A neighboring county has recently switched to a trunked DMR system.
A little info here:
Pulaski County Trunking System, Various, Virginia
And some frequencies here:
Pulaski County DMR
What's the best configuration for my SDS100 to capture the needed information to program and also update the database?
The system, as is currently configured in the database, only shows one frequency for the site. Since there are a number of other frequencies licensed (as it appears on the related thread in the Virginia forum), and the system will be used for more than one agency in the county, at least a few, if not all, of those frequencies may be part of the system.
That system will not appear in the database (in Sentinel) until there is at least one talkgroup is added to the system. However, since you are a premium subscriber, you can use ProScan, or ARC536, to import what is currently entered, and get started.
Set up the system as shown for now in your software. I would add all of the other frequencies that are licensed for the same location on the license. It’s tagged as simulcast, so many, if not all, of these frequencies will show on more than one location as shown on the license. Add each to the site, and either use the color code shown in the database, or set the new entries to ‘search’ in the color code field. Save the new system and use the software to write it to your scanner.
Once that is done, I would go into the scanner’s Menu. Scroll down and select Analyze. On the Analyze menu, select LCN Finder.. You will be prompted to select the system, and then site (on that system). Once you’ve done that, let the scanner start trying to identify the correct LCN assigned to each frequency. Depending on how busy the system is, it could take several hours, or even more than a day, to complete the LCN Finder process. It needs to have a moderate amount of traffic on the system to be effective. Very little traffic, and not all the LCNs would be accessed. On the other hand, an extremely busy system will impede finding the correct values.
The LCN Finder page in the scanner menu will keep a count of how many LCNs have been found vs the total number of frequencies currently programmed on the site. Once it’s either found all of them, or you want to move on for now, be sure to save your data when exiting the LCN Finder. And after that, “read” what it has found back into your software and save the changes.
Note that if only a small number of LCNs are determined, and you want to repeat the ‘find’ process to see if more can be found, you can rerun the Finder. Just remember that each time you repeat the ‘find’ process, the scanner will reset all frequencies to “LCN 0”, regardless as to whether an LCN had been discovered previously.
