Yes, the scanner always operates like the PSR-500's "MultiSite Roam" setting. It looks through a TSYS's list of sites, stopping when it finds the first control channel that meets the "high threshold".
The only way to manually pick and choose what sites you want to monitor is to create multiple trunked systems, each with their own sets of sites and talkgroups. You'd probably want to use different scan lists for the talkgroups in order to choose which TSYS / site arrangement is monitored.
You cannot "import" to multiple trunked systems from the library data. The scanner and the PC software both recognize that you already have a trunked system matching the RR DB's "trunked system ID" value, and will just update / add to the existing system. To create such multiple systems, at most one can be "imported" - the rest must be created manually in the PC software.
Hi Don, Just to see something could be done for this problem I submitted a ticket to the GRE Support site. I was not surprised in the answer I received and it supports what you've told us. I would like a better solution than to just program the system manually, when the radio is supposed to allow you to use the current information right from the Radioreference database and without a PC when using the microSD.
While I understand the concept of keeping it simple for the new users or casual users that just want the basic operation and database at their fingertips so they can hear P25 digital trunked system, the advanced user configuration and has it's own set of operations and programming but can't even allow for a set or individual sites to be assigned to a different scan list. To me this is somewhat of a step backward in how we are able to use the scanlist, especially with the new scan set feature and all the available memory that is now available to us by using an SD or microSD card.
With the PSR-500 we had a set amount of memory available, but are able to import in any configuration we want in multiple scanlists (using third party software such as Win500 and PSREdit500, or ARC500) as well as be able to lock out individual sites from the radio.
Many of the new features are great advancements on the PSR-800 are obviously ideas from posts right here on these forums. Too bad we can do some of the basic things that we already had with the PSR-500 and began to improve with importing and memory features only to skimp on flexible methods to do the basic programming of the radio when it comes to milti-site trunking systems.
I'm sure to many this seems a minor issue, but to some of us who started with programming banks and channels are wondering why were back to square one and have to do the basic trunked system programming all over again when we purchased a radio to give us these great features to begin with.
Can this be improved with new firmware or would the current setup have to be scrapped and reworked in order to fix this problem?
Why not do something like giving the trunked system import a different number such as a numerical increment so the radio thinks it has a different trunked system?
