I have a list of MDC ID associated with my fire department, however when putting the list together in CPS I could not add more than 50 aliases per list. In my example, one FD using their own dedicated fire dispatch channel has way more than 50 radios. My questions is what is everyone else doing? Can you make a list of lists? Do you pick the most frequently used aliases?
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We don't use alias. Our MDC ID relates to our agency. The only Alais in the radio are for dispatch consoles.
brndnstffrd
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I've always just made multiple lists.
I have multiple lists going as well, i.e.
Town A FD/EMS
Town A DPW
Town B Fire
Town B EMS
Town B DPW
Regional
In this circumstance, Town B Fire has 7 engines, a tower, a rescue truck, 2 utilities, all with mobiles and portables, plus 19 officers with portables and two town chief vehicles. It wasn't hard fill a list of 50 aliases.
brndnstffrd
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Unless I'm remembering wrong, the lists are just used for outgoing calls. It is the outgoing contacts list associated with that specific channel. On receive it pools all of them together. It shouldn't matter when receiving which list a radio is in, IE: On Channel 1 you chose List 1. A radio in List 3 transmits, your radio should still decode that ID and alias, however if you want to place an outgoing Selective Call, only radios in List 1 will be displayed when you go to send the call when on that channel.
From what I can tell, the same list is used for both. So you could only selective call what is in the list and out of town radios not programmed in that particular list would not be decoded. So I could selective call any of town B's fire portables on it's dispatch channel, but town A's chiefs portable, while in Town A's list, would not be decoded. That is at least my understanding of what is going on.
RKG
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Correct. For "decode" (calls received), the radio will display any list that has the received ID. The only list you need to point to in the governing personality is for "encode" (outgoing calls, such as page or sel call).
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