With ICall active, you'll hear all the ICalls on the system, which can be quite daunting if you're really interested in only the LEO ICalls and the garbage trucks are chatting. If it's obviously not what you're interested in, you can lock out that ICall just as you can any other ID in search mode, subject to the same limitations for the number you can lock out. Other ICalls will continue to come in. However, on a large system, this is simply not practical.
On my system of primary interest, ICall is used quite extensively--mostly in areas that are not of interest to me. Most of the LEO radio IDs are clustered in a range. Thus, when I see the radio ID (in UniTrunker, for example) or the 7xxxxx ICall ID pop up on the scanner, I can, with high confidence, know that is a target of interest based on their prior talk-group affiliation history.
I have not found a solution that will allow selective monitoring of specific radios/ICall IDs. It would, for example, be really nice to allow monitoring of a specific 7xxxxx by entering that radio/ICall ID into the scan list, but it doesn't work. (Yes, you can put the wildcard ICall ID in a scan list to monitor ICalls, but that's an all-or-nothing solution--made even worse by not showing the individual IDs when they come up.) Beyond individual IDs, how about a mask (sort'a like IP masking?) to allow selective monitoring of a specific range, or ranges, or ICall IDs?
Anyone have any success at doing this? Am I missing some feature in the 396/996? If it's not there now, I would consider that an item of interest in some future upgrade.
On my system of primary interest, ICall is used quite extensively--mostly in areas that are not of interest to me. Most of the LEO radio IDs are clustered in a range. Thus, when I see the radio ID (in UniTrunker, for example) or the 7xxxxx ICall ID pop up on the scanner, I can, with high confidence, know that is a target of interest based on their prior talk-group affiliation history.
I have not found a solution that will allow selective monitoring of specific radios/ICall IDs. It would, for example, be really nice to allow monitoring of a specific 7xxxxx by entering that radio/ICall ID into the scan list, but it doesn't work. (Yes, you can put the wildcard ICall ID in a scan list to monitor ICalls, but that's an all-or-nothing solution--made even worse by not showing the individual IDs when they come up.) Beyond individual IDs, how about a mask (sort'a like IP masking?) to allow selective monitoring of a specific range, or ranges, or ICall IDs?
Anyone have any success at doing this? Am I missing some feature in the 396/996? If it's not there now, I would consider that an item of interest in some future upgrade.