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NX-5300 P25+analog scan

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Is anyone scanning both P25 trunked talkgroups and analog conventional channels in a NX-5x00? In the help for the scan list type "Limited Talkgroup", it says it can scan "zone channels in any conventional system and a single zone channel in a P25 trunking system". I whittled down the scan list to just the analog channels and a single P25 talkgroup and now it happily scans all of those. It seems like it could easily scan additional talkgroups on the same trunked system at least, but I don't see a way to do that. Is there?

There is an option Scan>Scan Information>Selected Channel Scan that if set, and I selected a trunked channel and then started the scan, caused it to scan that selected channel (as documented), but I don't know whether it scanned any of the other trunked zone channels in the scan list.

I also can't get it to priority scan at all. In Scan>Multi-Zone Scan, I set Priority 1 Type to Selected, Priority 2 Type to Fixed, and Zone and Channel pointing to one of the analog channels. When I press the assigned scan button, it flashes the LED blue (the color I configured for non-priority scan) and shows "Scan 1" in the display, as configured. Any idea how to tell it to priority-scan?

I know that's a lot. Grateful for any help. :)
 
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