Illinois Starcom Question

[bobcraig]

Hello everyone:

I have a SDS150 in my car and have traveled in the last couple of days from northwestern Illinois to deep southern Illinois. My scanner is set to the
full database. I have double checked the national systems, the service types several times, and made sure unwanted favorite lists are turned off. My GPS is activated with the range set to 0.0. My problem is that the radio is scanning a lot of things I don't need. For example, I do have a favorites list of Union Station in Chicago, and it is trying to scan the Amtrak Police Department. I have triple checked and that favs list is OFF. The service lists I have on are Fire and Law dispatch, Tac, and Talk. Also, interop and multi Disp, Tac, and Talk. In my hotel now I switched from GPS to zip code and it seems to be better.

In the last couple of weeks, I have traveled in Iowa and Minnesota and didn't seem to have this problem. Also, when I manually scan through the channels it seems to pick up oddball stuff like businesses. Is it actually trying to scan these things? Is this just a quirk of the Illinois Starcom25 system? I do know for a fact that yesterday it was trying to scan the Amtrak Police at Union Station in Chicago while I was in the Peoria area.

I'm curious if I'm missing something obvious.

Thanks,

Bob

 

[BabaYaga60]

Hello everyone:

I have a SDS150 in my car and have traveled in the last couple of days from northwestern Illinois to deep southern Illinois. My scanner is set to the
full database. I have double checked the national systems, the service types several times, and made sure unwanted favorite lists are turned off. My GPS is activated with the range set to 0.0. My problem is that the radio is scanning a lot of things I don't need. For example, I do have a favorites list of Union Station in Chicago, and it is trying to scan the Amtrak Police Department. I have triple checked and that favs list is OFF. The service lists I have on are Fire and Law dispatch, Tac, and Talk. Also, interop and multi Disp, Tac, and Talk. In my hotel now I switched from GPS to zip code and it seems to be better.

In the last couple of weeks, I have traveled in Iowa and Minnesota and didn't seem to have this problem. Also, when I manually scan through the channels it seems to pick up oddball stuff like businesses. Is it actually trying to scan these things? Is this just a quirk of the Illinois Starcom25 system? I do know for a fact that yesterday it was trying to scan the Amtrak Police at Union Station in Chicago while I was in the Peoria area.

I'm curious if I'm missing something obvious.

Thanks,

Bob

Go into the menu and Check the Service Types that you have Activated, and You'll have to go into Sentinel and Edit the Database there, to Permanently Avoid the things in the Database that you Don't want to hear. These SDS, series Scanners DO need some TLC and tweaking to get them to do, or Not do what you wish !

 

[RBMTS]

When you activate the "Full Database" you will receive all trunking systems and conventional frequencies in range of your location. That's a lot to scan. It appears that you are only interested in the StarCom system (because of the title of this thread). A suggestion to you is to push the softkey to hold on "System". Then select "StarCom". That will then filter out any of the conventional and non-Starcom trunking systems you might be in range of. You will only hear agencies or departments within range of your location (unless the talkgroup is indicated as statewide).

Hope this helps you.

 

[bobcraig]

Thanks!