I am looking to augment my scanner collection with a 396.
Thus, I have DLd freescan, and am a little corn-fused about quickkeys myself.... i am playing with this before I buy the actual scanner.
I have DLd a system from RR, below which there are many groups, each containing a collection of talk groups. Got THAT part of it.
On the SYSTEM, I believe, the quick-keys available are 0-9 (i think). when you get down to the talk group level, looks like there are 30 quick keys(maybe more) of them available at THAT level.
This is where my confusion starts. If I assign "1" to the SYSTEM, and, say "2" to all of the talk-groups below it, what have I got? ... and how does that translate to the user interface/keyboard with regards to turning them on/off. The "easier to read" manual didn't shed light on that FOR ME.
I know this may seem like an odd question, or stupid question, but this is where I get a disconnect, not having the actual hardware to play with.
I have a PSR500, and, as many know, you set up your 800 system(s), then assign any/all talk groups to whatever/however many banks you want. Intuitively, this makes sense to me....
I am having trouble making the paradigm shift to "Uniden-Speak".
Maybe someone can clarify....
With the Uniden DMA scanners, you assign
System Quick Keys to
Conventional Systems, which is a collection of conventional frequencies. That could be a: single county (a small, rural county, for example); a medium sized city, with a small number of frequency assignments; or perhaps a department, police or fire, in a larger city, with a large number of frequencies in use.
Your
Systems can be further subdivided into
Groups, and
Group Quick Keys assigned to them. I use the groups to to sort frequency usage by city, agency, or type. It all depends on the type of system.
For
Trunked Systems, the Quick Keys are called
Site Quick Keys. Each transmit site, for the same system, can be given the same Site Quick Key, so that all can be toggled on or off at the same time, or you can give each one, or a number of them (perhaps grouped geographically) the same key. You can also use
Groups, with the Group Quick Keys, in a Trunked system, to sort out the various talkgroups by user and/or function. By default, when importing, FreeSCAN will generate a 'group' for each 'group' of talkgroups (or frequencies) that are separated in the database with a heading title.
System, or Site, Quick Keys can be any number from 0 through 99. You can assign the same number to as many systems as you wish to turn or off at the same time.
Group Quick Keys are 0 through 9, though you can have up to twenty Groups in a given system.
The scanner display is:
Conventional Systems:
System Name<----alternating with---->Group Name
Frequency's Text Tag
Trunked Systems:
Site Name<-------alternating with---->Group Name
Talkgroup's Text Tag
You did not specifically mention them, but you also have
Startup keys available in the 396XT. You assign these (0 through 9) to systems to selectively load only what you want to scan. Like, for a trip, a 'key' for each segment. Or, one 'key' for scanning around your home, a different one for where you work, if the systems you can hear there are different.
Besides the link UPMan provided, see
this Wiki page.
Also see:
Program your DMA Scanner - The RadioReference Wiki
