On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:42:51 -0700, Evan Platt
said in rec.radio.scanner:

Ok 2 more questions: There's banks (100 channels per) then there's TG
banks of 20 talkgroups. I can't seem to see a way to scan only that 1
talkgroup bank

Turn off the other banks. (The numbers showing during "Scan" are the
banks turned on. The turned off banks show as ".".)

Now here's the interesting questions - the 95 will do control channel
only mode which is great. Can I put multiple control channels in the
same bank?

Most systems have more than one control channel, so yes. Can you put
the control channels for multiple systems in one bank? No.


Now I realize since there's only one list of talkgroups for
the radio

Nope. One list of TGs for each bank.

if say on system 1 talkgroup 12345 is the Police which I
want to listen to but on system 2, talkgroup 12345 is the dog catcher
which I could care less about, it would stop on that talkgroup.

Not if bank 2 were turned off. (Remember, 1 system/bank.)

I'm guessing it wouldn't as based on an experiment I just did, if
there's traffic at all on the control channel, even if it doesn't
match any ID"s in the list, the scanner listens.

But won't stop if the bank is closed. (Function-5 toggles between
closed and open.)

I put a WX channel in
the same bank, and it took a while before it picked it up.

It scans the control channel(s) and has to decode each TG before
deciding to skip to the next channel in that bank. I tried the same
thing - putting a wx channel into a bank that scans a pretty heavily
used Motorola type II trunked system and it took approximately 1-1/4
seconds to return to the wx channel after I hit the scan button (with
a closed bank and only 1 TG not locked out.)