XG-75m / M7300 Scan

[LowderK]

Ok I have a XG-75 / M7300 I have a trunked system in it and its working as it should but is there a way I can add a Conventional P25 700 channel into the scan list so I can scan both the trunked system and about 6 conventional channels...? I under stand there is a Custom Scan list but I was lost after trying to configure this....
thanks in advance

 

[K2NEC]

Nope

 

[LowderK]

Well dang …. I guess motorola beats harris on this

 

[K2NEC]

I believe the XL series might solve this

 

[nikronzo]

Make a custom scan list, put in TG members and Conv Members and then slave that scan list to the P25 trunking system under systems. Scan is gonna be spotty because its jumping between Conv and Trunking, youll miss traffic but it will work, XG/XL doesnt matter.

 

[BigLebowski]

Yeah.. the XG series introduced “Custom Scan” where you can scan ONE trunked system and a few conventional channels together.

You would need to set up your trunked and conventional systems, then create your custom scan list, then go back to the trunked system in question and select the custom scan list.

I believe it only works if you are sitting on the trunked system.

 

[K2NEC]

I believe it only works if you are sitting on the trunked system.

Yes I believe this was the caveat, I could never get it to truly work properly

 

[LowderK]

Think you ..... I will try over the next week and see how it does there is only 3 TG's on the trunk system Im scanning and will only be 6 conventional channels

 

[adamr368]

This may help -

Trunked/Conventional Scanning
Mixed System/Zone Channel Mapping

COMPATIBILITY
• Trunked/Conventional Scanning is compatible with the following radios:
M7200, XG-75M/M7300, P7200 Series, P7300 Series, P5200 Series, P5100 Series, P5400 Series,
Unity XG-100P, Unity XG-100M (CH-100 and CH-721), XG-75P, XG-25P
• Mixed System/Zone Mapping is compatible with the following radios:
o Unity XG-100P Portable radio
o Unity XG-100M Mobile radio (CH-100 and CH-721)

 

[snoopyII]

Yes I believe this was the caveat, I could never get it to truly work properly

I could never get it to work properly either. Harris' implementation of Custom Scanlists always seemed a bit wonky to me. It may have worked for some, but never really did the job for me. Nikronzo is right on, it's spotty and misses a lot of traffic.

 

[TDR-94]

It was supposedly one particular agency many years ago that requested the ability to monitor a conventional channel while the radio was currently on a trunked system. Why they (whichever former company prior to L3H) allowed an entire systems worth of conventional channels to be added is a mystery, since it makes the feature about worthless if trying to scan between a trunked system and anything more than 1 conventional channel.

Each additional conventional channel just slows down the scan that much more to the point of missing most traffic on the conventional channels, if more than 5 are added. The XG-100P is even worse with this feature. It seems to scan even slower than the other series of radios using this method. From time to time it gets buggy and won't even scan the conventional list at all.

Scanners were designed for scanning. Commercial radios scan slowly in comparison and ideally are only meant to scan a few channels. The military radios are even slower and it's one of the reasons why they are limited to scanning 10-13 channels (NETS) total.