ETR said:
I am totaly new with Pro 95. I ve read the manuel over and over and i am still doing something wrong after entering the (ED) trunk 800 freqs. I do hear some talk, but I mostly hear a lot of beeps and buzzing sounds. Do I need to use the "trunk button" while entering in the freqs? I am useing the win program. Ive been down loading the freqs to my scanner after typing in the freqs.in my pc. (Riverside California Co. Sheriff) I did put the freqs in LCN too. When do i use the HEX, DEC, and AFS? That is another one i can not figure out. I am tried of banging my head against the wall. Can some one out there just give me a 1,2,3 simple instruction to help me out? And yes, I have even gone to the "easier to read manual"in the web. Please Help......... Thank you .........Ed e-mail (ETR1STCAV@AOL.COM)
Well, don't bang too hard, it causes a ringing in the ears. :lol:
The most common mistake people with a GRE (Radio Shack) scanner make when entering EDACS systems is in regard to the LCN setup. You state you put them in LCN order, and I am sure you did, but did you put them in the correct LCN? In otherwords when you look at the
Riverside County Pub Safety system on the site here did you will notice there are little (very little) numbers next to each frequency. That is the LCN. For example, Site 1 (Northwest) says frequency 866.2125 is LCN 01. That means if you were programming this site into Bank 1 of your Pro-95 it would go into frequency slot 101. LCN 02 would go into 102, etc. The mistake most people make is they start putting frequencies in the first slot (like 100) and then just go up from there.
Two rules for EDACS and LTR type (which the 95 cannot do) are:
1. Put frequencies in the correct slot by number.
2. Don't assume all systems start with LCN 01 and don't assume they go up in numerical order, they may skip numbers.
As to pressing the <TRUNK> button when putting in frequencies, no that is not how GRE radios are programmed. Besides, using Win95 means you shouldn't have to press anything on the radio at all. Just make sure that when you program the frequencies they are each set as EDACS and the overall bank setting is EDACS so that it knows how to trunk. (BTW, if you enter any conventional frequencies in the bank you can set them to FM if you like.)
As for the DEC, HEX, AFS, it is easier to program in DECimal numbers,so do all of your programming in them. On EDACS systems it is usually easier to scan in AFS, so do that. HEX is never used except for the programming of radios (not really scanners) so unless you are a real "bit head", leave that alone. :lol:
Hope this helps.
