How Is Your Scanner Programmed?

[cowboymike1971]

I was hoping to have some people chime in on this. How is your scanner programmed? I'm going to re-do my banks in my BC780xlt and was hoping to get some fresh ideas on how to program the banks.. I currently have various cities fire and PD lumped together. I was possibly going to try an all fire bank and and all PD bank etc. i will have one bank dedictaed to the city of Seattle. But looking for suggestions, and lets all chime in on how we have our banks and channels set up. Thanks, Happy Holidays!

 

[lowboy654]

I myself put fire in one bank city cops in the next bank and than county stuff in its own bank with most scanners have ten banks so its just a matter of how you want your scanner to work and what works for you and the type of scanner that you have

 

[Stavro35]

I've got five scanners. .

Pro2006 mostly commercial and military aviation

Pro2052 mostly commercial and military aviation

Pro97 this is my every day scanner. Seattle/Northwest Washington
trunked and conventional systems. Including U.S.C.G,navy, railroads.
amateur radio. Includes Snohomish,Pierece, and Kitsap counties.

Pro96 Puget sound naval shipyard. Digital federal frequencies. .
This is also my travel scanner. I currently have a few banks set
aside for another trip to Portland Oregon/ Vancouver Washington I
have used it for a trip to Albuquerque New Mexico.

Pro95 for talkgroups I don't have in my Pro97 for the King county/
Seattle trunked system...Also for my county's S.O. My island police and fire. All on VHF,with the fire department being VHF lo band.

I want two PSR 500's. .

 

[cowboymike1971]

Re: How is your scanner programmed?

Right on, thanks people keep the good ideas coming! Anyone scan the king co. and eastside systems? How are your Talkgroups brokendown? Do you do an all PD bank? An All FD bank? EMS? S.O.? city services bank? thanks

 

[SouthSoundScanner]

This is my setup.

Bank 1, Federal Way Police
Bank 2, Auburn Police
Bank 3, Algona/Pacific Police
Bank 4, Kent Police
Bank 5, Des Moines Police
Bank 6, Tacoma Police
Bank 7, King County Sheriff
Bank 8, WSP
Bank 9, Pierce County Sheriff

 

[kellykeeton]

I have every trunk system in a group (EPSCA, VALLY, SEATTLE, PORT, TACOMA, etc) then i have a multi group whch has a mix of all the city's i want to listen to.

in the systems i have groups for city's then groups for fire etc.

I have my systems programed up for 246 and bc15 that you can download demo of ARC software and check out how i did it. You can also cut and paste into your radio that way.

 

[eclipsecivic2002]

My setup on my most used scanner the pro 97 is

Bank 1: Pierce county sheriff, WSP, Puyallup tribal pd, lern
Bank 2: Pierce county firecomm, fire rednet
Bank 3: Tacoma police and fire
Bank 4:Seattle police and fire
Bank 5: News media

 

[Wilrobnson]

Home scanner-

Bank 1- Puyallup PD, FD, DPW and LERN
Bank 2-10- open as it's just the bedside scanner.

Portable-

Bank 1- Mutual Aid stuff (LERN, NLECS, OSCR, MARS, I-call and I-tacs, Rednet, State ops channels, DOE Common, etc)

Bank 2- Puyallup PD/FD/DPW, Pierce Co EMD, Pierce Co DPW, Firecomm, PSE local operations.

Bank 3- WSP Tacoma E/W, Seattle N/S, and WSP Car1-4, and WDFW wardens

Banks 4-10 are 'project banks'.

Edit: This is a little more explanatory, though in-depth (the blanks are for on-the-fly programming, or new stuff I want to keep in the continuously monitoring banks, i.e. 165.075 from the fed section someone thought they heard in Federal Way)-

Bank 1-

1- LERN
2- NLEC
3- MARS
4- OSCR
5- Air Guard
6- ICALL
7- ITAC-1
8- ITAC-2
9- ITAC-3
10- ITAC-4
11- State ops-1
12- State ops-2
13- State ops-3
14- State ops-4
15- State ops-5
16- WSP 'State'
17- DOE Common
18- Blank
19- 146.520 Ham calling
20- Blank

Blank-2

21- Puyallup PD-1 Dispatch
22- Puyallup FD Tac-8, also FairComm
23- Puyallup PD-3 Tac
24- Puyallup DPW
25- Blank
26- Pierce Co DEM
27- Pierce Co DPW
28- Blank
29- REDNET
30- FireComm F-1
31- FireComm F-4 Local
32- Puyallup DPW handhelds
33- Puyallup TRS, not in use yet
34- ""
35- ""
36- ""
37- ""
38- Blank
39- Sumner PD C/C
40- PSE Local ch.

