SDS100/SDS200: More SDS100 and programming for GPS operation.
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Yes Dave, Manatee-Sarasota Counties Trunking System, Bradenton, Florida
I'm focusing on just Sarasota County (Sheriff, Sarasota PD, and Sarasota FD
Thanks for the time you're taking. The above explanation was excellent and what I think I have been doing, it just doesn't seem to be triggering to move to the next area.
If I was doing this, I would not set a site for a given geographical area. (The site may be outside the geographical area.) Rather, I would accept the lat/long/range that RR has in the database.
What do you mean "triggering to move to the next area"? If you are focusing on just Sarasota County, you haven't described what that next area is.
Lastly, and this is personal preference. I'm at odds with how RR sets up Departments. They base location on the geographic area for the jurisdiction. Theoretically they have Departments turning off when you leave the service area of that entity. But, they can still be heard miles away.
I listen to a community some 40 miles away. Using RR lat/long/range for that community, it would be turned off. But I "fooled" the system by increasing its range.
I respect that RR had to have some rules for lat/long/range and am sure this was done with careful thought. However my tastes "cast a wider net".
Have you raised this question in the Florida page? Typically this page is more for generalized concepts on scanner behavior. Programming for specific areas is for the state pages. (Folks having great knowledge of a local system may not always look at scanner pages, particularly if their listening is more SDR oriented.)
What do you mean "triggering to move to the next area"? If you are focusing on just Sarasota County, you haven't described what that next area is.
Lastly, and this is personal preference. I'm at odds with how RR sets up Departments. They base location on the geographic area for the jurisdiction. Theoretically they have Departments turning off when you leave the service area of that entity. But, they can still be heard miles away.
I listen to a community some 40 miles away. Using RR lat/long/range for that community, it would be turned off. But I "fooled" the system by increasing its range.
I respect that RR had to have some rules for lat/long/range and am sure this was done with careful thought. However my tastes "cast a wider net".
Have you raised this question in the Florida page? Typically this page is more for generalized concepts on scanner behavior. Programming for specific areas is for the state pages. (Folks having great knowledge of a local system may not always look at scanner pages, particularly if their listening is more SDR oriented.)
Lot to unpack there forgive me if I miss something.
To start with, I'm trying to let the scanner/gps pick what I want to listen to when I move from the City PD and an area the FD covers with certain station (TG's) to an area that the Sherff covers and then another FD area that has different stations. all 3 have different coverage areas but use the same Sites.
Triggering - When I move from area to area I expect it to reset what it sees, but it does not. All a within the county but have different coverage areas. When in the city I don't want to listen to the Sheriff and when out of the city I want to listen to only the Sheriff. When I move from one "Zone" of the FD to another I want listen to those TG's. The FD has 4 different Dispatch Zones. Non of which coincide with either the Sheriff of PD.
I have not raised the question on the Florida page. I felt that this was a problem that was not a FL unique question but a problem with the way I was approaching the GPS scanning. As an aside but might be germain, I cannot access the SD card while in the scanner. ScanPro see the radio and can control it but when I put it into the bulk mode / turning into storage media it will not access the SD card. Maybe there is something wrong with the connector and although the radio see and displays the GPS and Lat Long (I have that displayed) it can't use the info because of some hardware issue with the connector.
There are two options when you connect your scanner to a computer: Mass Storage and Serial Port. Mass Storage is used when programming and Serial Port is for controlling the scanner via software. You make the selection when connecting the USB cable.
On the other topic, listening to the sheriff while in the county, but not in the city (simplifying), that's something that may not work, or at least that I can see.
When you are using location based scanning, you are setting up a system of circles. When the scanner is within the circle, the appropriate "things" will be turned on. Your scenario contemplating the "hole in the doughnut" situation where when you are in that "hole", the appropriate "things" are turned off (like the sheriff). The scanner just won't do that.
I note that you contemplate using rectangles, but the concept is the same. You cannot carve out a central portion of that rectangle that corresponds to the city area, thus turning off the sheriff.
The only way I can envision doing what you want would involve some manual interventions with the use of Department Quick Keys. Nothing automatic I can think off.
On the other topic, listening to the sheriff while in the county, but not in the city (simplifying), that's something that may not work, or at least that I can see.
When you are using location based scanning, you are setting up a system of circles. When the scanner is within the circle, the appropriate "things" will be turned on. Your scenario contemplating the "hole in the doughnut" situation where when you are in that "hole", the appropriate "things" are turned off (like the sheriff). The scanner just won't do that.
I note that you contemplate using rectangles, but the concept is the same. You cannot carve out a central portion of that rectangle that corresponds to the city area, thus turning off the sheriff.
The only way I can envision doing what you want would involve some manual interventions with the use of Department Quick Keys. Nothing automatic I can think off.
Yes, I can put it into Mass Storage but then can read or write to the card. This is manually or with ProScan. So smoking of connector issue sense I can take the card out of the radio and do it that way with no trouble.
I see what you are saying and that might be what is going on except the PD is on one edge of the Sheriff not surrounded by them. I am trying a tactic to have a gap between areas where it would theoretically be a dead zone. I could the Use a Global Range of say .5 But Your thinking may be pointing in the right direction.
Just getting the GPS/Location operation was a huge leap in scanner stuff. It was, I believe, actually patented by Paul Opitz the late Uniden Product Manager. I don't know how long patents last and whether they can be tinkered with by someone other than the patent holder. I don't know what the passing of the patent holder would mean however.
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