Question regarding BC 245

[kg4ekc]

When you program in Trunked Frequencies can you put in more than one group per section. Let me explain, I have three sets of Tower groups close by the house. Each set has their own set of control frequencies. One set of frequencies takes up a full group. The other two are much smaller and would fit into a group by themselves. But, each has it's own control frequency and I have not grouped them together. I Can not find the information in my manual. Any help would be appreciated

Thanks,

KG4EKC

 

[mciupa]

It's easy to miss in the manual as it only skims that subject.

On page 39, (about halfway) the manual states that

You can program only one trunking system in each bank of your scanner.

The 245 will latch on to the strongest control channel,so in order to get the benefit of monitoring all talkgroups it would be wise to set up three separate banks (because they have different control channels per tower site.)
You could always fill in blank channels in the other banks with non-trunk
area freq that you are interested in. When trunk activity is quiet, then
it will automatically switch over to those non-trunked.
This may seem extreme devoting 90 of your 300 channels to that
trunk system. But where I live, I do this with four tower sites(South,North,East,West) See this example for what I must program

http://www.radioreference.com/modules.php?name=TRSDB&sid=738

I hope space isn't an issue for you, I've worked around it by utilizing
my suggestion.

 

[kg4ekc]

Thanks

I thought that was what the manual suggested. I also noticed that if I put in two groups is one bank it would keep hitting on a 800 frequency like it was not trunked.

Thank you for your help. Most of the stuff by me is 800 now any way so I can put some of the VHF or UHF stuff in those areas.

KG4EKC