Last night, when I arrived to work, I found a Deputy waiting for me.....usually not a good sign. Turns out all he wanted was the scanner in the command vehicle "reprogrammed". It only took a few keystrokes to get the majority of what he wanted on the radio by enabling/disabling scan lists, but one of the scanlists had been completely removed, most likely by someone who had no idea what they were doing. There needs to be end user access, as they are allowed to turn scanlists on/off depending on their listening pleasure.
I didn't have my computer with me, and quite honestly, I forgot how to add frequencies to scanlists, but the whole thing got me thinking.
My department has Uniden 780's, 785D's, BCT8's, BCT15's and GRE PSR-600's in a fleet of over 75 vehicles (Ambulance and command/support) which are all over the city at any given time. Since we're not looking at the generic "one radio/one user" scenario, and I know we're not the only agency to have scanners in the fleet, I feel that it would be beneficial, both in the small and large scale if the scanner manufacturers either changed the programming port to, or added a USB port to the front of the radio that could be used to access a thumb drive. The thumb drive could contain an agency specific "base" programming, which could be easily loaded into the radio when end users have corrupted the intended use of the radio either by adding or deleting frequencies/scanlists, etc.
I put this in this thread to avoid double posting in the GRE and Uniden forums, but if the mods feel it's approprite, please move it.
I didn't have my computer with me, and quite honestly, I forgot how to add frequencies to scanlists, but the whole thing got me thinking.
My department has Uniden 780's, 785D's, BCT8's, BCT15's and GRE PSR-600's in a fleet of over 75 vehicles (Ambulance and command/support) which are all over the city at any given time. Since we're not looking at the generic "one radio/one user" scenario, and I know we're not the only agency to have scanners in the fleet, I feel that it would be beneficial, both in the small and large scale if the scanner manufacturers either changed the programming port to, or added a USB port to the front of the radio that could be used to access a thumb drive. The thumb drive could contain an agency specific "base" programming, which could be easily loaded into the radio when end users have corrupted the intended use of the radio either by adding or deleting frequencies/scanlists, etc.
I put this in this thread to avoid double posting in the GRE and Uniden forums, but if the mods feel it's approprite, please move it.