PSR 800 Scanlist capacity

[Scannerboy1968]

Quick question, what is the capacity of a "Scanlist"? I understand that a scanset can include all 201 scanlists but I am thinking on getting a 800 and have been reading up on them. I am used to banks, channels, and V-folders.
Thanks, Andy

 

[gewecke]

I'm thinking about a PSR 800 also.

I found this in the wiki, not sure if it's what you wanted to know?

Object capacity (Nominal, with 2 GB MicroSD Card): > 10 million, varies depending on user configuration

73,
n9zas

 

[Scannerboy1968]

Gewecke,
Appreciate the response, and if the way I understand it.....you could technically place 10 million frequencies in a scan list? That would of course be unfeasible but awesome if that is correct.
thanks, Andy

 

[GTR8000]

Right from the user's manual:

Keep in mind that picking an entire grouping for importing may result in a very large number of objects being imported to the PSR-800ʼs Scanlists. The PSR-800ʼs capacity for objects is limited only by the size of the MicroSD Card memory, meaning that a massive number of objects can potentially be imported and saved in Scanlists.

You can continue to browse the Library and pick as many objects for importing to Scanlists as you like.

It's virtually unlimited. With a large enough SD card, you could more or less import every frequency known to man to a single scanlist.

 

[gewecke]

Yeah, needless to say you probably wouldn't out-grow your scanner!
I also read the PSR 800 is picky with the brand of SD card you use too, but I'm not certain of this since I haven't ordered one yet. I want to see other opinions of it first.

73,
n9zas

 

[jackj]

gewecke, I have a PSR800 and I love it. As for it being picky about the MicroSD card brand, I haven't found that to be the case. I have an 8 gig, no-name card I bought from e-Bay that didn't work at first. I used a program called SD Card Formatter to change the format from NTFS to FAT32, 32 kB sectors and it worked fine. The scanner will NOT work using cards formatted as NTFS but it does work with either FAT or FAT32. I even tried a 32 gig card and that worked. The manual says to use the EZScan program to format the card but EZScan won't format a card it doesn't recognize.

One thing to note, the larger the card, the longer it takes the scanner to boot.

 

[gewecke]

gewecke, I have a PSR800 and I love it. As for it being picky about the MicroSD card brand, I haven't found that to be the case. I have an 8 gig, no-name card I bought from e-Bay that didn't work at first. I used a program called SD Card Formatter to change the format from NTFS to FAT32, 32 kB sectors and it worked fine. The scanner will NOT work using cards formatted as NTFS but it does work with either FAT or FAT32. I even tried a 32 gig card and that worked. The manual says to use the EZScan program to format the card but EZScan won't format a card it doesn't recognize.

One thing to note, the larger the card, the longer it takes the scanner to boot.

Hmmm... about how long does it take to boot up with your 8gb card in it?

73,
n9zas

 

[IowaGuy1603]

One thing to note, the larger the card, the longer it takes the scanner to boot.

Actually the more stuff you have on the card ----the longer it takes to boot.

Size of the card has little do to with it

 

[boatbod]

Actually the more stuff you have on the card ----the longer it takes to boot.

Size of the card has little do to with it

Not true. I can program the exact same configuration on a 2GB card and it will go through the "Checking Filesystem" operation three times as quickly as the same programming on an 8GB card.

 

[jackj]

Mine takes about 20 seconds to boot on a 8 gig card, my 2 gig card takes about 10 seconds. I never timed it but the 32 gig card must have taken around 40-45 seconds. Both my 2 gig and 8 gig cards have exactly the same configuration. Both are class 4 cards. My 32 gig card is a class 10 but I'm not sure that the scanner can take advantage of a card that fast.

 

[tilt404]

Gets some use to thinking terms of objects instead of banks and stuff. But the GRE is great since I can put so many different things into a 'bank'/scanset. Like things from several different trunk systems and conventional/analog/digital frequencies, unlike what Uniden can do. With Uniden you can just have one trunk system per bank. So that really opens up programming and managing things better on the GRE.

I keep adding and adding to my PSR800 and seems like no end to the space. I did get a 8GB card for it, class 4 in speed and have about 700 conventional frequencies in it now, along with 48 different trunk systems. I still haven't used even half of the scanlists, then there are scan sets which help to organize things even more. It took a bit of time to get used to the scansets but now I love using them.

In the software there's no limits I can see, just buttons to keep adding new objects. I read that you are only limited by your micro SD card's memory. Its been so nice to feel that way for the first time since I've owned a lot of scanners over the years and always had to remove something in order to add more. Its nice knowing I'll never have to do that again.

 

[Scannerboy1968]

I wanted to thank everyone for there responses! I believe I am going to have to get one of these, they sound awesome.
TY, Andy

 

[detroit780]

Boot time

My 32Gig card takes 58 seconds till it comes up with my passcode, after I enter the passcode it takes about 20 seconds from the time I press scan till it's scanning.

I had a cheap 16Gig memory card that would constantly crash. I formatted it with SD formatter and it lasted a bit longer but still crashed I threw it out and bought a SanDisk 32Gig. I have several SanDisk cards and none including the 2 Gig original has ever had a problem.

Mine takes about 20 seconds to boot on a 8 gig card, my 2 gig card takes about 10 seconds. I never timed it but the 32 gig card must have taken around 40-45 seconds. Both my 2 gig and 8 gig cards have exactly the same configuration. Both are class 4 cards. My 32 gig card is a class 10 but I'm not sure that the scanner can take advantage of a card that fast.

 

[jamesa53]

What is the advantage of using an SD card larger than 2GB (other than 2GB SD cards are hard to find)? Is it more recording time?

 

[detroit780]

More storage

Not much of any advantage really, it was cheap enough and I bought it. The 2 Gig card is pretty difficult to fill even with lots of recording.

But doing the math on 2 Vs. 32 would yield more storage of any kind, recordings and frequencies.

What is the advantage of using an SD card larger than 2GB (other than 2GB SD cards are hard to find)? Is it more recording time?

 

[tilt404]

I do a lot of audio recording so the 8gb card I got helps I think. Should mean I never have to worry about running out of room. For the $8 I paid for it, worth what little trouble it was for some more space.

 

[jackj]

I use the 2 gig card that came with the scanner almost exclusively. I monitor one system most of the time, my local county's P25 TRS. I record all of the fire department traffic and some times it's a month or more before I clear the recordings. I haven't even come close to filling the card. My 8 gig is just a backup for the 2 gig and it was CHEAP.