I’ve searched the forums for this issue, but it’s late at night and my eyes are glossed over! Please forgive my ignorance, as I’ve only had my new SDS100 for a few days.
I am using Sentinel to create a few Favorites Lists. I am in Houston County, AL and need to monitor local stuff on AIRS. When I try to add the local AIRS talkgroups, it pulls in every other list from every other county in the state. On the left side of my screen, in the tree, I am right-clicking on HOUSTON COUNTY-DOTHAN AND selecting Appendix to Favorites List, but it’s pulling in everything on that branch (if that’s the correct terminology). I don’t want to wait on the scanner to run through 66 other counties. What am I doing wrong
As rmason has noted, when using Sentinel to append a “statewide” or large regional system to a Favorites list file, the append process pulls all of the sites for the system, along with whichever sites and departments you chose. Also as noted, you can deal with the excess sites either by deleting the ones out of range and/or not of interest, or setting the excess sites to avoid. Your third choice, using location control for the newly created list, after setting your location and desired range in your profile, will prompt the scanner to ignore the ones out of range.
Note that, after your initial “append”, you can go back into the main database and select additional ‘departments’ to append. As long as the name of the system (in your favorites list) matches the name of the system in the database, the additional append will not add all of the sites a second time. Note that after your initial “append”, if you deleted the extra sites to reduce the clutter, you cannot select and add a site to your list.
As already noted, your best tool to import sites and departments is to sign up as a Premium Subscriber and then use software such as ProScan to select and import only the sites and departments you want. Using ProScan for importing, you can go back and add additional sites if needed, without grabbing every site. The ARC536 software package can handle the import process as well. However, I prefer ProScan because of its wide range of features, including its capabilities of handling programming for a wide range of Uniden models, both the current models as well as many other, older models, that were discontinued years ago. Also, for the $50 registration fee, you get
all its features, including logging and virtual control (controlling your scanner with your PC).
For the ARC-software, the “Basic” version allows importing and logging, but without virtual control and other features, for a cost of about $40. If you want those additional options with the ARC software, you must, instead, purchase the “Pro” version for about $70. With ProScan,
all those features are available at the $50 purchase price.
Both programs have a 30 day free trial available, and both include any updates to the software that are released after your initial purchase.
