ScannerSK
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With the PSR-500/600 scanners a multi-site setting of "STAT" with a set to scan all CCs setting of "No" forces the scanner to scan a different control channel for that specific system with each scan cycle.
Am I correct in saying that ONLY the PSR-500/600 type scanners have this capability?
I ordered a Uniden BCD996P2 only to find out that all enabled sites have to be scanned with each scan cycle. I ordered a TRX-2 only to find out that Whistler has removed the STAT setting from their new line of scanners so again all control channels have to be scanned with each scan cycle.
The reason this is important to me is that 95% of the channels I monitor are on a county system which only requires 1 control channel to monitor everything on the system while on the other hand 5% of the channels I monitor are on a state system which requires upwards of 13 control channels to capture all the channels on the system I monitor (which towers are carrying which talkgroups vary from day to day so 13 control channels are required).
With the PSR-500/600 series of scanners, my scanner spends an equal amount of time scanning the county system as it does the state system. With all other scanners, it takes around 13 times longer to scan the state system which only contains about 5% of my desired channels to monitor. Maybe if 95% of the channels I monitor were on the state system this would not be an issue however they are not and I would prefer spending most of my time checking the county system which contains 95% of the channels I monitor.
Am I missing something here or does the PSR-500/600 type scanners really have an advantage no other scanner offers?
To try and do the same to any other scanner (from what I understand) requires jimmy rigging things which introduce whole new sets of issues that have to be dealt with.
Will any scanner manufacturer make another scanner that has the capability of scanning a different site/control channel (out of a list of sites/control channels) with each scan cycle?
Shawn
Am I correct in saying that ONLY the PSR-500/600 type scanners have this capability?
I ordered a Uniden BCD996P2 only to find out that all enabled sites have to be scanned with each scan cycle. I ordered a TRX-2 only to find out that Whistler has removed the STAT setting from their new line of scanners so again all control channels have to be scanned with each scan cycle.
The reason this is important to me is that 95% of the channels I monitor are on a county system which only requires 1 control channel to monitor everything on the system while on the other hand 5% of the channels I monitor are on a state system which requires upwards of 13 control channels to capture all the channels on the system I monitor (which towers are carrying which talkgroups vary from day to day so 13 control channels are required).
With the PSR-500/600 series of scanners, my scanner spends an equal amount of time scanning the county system as it does the state system. With all other scanners, it takes around 13 times longer to scan the state system which only contains about 5% of my desired channels to monitor. Maybe if 95% of the channels I monitor were on the state system this would not be an issue however they are not and I would prefer spending most of my time checking the county system which contains 95% of the channels I monitor.
Am I missing something here or does the PSR-500/600 type scanners really have an advantage no other scanner offers?
To try and do the same to any other scanner (from what I understand) requires jimmy rigging things which introduce whole new sets of issues that have to be dealt with.
Will any scanner manufacturer make another scanner that has the capability of scanning a different site/control channel (out of a list of sites/control channels) with each scan cycle?
Shawn
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