Loumaag wrote:
There are different places that show Hex and Decimal. The RR database shows talkgoups as Decimal, which is fine since that is what scanners will show. The RR database however also uses Decimal for tower ID's on the newer 9600 baud systems (like StarCom21 in IL or the MI MPSCS systems) when the scanners that the majority of users have use Hex. Some programming software allows either Hex of Decimal entries. Also, Trunker and other similar applications use Hex or allows one to choose Hex or Decimal.
Is there a way for the RR Database to show the tower ID's on Astro systems in Hex Mode vs Decimal? Since both the Pro96/2096 and BC396/996 radios ID towers in Hex this would relieve a lot of confusion. It should be an easy thing to do to allow alpha characters (According to what I hear this database field only allows numeric characters).
I am going to close this as some of this advice is just going to confuse the newer scanner users. The DEC we show in the Database is the Uniden Decimal Value. This is the value that all trunk tracking scanners use. No trunk tracking scanner uses anything else.
To the old hands:
It would depend on what system as to if the HEX value we show in the DB could be converted to the Uniden Decimal value directly or not. The HEX value is not stored in the Database, it is merely displayed; if it was up to me we wouldn't do it as we get more confused questions and even more confusing answers to why it is there. In regard to tower numbers; there is no intention of ever displaying a site number with the HEX tower number.
This thread made me add to the RR FAQ pages on the Wiki. I suggest everyone look there for the correct information.
There are different places that show Hex and Decimal. The RR database shows talkgoups as Decimal, which is fine since that is what scanners will show. The RR database however also uses Decimal for tower ID's on the newer 9600 baud systems (like StarCom21 in IL or the MI MPSCS systems) when the scanners that the majority of users have use Hex. Some programming software allows either Hex of Decimal entries. Also, Trunker and other similar applications use Hex or allows one to choose Hex or Decimal.
Is there a way for the RR Database to show the tower ID's on Astro systems in Hex Mode vs Decimal? Since both the Pro96/2096 and BC396/996 radios ID towers in Hex this would relieve a lot of confusion. It should be an easy thing to do to allow alpha characters (According to what I hear this database field only allows numeric characters).