Using ARC500 after you relocate to program a Whistler 1040? (Trunked systems.)

[Chris321zyx]

Let’s say I relocate to an area I’m not familiar with, meaning I don’t know every town, village, city, township, or nook and cranny of the place I’ve moved to. How do I know which locations to select in the left-hand column in ARC500 when programming a Whistler 1040? More specifically, is there an efficient way to figure out the best locations to choose from that column—other than memorizing every nook and cranny of the new county I’ve relocated to? The picture below is just a screenshot from the internet, so you have an idea of what I’m referring to.

 

[jtwalker]

Programming and using a scanner is a hobby. I would program just about everything of mild interest and all the sites in your county and in neighboring counties, then see what you can actually receive. Trim out the sites you can’t actually receive, and the TGs that aren’t really of interest. Extra TGs don’t really slow down scanning (at least not with Uniden scanners).

Rinse & repeat using what you learned in first pass.