Thanks for all your help. I added the settings recommended by KD4YGG and have two MOT type II/P25 sites uploaded (MKE and Waukesha) and for now added all city GRP's.
I do have two questions.
1. Although I have all OASIS groups loaded (in two systems), at times I get a Talkgroup numerical code (eg. 2325) instead of the programmed "West Allis Police Dispatch". I have noticed it gives MKE system numerical codes when the scanner is scanning Waukesha and vice versa. Any suggestions?
2. I live in Brookfield. If I just want to scan City/Town Brookfield, Elm Grove and Wauwatosa and temporarily skip the rest, how do I accomplish this?
Thanks in advance.
Yes, what KD4YGG said would accomplish what you're trying to do.
Create a Milwaukee County system with 853.525 as the control channel. It wouldn't hurt to also program the alternate control channels just in case - 853.1625, 853.6125, 853.6375. Use ID SCANNING mode, not ID SEARCH, very important - otherwise your scanner will stop on everything it hears, not just the specific channels you're interested in.
Under this system, store the TGID's you're interested in, Wauwatosa, so mostly:
1073 431 DMCWUPDDISPWauwatosa Police Dispatch Law Dispatch
1075 433 DMCWUPDTAC1Wauwatosa Police Tac 1 Law Tac
1077 435 DMCWUPDTAC2Wauwatosa Police Tac 2 Law Tac
1079 437 DMCWUPDTAC3Wauwatosa Police Tac 3 Law Tac
1081 439 DMCWUPDTAC4Wauwatosa Police Tac 4 Law Tac
1083 43b DMCWUPDTAC5Wauwatosa Police Tac 5 Law Tac
1085 43d DMCWUPDTAC6Wauwatosa Police Tac 6 Law Tac
1087 43f DMCWUPDAGWauwatosa Police Announcement Law Dispatch
1089 441 DMCWUPDTAC7Wauwatosa Police Tac 7 Law Tac
1111 457 DMCWUWU1Wauwatosa Citywide Public Works
2161 871 DMCWUFDDISPWauwatosa Fire Dispatch Fire Dispatch
2163 873 DMCWUFDTAC1Wauwatosa Fire Tac 1 Station Alerting Fire Dispatch
2165 875 DMCWUFDTAC2Wauwatosa Fire Tac 2 Officers/Inspectors Fire-Talk
2167 877 DMCWUFDTAC3Wauwatosa Fire Tac 3 Fire-Tac
2169 879 DMCWUFDAGWauwatosa Fire Announcement Fire Dispatch
1357 54d DMCFDPAGCCounty Fire Page Area C Fire Dispatch
2051 803 DMCFIRECALLCounty Fire Calling Interop
2053 805 DMCFIRE1BCounty Fire 1 Bravo Interop
2055 807 DMCFIRE2BCounty Fire 2 Bravo Fire-Tac
2057 809 DMCFIRE3BCounty Fire 3 Bravo Fire-Tac
2181 885 DMCFIRE4BCounty Fire 4 Bravo Fire-Tac
2183 887 DMCFIRE5BCounty Fire 5 Bravo Fire-Tac
Create a separate Waukesha County P25 system with 853.7125 as the control channel. Add the alts just in case - 853.1375, 853.350, 853.6875. Again, use ID SCANNING mode, not ID SEARCH.
Under this system, store the TGID's you're interested in, Brookfield/Elm Grove, so mostly:
58909 County Fire Page/Alert Fire Dispatch
58910 County Fire Dispatch A Fire Dispatch
58911 County Fire Dispatch B Fire Dispatch
58912 County Fire Dispatch C Fire Dispatch
58914 County Area 1 Law Dispatch Law Dispatch
58920 County Area 1 Law Ops Law Talk
58928 County Fire 1 Fire-Tac
58929 County Fire 2 Fire-Tac
58930 County Fire 3 Fire-Tac
58931 County Fire 4 Fire-Tac
58932 County Fire 5 Fire-Tac
58933 County Fire Call Fire Dispatch
58934 County Law Enforcement Tac 1 Law Talk
58935 County Law Enforcement Tac 2 Law Talk
58936 County Law Enforcement Tac 3 Law Talk
58937 County Law Enforcement Tac 4 Law Talk
58942 Flight Comms EMS Dispatch
58101 Brookfield Wastewater 1 Public Works
58102 Brookfield Water 1 Public Works
58103 Brookfield Emergency Management 1 Emergency Ops
58104 Brookfield Emergency Management 2 Emergency Ops
58105 Brookfield Fire Tac 1 Fire-Tac
58106 Brookfield Public Works
58107 Brookfield Park and Rec 1 Public Works
58108 Brookfield Public Works
58109 Brookfield Police Tac 1 Law Tac
58110 Brookfield Public Works
58111 Brookfield Highway 1 Public Works
58112 Brookfield Police Tac 2 Law Tac
58660 Town of Brookfield Administration Public Works
58661 Town of Brookfield Fire Tac 1 Fire-Tac
58662 Town of Brookfield Fire Tac 2 Fire-Tac
58663 Town of Brookfield Parks Public Works
58664 Town of Brookfield Police Tac 1 Law Tac
58665 Town of Brookfield Police Tac 2 Law Tac
58666 Town of Brookfield DPW 1 Public Works
58667 Town of Brookfield Sanitary Public Works
58401 Elm Grove DPW / Fire Paging Multi-Dispatch
58402 Elm Grove Fire Dispatch Fire Dispatch
58403 Elm Grove Fire Tac 1 Fire-Tac
58404 Elm Grove Fire Tac 2 Fire-Tac
58405 Elm Grove Police Dispatch Law Dispatch
58406 Elm Grove Police Tac 1 Law Tac
58407 Elm Grove DPW Public Works
It would be a good idea to store the systemwide talk groups under
both sites for mutual aid type events:
1301 OAGTAC1 (Incident Stabilization) Interop
1303 OAGTAC2 Interop
1305 OAGTAC3 Interop
1307 OAGTAC4 Interop
1365 OAAIRMD1 Air Medical 1 EMS-Talk
1367 OAAIRMD2 Air Medical 2 EMS-Talk
1371 OAIFERN2 Fire Dispatch
1403 OALAWCALL Interop
2059 OAIFERN Fire Dispatch
5000 OACHASE Interop
5005 OAGTAC5 Interop
5006 OAGTAC6 Interop
5007 OAGTAC7 Interop
5008 OAGTAC8 Interop
5009 OAGTAC9 Interop
5010 OAGTAC10 Interop
5011 OAGTAC11 Interop
5012 OAGTAC12 Interop
If you want to be able to listen to other agencies when you're interested in listening to more, there are a few ways you can accomplish that.
1) Use AVOID on specific channels to temporarily skip these other channels for now (very time consuming process though)
2) Create another profile on your scanner. One for your local interests and one that has everything.
3) Create an additional Milwaukee County system and Waukesha County system with everything in them. Then leave those systems on AVOID until you want them.
You may already know this, but I would also program 154.430 in a separate conventional system since City/Town of Brookfield and Elm Grove FD all tone out on that frequency.