Need some help

[dallascowboys]

Good Morning,

I have the 436 and have some questions on items in Sentinel, Location Control should this be No or Yes ? Hold Time what should this be ? and in the DB it shows that my counties latitude is N.31.15017 and the longitude W 85.34059 but in Sentinel it shows something different should I change this in the Sentinel part ? ( my County is Houston County )

Thanks

 

[ofd8001]

If you want the items in the Favorites List to be active only when you are within the jurisdictional boundaries of the system to be monitored (approximately), then set Location Control to On. (The rules of the database are that locations and ranges of Departments have to approximate the geographical area of the jurisdiction.)

Leaving Location Control Off means the Favorites List is always being scanned regardless of where you are.

So for example you create a Favorites List that has Dothan and Enterprise Alabama "stuff" programmed. If Location Control is On, then when you are in Dothan, the Enterprise "stuff" is off and the Dothan "stuff" is on. If Location Control was Off, then when in Dothan the scanner will attempt to scan both Dothan and Enterprise.

The deciding point is do you want to try receiving things as far away as possible at a cost of scanning channels that might be out of range?

"Hold time" is the amount of time the scanner lingers on a system before it moves to the next system. Or the amount of time it will wait for someone to talk. This is a user option and to each his own. The deciding factors are how much time do you want to spend on one system in hopes of receiving a transmission? I use the default value.

("Channel Delay" is similar - it is the amount of time the scanner lingers on a given channel after a transmission finishes, to wait for someone to reply. Again a user preference thing.)

I'm unable to explain the lat/long discrepancy. I don't make any changes, using whatever Sentinel downloads from the database. I haven't had any issues that I'm aware if,

 

[UPMan]

I can find no discrepancy between rrdb and what is in Sentinel.

 

[dallascowboys]

need some help

Thanks for the replies, great info and examples ofd8001, UPMan I checked again for Houston County Houston Sheriff on my end it is showing in Sentinel Latitude 31 0900. 61 for longitude it is showing -85 20026.12, now if you look in the RRDB latitude is N 31 15017 and longitude is W 85 34059 am I missing something here ? also have one more question can you separate in the favorites list conventional and trunk frequencies ? example one favorites list trunk and a second favorites list conventional, if so how is this done ? again thanks for the replies.

 

[jonwienke]

Thanks for the replies, great info and examples ofd8001, UPMan I checked again for Houston County Houston Sheriff on my end it is showing in Sentinel Latitude 31 0900. 61 for longitude it is showing -85 20026.12, now if you look in the RRDB latitude is N 31 15017 and longitude is W 85 34059 am I missing something here ?

Sites and departments can (and do) have separate location data.

also have one more question can you separate in the favorites list conventional and trunk frequencies ? example one favorites list trunk and a second favorites list conventional, if so how is this done ? again thanks for the replies.

BCDX36HP Sentinel Software Manual

 

[ofd8001]

can you separate in the favorites list conventional and trunk frequencies ?

You would have separate Systems within Favorites List. One would be for trunked and the other for conventional. You could have one FL for trunked "stuff" and a separate FL for convention "stuff". All depends how you want to go about it.

Being in mind it is a little difficult (or was for me at first) to grasp terminology. . .

The only thing you cannot do in the "Systems level container" when programming a scanner is have a trunked radio system and a conventional stuff.

It takes practice and patience programming this stuff before it all sinks in.

Example of what you can do (I'm being broad because I don't know exactly what you want to do, so I can't give more finite examples:

Favorites List "Home":
System 1 - Trunked System A
System 2 - Conventional System B

Or

Favorites List 1 "Home":
System 1 - Trunked System A


Favorites List 2 "Away":
System 1 - Conventional System B