Ok, how about within 1 hour.
To confirm the most important thing, is that the Easter egg that was in the pro 106/197 still works in this radio! hehe
What easter egg might that be?
Long story short; fire up ARC500 and locate the sites and talk groups for Colorado DTRS (APCO 25 Phase I is state wide except for a small county that's Phase II I don't care about many miles away). Something like 219 sites and MANY talk groups. I hit the default on the branch for all sites and talk groups. I upload to my Pro 651 and fire it up. Nothing. Sites and talk groups are on the scanner but it never mutters a squelch break. Meanwhile my BCD 436 HP is chattering along right beside it, so I know there is traffic. Hmmm.....next I switch to only sites and talk groups for El Paso county. Upload only those and fire it up. Nothing. Just for grins I upload some conventional frequencies in the area. They work fine. No APCO. Obviously I'm not understanding something about how sites and their associated talk groups work. But I thought the default "everything" in the branches would work and the scanner would pick and choose what it wants. Guess not. At this point I'm out of ideas and my BCD 436 is laughing it's a** off at the 651. Help!
Thanks in advance for all comments.
Yes, I got the warning about the 32 trunk frequencies; it asked me if I wanted to create multiple copies of the trunk system with duplicate talk groups. I tried both ways yes and no. When I clicked no it said to go back and reduce the number of trunk frequencies. If I do that, then it doesn't let me choose all the sites for El Paso County. It's a little frustrating, because in my opinion the software is supposed to solve these issues as to what talk groups go with what sites. And no, as the scanner scans, all I get is a string of text across the bottom line that says "State of Colorado DTRS". I also get an error message that says no frequencies have been programmed for these talk groups, yet when I click on the individual objects the frequencies are definitely there for the entire site. Is there a different software package you recommend for the pro 651? Trying to do it manually is completely out of the question and way too time-consuming. I will figure this out because It's too expensive a scanner (even the deal I got) to listen to nothing more than conventional frequencies and aircraft. But I gotta say, the 436s method of loading the entire national database onto an SD card and then entering your ZIP Code and letting the scanner figure out where you are and what you're going to listen to seems to be a much more intelligent solution then getting a degree in radio trunking.
PRO 651 problems solved.
Did you use software to program it? There might be a setting deep within that got inadvertently fouled up. I haven't had any experience with a P25 channel like what you have. All mine down here are P25 trunking.
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