Bank 3-

41- WSP Car-1
42- WSP Car-2
43- WSP Car-3
44- WSP Car-4
45- WSP Tacoma East
46- WSP EYC and C/C
47- WSP ISB-1
48- WDFW Wardens Tac-18
49- WSP Seattle South
50- WSP Seattle North
51- WSP Tacoma West
52-56 Blank
57- WDFW Wardens C/C
58- Airlift NW Conpany freq
59- New Orting PD repeater (nothing yet)
60- Input to 59

 

[AuntBee09]

o gosh, i have a lot of different kinds of banks. but the ones i listen to most are like this:

one dedicated for eastside PDs and fire
one dedicated to WSP
one dedicated to private security
one dedicated to media
one dedicated for everything
one dedicated to "unknown freqs"
and lots more lol (but i don't use them much, only when i'm driving; like the boeing plant freqs, if i'm in the area, i may listen)

 

[gregma]

I see a lot of replies about banks, but what about those that have Dynamic Memory and doesn't use banks? I'm thinking of setting mine up as follows (what do you think)?

King County
-sub-groups by city
Snohomish County
-sub-groups by city
Skagit County
-sub-groups by city
Whatcom County
-sub-groups by city
Pierce County
-sub-groups by city
Kitsap County
-sub-groups by city
Chelan County
-sub-groups by city
Washington State
Federal

 

[lowboy654]

I see a lot of replies about banks, but what about those that have Dynamic Memory and doesn't use banks? I'm thinking of setting mine up as follows (what do you think)?

King County
-sub-groups by city
Snohomish County
-sub-groups by city
Skagit County
-sub-groups by city
Whatcom County
-sub-groups by city
Pierce County
-sub-groups by city
Kitsap County
-sub-groups by city
Chelan County
-sub-groups by city
Washington State
Federal

Looks good to me

 

[gregma]

Looks good to me

Well, looks like I am going to have to rethink things. Seems as if this Dynamic Memory isn't quite what I thought it was.

Each "System" has to be tied to a particular System Type (conventional, LT, Edacs, etc).

So, I'll have to organize things by trunks? I'm getting myself confused

 

[lowboy654]

Well, looks like I am going to have to rethink things. Seems as if this Dynamic Memory isn't quite what I thought it was.

Each "System" has to be tied to a particular System Type (conventional, LT, Edacs, etc).

So, I'll have to organize things by trunks? I'm getting myself confused

What kind of scanner are you useing ?

 

[gregma]

What kind of scanner are you useing ?

BR330T. Will be getting it tomorrow and I'm trying to get a jump on things to get everything setup beforehand. I have trials of ARC330 and ScanControl.

Just have to re-think how I'm going to organize things.

 

[lowboy654]

BR330T. Will be getting it tomorrow and I'm trying to get a jump on things to get everything setup beforehand. I have trials of ARC330 and ScanControl.

Just have to re-think how I'm going to organize things.

Sounds like you will be having some fun

 

[cowboymike1971]

These are all great set ups keep them coming... Its helping to produce some good set ups. thank you..

 

[RWF]

Gregma,

I can send you my setup for the 330 using the Arc software.Let me know.

 

[gregma]

Gregma,

I can send you my setup for the 330 using the Arc software.Let me know.

That would be awesome! Give me a good starting base.

 

[gregma]

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[AtomicTaco]

Redoing the banks on my PRO-97 again.

Bank 0 Misc
Bank 1 Fire/EMS/WSP
Bank 2 Ham
Bank 3 Air
Bank 4 Businesses
Bank 5 Media
Bank 6
Bank 7
Bank 8
Bank 9 Drive-Thru

Misc is pretty much that; it also has the KC Public Safety in 084-099.
Bank 1 has various Fire and EMS frequencies in addition to WSP because I didn't know where else to put them.
Bank 2 has various ham related stuff
Bank 3 is mostly SeaTac frequencies (For some reason I really like how AM sounds; not broadcast, but this stuff)
Bank 4 is various businesses that use radios for communications. I also have some schools in here; I might split that off eventually.
Bank 5 is the media frequencies I've gotten off this thread and from the ULS.
Banks 6-8 are mostly open; although I'll probably put all of my UW stuff in one of those the next time I go up there.
Bank 9 is Drive Thru frequencies that I've found. It's nice to have in the car; if the restaurant is using a high power system then you can hear what's taking so long. And it's fun to show off to the people I used to work with ("Look, I can listen to the Drive Thru on this!").