple different sites (control channels) for those TGIDs. The other big wish-for is a scan delay, so it doesn't keep hopping to other TGs without waiting a few seconds for a reply first.

But that's why "it's a pager, not a scanner", as they say. The device was really mainly meant to sit on one channel and unmute when fire dispatch tones are heard.

 

[pandel]

I listened for few days and it quickly became obvious which talk groups I listened to and in what order. After that all I had to do was rank them in order of importance to me.
In (Don't yell!) the "old" software and I would assume in the "new" software as well, you can rank talk groups as Priority and Non-priority.
Simply place your priority talk groups (in order of priority) in the priority box and everything else in the non priority-box ranked by priority if you are type A like me.
Your Unication will be about as close to a scanner as it's going to get at that point. You will still need to manually pause (if needed I rarely do) the unit. My G4 will jump over to the priority talkgroup almost every time with the setup I have described. Good Luck!