SDS100/SDS200: Scanning non-selected favorite lists

[HogDriver]

SDS100, I have 2 favorite lists assigned the same Quick key/Number tag because the individual list, if combined, would be larger than 1 MB and would not be able to scan as it's too large. My issue is that even though I have the Quick Key number disabled so as to not scan it, It is still stopping on a particular Department that is in one of those lists.

One list called Indiana A-M, Assigned QK2
Second list called Indiana N-Z, Assigned QK2

QK2 Is selected to Not Monitor but Tipton Co. which is in my N-Z list, is still coming in.

Any ideas why?

 

[jtwalker]

Can’t have same FL quick key assigned to more than one FL. Well maybe you can assign it but you will get undesirable results.

 

[ofd8001]

The first thing I'd suggest is giving each Favorites List its own unique Favorites List Quick Key so you don't run afoul of the parameters.

The next thing I'd suggest is looking at your Favorites Lists for duplicates and other stuff that might be increasing the size of the FLs. I have a Favorites List for Indiana which includes Indianapolis and its size is like 264 KB. (That said, you may have a boatload of Radio IDs, different from talkgroup IDs, which may be clogging up the file size.)

The last thing I'd offer is double checking to be sure you are NOT scanning the same sites in two different Favorites Lists. That is inefficient scanning. For example, if you are on FL2 which has Floyds Knobs site, listening for New Albany (N), it'll skip over Clark County (C) which is in FL1. So you miss Clark County traffic. But then it goes to FL1, it'll miss New Albany.

Then there's no telling what happens with ISP or any of the statewide talkgroups.

(Last thought. . . If you got FLQK 1 turned off, and that's the only FLs you got, you should see "Nothing to Scan".)

 

[hiegtx]

Can’t have same FL quick key assigned to more than one FL. Well maybe you can assign it but you will get undesirable results

Exactly. You can't assign the same QK to two lists. If you try to assign an already selected QK via the scanner's menu, you'll get an error warning.

Sentinel does not give you a warning when you duplicate a Favorite list Quick Key, but it will not actually load into the scanner.

SDS100, I have 2 favorite lists assigned the same Quick key/Number tag because the individual list, if combined, would be larger than 1 MB and would not be able to scan as it's too large. My issue is that even though I have the Quick Key number disabled so as to not scan it, It is still stopping on a particular Department that is in one of those lists.

One list called Indiana A-M, Assigned QK2
Second list called Indiana N-Z, Assigned QK2

QK2 Is selected to Not Monitor but Tipton Co. which is in my N-Z list, is still coming in.

Any ideas why?

As stated, yes you can duplicate a quick key in Sentinel without a warning. (You do get the wrning trying to duplicate it via the scanner's keyboard.

What's happening is that when Sentinel sends your programming to the scanner, the QK for the first list being downloaded is present.

But, for any additional Favorites assigned the Quick Key, they will actually load in the scanner with a blank quick key. So, if your second list is set as "off" using the quick key when you created it, Sentinel strips the second use of the same key. If that was the only way that you had that list set not to scan , using the quick key, once there is no QK (because it was deleted when you loaded the second list, using the duplicate key) there is nothing left (in other words, no QK) telling the scanner not to scan that list by default.

You'll have to give your second list a different key. What about using key "11" for your first list, and "12" for the second? Would that make sense to you?

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

QK2 Is selected to Not Monitor but Tipton Co. which is in my N-Z list, is still coming in.

Any ideas why?

I'd suspect an inadvertent FL duplicate with no FQK assigned. Happens from time to time. Use Sentinel or your programming app of choice to check to dups