PRO 197 pause when scanning trunked systems

[usmaak]

Hi,

I was wondering. I have three scanlists active. The first one is Will County, IL EDACS with 12 talkgroups. The second is Cook County, IL Motorola with three talkgroups. The third one is all the standard frequencies that I listen to. There are fifteen of those. When it is scanning, it flies through the standard frequencies in a fraction of a second. When it gets to the Will and Cook county systems, each one takes about a second. Because of this, I sometimes miss responses to traffic on both the trunked systems and the standard frequencies.

Is there any way to speed this up? I actually have more standard frequencies programmed into the scanlist for standard frequencies than I do talkgroups for either of the trunked systems. I would think that it would fly through those too.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[rdale]

All scanners have to listen to the control channel to hear if your talkgroups are being utilized... That takes a second or so, and there's nothing you can do about it. If you shorten the time, you'll miss talkgroups.

 

[pontiac-tim]

What might work for you is using the Favorites feature.
I use favorites in the evening when I don't want as much activity,just my local favorites....
We are all new to these 106 and 197's but I found it really speeds things up to split up your systems a little bit and have more scan lists than just 3.
Also if you use a wildcard object for each system and only tag a couple of your known favorite tgrp's
these scanners will really fly...........
Just my observations so far
Tim

 

[rdale]

tim - favorites has no bearing on amount of time to check a trunked system. Making new scanlists or splitting up systems will do NOTHING for that.

 

[pontiac-tim]

Yes you are right, Favorites has no bearing on the amount of time the scanner takes to check a trunked system.The only real way to "speed things up" is to remove or lock-out some of the objects (tgrp's) or (systems).Sorry for the confusion.
Favorites is however a good one button solution to speed things up by reducing the scanned objects to
only the ones that are the most important to you........at the push of a button..... instead of toggling scanlists on and off.
T

 

[usmaak]

All scanners have to listen to the control channel to hear if your talkgroups are being utilized... That takes a second or so, and there's nothing you can do about it. If you shorten the time, you'll miss talkgroups.

Thanks. The reason I asked is because my PRO-163 does not do this. It flies by the trunked channels as quickly as the conventionals.

 

[rdale]

It's likely not getting a strong enough signal then, so you are missing stuff. I have a Pro-163 and it still waits a half-second or so on every trunked system.

 

[usmaak]

It's likely not getting a strong enough signal then, so you are missing stuff. I have a Pro-163 and it still waits a half-second or so on every trunked system.

Actually, that makes a lot of sense. As badly as Will Co comes in at my house, it's even worse where the 163 is located (inlaws). Once I figure out the best indoor antenna to get, I'll be buying two of them.