@trentbob Sorry if this topic has worn everybody down, but I have read tons of RR posts, and still have no idea what what the
BASELINE best filter setting is. I have no idea how to apply it to multiple favorites lists without having to edit EVERY list. I have opened the HPD and HPE files to look for global replacements.
I may be totally missing the target. I can suck up tweaking each favorite list, but not knowing the optimal baseline is shooting from a moving platform. Since the implementation of filters, it is so slow that I can read each scanned conventional frequency on the SDS100 screen. That is how slow scanning had become.
Can anyone help with a good launch point for filters and how to deploy that setting throughout the lists?
To answer your question specifically. Just leave everything as default which means all objects are set to Global. Global filters are set to normal by default, you can kind of look at normal like it's a universal or overall general filter. So by doing nothing to your radio with regards to filters, that's where your radio stands. Filter requirements are going to be different for everybody depending on your location and RF environment. What works for one person doesn't mean it's going to work for you. There is no standard or preset guidelines.
The global filters are used to sample reception real-time on the radio while you assess RSSI, noise and error rates. It's very easy and quick to go into settings and go right to global filters just to sample a system or conventional frequency. If you find a certain filter works better than another then go back into global filters and return it to normal filter, don't leave it on that new filter setting as it may compromise other objects who work well on default or normal.
After you return Global to normal then go into the site or sites of the system you sampled and add that filter you found out to be more favorable on your global sampling to the sites, If it's a conventional frequency go to department options of that frequency and apply the filter you found to be more favorable in your global sampling to that department. It will affect every conventional frequency in that department, you cannot add a filter to just one frequency but it often works out as all the frequencies in that department usually call for the same filter.
Now you will have every object still on normal filter because that's what global is set to but the system or conventional frequency you went directly in and changed will now be on the new filter permanently, not global or normal.
You're really sampling wide normal, invert, and wide invert because you already know what normal does as it is default. You can try no filter at all and see if that helps. You can also toggle function 7 while sitting on a conventional frequency, sometimes ifx will help, if it doesn't toggle It Off. Avoid the auto filters as they sample every object with every filter and slow scanning way down and you never know what filter did the trick anyway.
I'm sure people all have their own way of doing it but I found this to be very consistent and accurate because you are using real-time results of RSSI, noise and error rate.
Make sure to hook up to Sentinel or whatever and transfer the card information into your profile first thing so as to preserve any changes you made directly on the radio regarding the filters. Use a pencil and paper when you're recording RSSI, noise and error rates while doing your sampling and make sure to put the filter indicator on your display.
Once you get the hang of it, it goes very quick and easy.
