Thanks. Maybe I am misunderstanding this. Isn't this only for discovering new talk groups? I don't see any option to discover a new frequency for a site.
Right, Discovery will only help find a new talkgroup, and/or collect recordings to help you determine the usage for a TGID that is not in the database. That's because you have to specify the site as it already exists, either in your Favorites list or the Main Database (if you were using usingthe database and location to scan, not a Fav list). If you spot a new frequency on one of the FCC licenses for the system, you can check it manually for usage on the scanner.
Press
Channel to pause the scanner.
Next, enter your frequency.
Do
not press
Enter. Instead, press
Channel again. The scanner will be holding on the frequency, so you could listen for the control channel signal. You can also use the Scroll knob to manually search up or down from the frequency you entered.
Since you're dealing with a Harris system, where any of the site frequencies might be used as a control at a given time, just edit the system, either on the scanner, or in Sentinel to add it. If you add it only via the scanner, then be sure to
read the update back into Sentinel. Otherwise, the next time you write to the scanner, your manual update will be overwritten and lost,
There is no way to add a new frequency to the main database itself on the scanner or in Sentinel. It has to be done through a Favorites list. Or, you can submit the additional frequency to the database, which will show up in the main database after your submission is processed.
