bonus1331 said:
Now that I remembered, I ran into the same problem with the BCD396T. It only allows 20 groups and 200 TGs per system. And those 20 groups (sounds familiar?) you have to split among only 10 Group quick-keys. Yes, you can duplicate systems and so on but the way I *ideally* wanted to arrange it, not only it takes for ever to setup but I was using almost 50% of the memory just for our statewide system (Yes, even for our "little" state/town as some refer to it, we got over 12,000 users and hundreds of TGs already and growing just in this system.) And then, once you have it setup, it's another pain to keep all the duplicated systems and TGs updated across the radio, especially if you don't have a computer handy.
Another pain is enabling and disabling systems and groups on the fly. Especially Groups and waiting for a particular system to become active and then press and hold Func + whatever number. That is if you can remember what's what among the dozens of systems and groups. Or you have to go through the menus and while driving or something else is not the most practical or safe thing to do. That's another reason why, if GRE adds more scanlists, I hope it's plain scanlists like now with no sub-groups. Otherwise, I can't see a practical approach to enable/disable stuff. See, I can rant too about what I don't like and I could go on about many other short-comings and limitations of the Uniden. I chose to keep the BCD396T and work around all of it because after all it's a great scanner too.
Imagine that, I guess Uniden's DMA doesn't work that well for everybody either....
I guess Uniden got the message eventually and upped the TGs (a little) and allowed "sharing" of TGs across systems HOWEVER, not in the current model BUT in a new one (BCD996T). Seems to me they "could" implement the TG sharing feature in the BCD396T with a firmware update, even at the cost of losing memory or something, but they haven't done so nor I think they will. Most likely in next handheld model! :evil:
