thank you. under set service types i did not see "marine vhf." i believe somewhere i saw an option for "coast guard" or "marine." is there a "marine vhf" option, or is it just me imagining? the new uniden scanners are great. they are more like computers than scanners.....with that comes a period of learning. gone are the days of simply entering a freq and scanning...for the most part.
In Sentinel, click on the main US Database, near the top of the left side window. Click on US to expand it to the list of states.
Now, click on your state.
Next, find your county & click on that to expand.
Under your county, click on the Nationwide systems folder.
In the right side window, you'll see a list of the contents of that folder.
One of them is
Maritime USA
Click on that system so that it's contents are shown in the right side menu.
Looking at the list of frequencies, you'll see that the normal Vhf Marine channels have a service type of "Transportation". Make sure you enable that type.
Looking at the rest of them, for port operations and ship-to-shore, those have a service type of "Other", and 'Coast Guard Only" uses the "Federal" service type.
If using a Favorites list, you can <right><Click> on that 'Maritime USA' system & append it to the Favorites list of your choice. Just be sure that the listed service types are enabled in your Profile.
While the x36HP scanners (436HP & 536HP) are set up to use Favorites lists and location, at your option, you still have the ability to simply one or more frequencies of your choice into a Favorites list and scan it. Manually adding a frequency gives it the default Service type of 'Custom 1', so that would need to be enabled. Or, simply change the service type to the corresponding service type that it is used for.