born2fly
Member
HI All,
Ok I decided to replace my 30+ year old Lafeyette crystal scanner with a more 'modern' one as a christmas gift to myself. Well, what a shock. 'Trunking', 'control channels' ....what the ??? yeah, I've been out of the loop for too long I guess. Anyway, I'm very computer literate, read through many related messages and came to the conclusion it would be quickest & easiest to get a software program & a cable from RS, so I did. I purchase a subscrition here as well as ARC300.
Turns out not very good support for that program by vendor, so I was wondering anyone else is using that software with their pro164. According to the instructions when I download trunking info, I should get an option to save/create in the bottom right of the window, I don't. Also when I download data, I only see control freqs displayed in database despite checking off the talkgroups I want to use.
So I was wondering how to 'correctly download & save trunking info'. I also tried to read the existing data into ARC300 from my scanner but seems scanner & computer can't connect. Checked to make sure correct port was being used & driver was correctly installed, still no luck - any suggestions as to what I may be doing incorrectly?? I also noticed that this scanner seems to 'drop' conversations right in the middle of them, is there a way to correct this ? Tried adjusting squelch, ATT and global ATT, zeromatic, but no luck.
Wow, so much new terminolgy & concepts to catch up up. I'm really suprised there are no illustrations or short videos on programming this scanner or diagrams explaining/showing trunking heirarchy in general.
Anyway If their's anyone out there that can get this greenhorn educated a bit, I am greatful ! My local RS does not do programming.
Thanks,
Rich
Ok I decided to replace my 30+ year old Lafeyette crystal scanner with a more 'modern' one as a christmas gift to myself. Well, what a shock. 'Trunking', 'control channels' ....what the ??? yeah, I've been out of the loop for too long I guess. Anyway, I'm very computer literate, read through many related messages and came to the conclusion it would be quickest & easiest to get a software program & a cable from RS, so I did. I purchase a subscrition here as well as ARC300.
Turns out not very good support for that program by vendor, so I was wondering anyone else is using that software with their pro164. According to the instructions when I download trunking info, I should get an option to save/create in the bottom right of the window, I don't. Also when I download data, I only see control freqs displayed in database despite checking off the talkgroups I want to use.
So I was wondering how to 'correctly download & save trunking info'. I also tried to read the existing data into ARC300 from my scanner but seems scanner & computer can't connect. Checked to make sure correct port was being used & driver was correctly installed, still no luck - any suggestions as to what I may be doing incorrectly?? I also noticed that this scanner seems to 'drop' conversations right in the middle of them, is there a way to correct this ? Tried adjusting squelch, ATT and global ATT, zeromatic, but no luck.
Wow, so much new terminolgy & concepts to catch up up. I'm really suprised there are no illustrations or short videos on programming this scanner or diagrams explaining/showing trunking heirarchy in general.
Anyway If their's anyone out there that can get this greenhorn educated a bit, I am greatful ! My local RS does not do programming.
Thanks,
Rich