All of this is exactly why I said the HEX is useless for the scanner hobbyist. The people who know what the HEX represents in the DB don't need your formula. Your supplying the HEX information in a submission should not have invoked any contact with you at all, since HEX information can be imported directly into the DB (providing of course that you provided correct information).
Com-4 said:
The info on the database was NOT correct which is why I brought up this thread to begin with. I submitted info in HEX form & the database admin person did not know how to figure out the DEC. Therefore saying that this info is useless is a stupid thing to say by you.
I don't consider myself stupid, and based on my experience on this site and your attitude you don't really know what you are talking about. The HEX information, as I said, for the scanner hobbyist is useless information. The fact that you want to show off and submit HEX is fine, I notice you said you get it by "reading" radios you get hold of, that would indicate that you have Motorola software (I only explain this so that the normal users of this forum know that you have it), a fact I was well aware of before I made my first comment. Your attitude that you hold forth and get away with in the Florida forum will not hold here.
- First, you are not on the staff here, so your assuming to advise users in this forum is inappropriate.
- Second, your referring to my comment as "stupid" when it was clearly appropriate shows that you are ignorant of the purpose of this forum.
- Third, you provided an incomplete picture and when called on it, by me and others, you defend your incorrect data and when overwhelming evidence is presented you then say "It Obviously does not work for P25 systems. {I dont have any P25 here so I didnt bother working that part out} ". [sarcasm] Well, I guess I will contact Lindsay and tell him to remove all the Project 25 systems because Com-4 doesn't think we should bother with them. :roll: [/sarcasm]
I will repeat my position and there is no need for further comment on this.
The formula Com-4 presented does not work in all instances and his explanation of why it doesn't work exactly is flawed. For you professionals out there, you don't need the formula, as you already know how to convert from the Uniden Trunk Tracking Decimal number that all scanners use to either the Motorola HEX or Decimal value to program your radios.
For you hobbyist, forget that HEX exists, it really has no meaning for you or your scanner, there are no scanners out there that use it. Before anyone jumps up and says anything about Scanner Programming Software using it, they don't use it correctly either so don't try and use the HEX values we have in the DB at all; they are there only for the professionals.
And that, Com-4, is why this entire thread is a waste of bandwidth.
