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Trunking question for Mot II

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Hi guys, and gals.

I am still new to scanning, and all radio communications in general. I have a qusetion for you.
I am using a BC780XLT, and have programmed all the frequencies, and talk group ids. For some reason, most likely user error, when i go to scan it locks onto one frequency and just says "id scanning". When i just listen in on a specific id everything seems to work fine(it jumps from frequency to frequncy, following the discussion), but i would like to have it automatically jump on and pick up all communications on the trunked system.
If that made any sense whatsoever, please guide me, and help me.
Thanks in advance.

Josh
 
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Trunk button pushed?

When you press scan have you also pushed the trunk button so trunk appears on the display?
 
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Set 780 to the trunking bank only by turning off all the others. Then press "search". This will allow you to hear all traffic on the system. Do you have the correct fleet map for the system. If you are not sure about that then try #8. Thats a good place to start.
 
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