BCD436HP/BCD536HP: Question about discovery

[Gary985112]

So when I run a long Discovery session and export that Discovery session to sentinel, what's the quickest way to listen through the recordings and see what is interesting? And once I find some frequencies that may be of interest, is there a quick way to just discard of the ones that I don't care about and bulk ad the frequencies that I do want to scan to a favorites list? Just wanted to see if there was a quick way to do this. With the goal of just moving the frequencies that I like to a favorites list to listen to them more.
Thanks!!

 

[rumcajs_tr]

Generally, there is no way how to tell which frequencies from discovery hits are interesting without listening to them.
However, here is my way how to clear things up a little.
After downloading discovery run to the Sentinel, I perform these actions:

1. Delete all records with Avoid tag set to On (that means I pressed avoid button during discovery for whatever reason)
2. Delete all records with Duration equal to 0 sec or 1 sec (that means no audio recorded or only a short burst)
3. Delete all records with Duration equal to hits count (that means average recording time for each hit is less or equal to 1 sec - probably data bursts only)
4. Quickly review all records with Duration equal to your Record duration setting (that means the record duration overflow was triggered, so it might be just a constant carrier or noise on the frequency - when this is the case delete them)
5. Delete all records without CTCSS/DCS/NAC/CC (well this one is tricky, but my personal experience is that 99% of agencies do use some kind of subtone or signalling)

After this, you should have several frequencies remaining to listen to...

As for the transfer of the frequencies to new FL, I think the copy/paste works well in Sentinel. Or you can copy to excel, modify and copy back.

 

[Gary985112]

Generally, there is no way how to tell which frequencies from discovery hits are interesting without listening to them.
However, here is my way how to clear things up a little.
After downloading discovery run to the Sentinel, I perform these actions:

1. Delete all records with Avoid tag set to On (that means I pressed avoid button during discovery for whatever reason)
2. Delete all records with Duration equal to 0 sec or 1 sec (that means no audio recorded or only a short burst)
3. Delete all records with Duration equal to hits count (that means average recording time for each hit is less or equal to 1 sec - probably data bursts only)
4. Quickly review all records with Duration equal to your Record duration setting (that means the record duration overflow was triggered, so it might be just a constant carrier or noise on the frequency - when this is the case delete them)
5. Delete all records without CTCSS/DCS/NAC/CC (well this one is tricky, but my personal experience is that 99% of agencies do use some kind of subtone or signalling)

After this, you should have several frequencies remaining to listen to...

As for the transfer of the frequencies to new FL, I think the copy/paste works well in Sentinel. Or you can copy to excel, modify and copy back.

Hey thanks again for the help! I will do this. I really appreciate it!!