"V" Folders versus Banks, Systems, etc...

[brian95008]

Hi all,

Can someone please explain the difference between a "V Folder" as described in the new PSR-500 manual versus the standard "Bank" or "System"? They seem the same to me ----- turn the V folder on or off depending what geographical area you are in just as you would a System or Bank.

Thanks in advance and happy scanning!

Brian
Campbell, CA

 

[stevecubfan]

v folders

the radio shack pro 96 has 11 v folders you can configure the way you wish with 10 banks in each folder. so it's like 11 scanners in 1.

 

[UPMan]

V-folders give you multiple complete scanner configurations. You can have up to 11 different configurations in the PRO-96, and any one of those configurations can be used at a time. You can't turn on 2 V-folders at the same time.

Systems are individual radio system definitions (like a Motorola system or a Conventional system). The BCD396T can have up to 400 systems including up to 6000 channels and each system uses only as many channels as you need. All systems and channels are available for scanning all the time and can be turned on/off individually for scanning.

Banks are set lists of channels that can be turned on/off. Typically banked scanners have 10 banks, each bank is of a fixed length (for example, 100 channels per bank).

 

[sacravitae]

Things are a bit different with the new scanners like the bct396 and the psr-500. They no longer use banks with channels ,where you may have 50 channels in a bank and might only use 20 of them to program a system, wasting the other 30. Now you will build systems using only the memory necessary for the system you are programing into the scanner. In addition to that ,the psr-500 will have 21 V-Scanners ( Virtual Scanners ) which is like having 21 fully programed scanners available in a section of the scanners memory, any one of which can be called up based on your need or desire. I think this gives a decent basic explanation, and hope that it will be helpful for you. Perhaps others will elaborate or offer points that I may have left out.
Ken

 

[wa5jot]

Banks and channels

I use banks (and channels) on my Pro-96 to keep different departments separate from each other. That makes it easy to select any combination at any time, in spite of the obvious limitations of fixed banks/channels. My question is - what would be the equivalent procedure on the PSR-500? I'm not talking about V folders. This is the only question I need answered prior to placing an order.

bob b

Pro-43
Pro-2067
Pro-96
AR-8000 (AOR)

 

[mikey60]

I use banks (and channels) on my Pro-96 to keep different departments separate from each other. That makes it easy to select any combination at any time, in spite of the obvious limitations of fixed banks/channels. My question is - what would be the equivalent procedure on the PSR-500? I'm not talking about V folders. This is the only question I need answered prior to placing an order.

By my understanding in reading page 20 of the manual on the FCC site, you would organize those into what GRE calls "Scan Lists". These scan lists are similar in operation to the banks on older scanners in that you can turn them on and off with the press of a button. It looks like there are 20 scan lists though, as opposed to the 10 banks that most current model scanners have.

Mike

 

[wa5jot]

Thanks, Mike!

Mike,
I was sure there would be a practical way to to simulate banks/channels, but it sounds like the solution is even more versatile. And right in line with the list of neat new features for GRE scanners. Thanks for the quick reply.

bob

 

[kikito]

Another related thing that's more versatile than the Uniden's is being able to search for something by tag or frequency, not to mention, you can also directly and instantly access a programmed channel or frequency if you remember it's memory number i.e. 04-0115, etc.