Newbie - Entering/understand Trunked Freqs/Fleet Maps
 

I am slowly picking up a few things about trunking but still slow. I bought
a Pro94 tonight and finally got some Trunked Frequencies entered(I may have
missed some). I am not getting as much traffic as I would have expected. I
read something about Fleet Maps but struggling to choose a correct one. I
seem to get something on the default E1P1 but now up to E1P2(wow). I don't
when to stop. Is there a cheat sheet for my area of Beaumont, Texas????

Manual says to press Trunk, then Scan, the Search and that just confuses the
heck out of me since I was thinking this is a lot of key presses just to
scan. As you can tell, I am still learning. I suspect the hardway.

Any tips, pointers, suggestions would be appreciated.

P.S. My old scanner became obsolete due to Trunking.

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Mickey A

In addition to the queston below, I was wondering why I can't enter Trunk
frequencies between 810.000 and 824.000 that are listed in my book. I always
get an error. The only other ones that were allowed were the repeater
frequencies. That seemed odd.
"Mickey A" wrote in message
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I am slowly picking up a few things about trunking but still slow. I bought
a Pro94 tonight and finally got some Trunked Frequencies entered(I may have
missed some). I am not getting as much traffic as I would have expected. I
read something about Fleet Maps but struggling to choose a correct one. I
seem to get something on the default E1P1 but now up to E1P2(wow). I don't
when to stop. Is there a cheat sheet for my area of Beaumont, Texas????

Manual says to press Trunk, then Scan, the Search and that just confuses the
heck out of me since I was thinking this is a lot of key presses just to
scan. As you can tell, I am still learning. I suspect the hardway.

Any tips, pointers, suggestions would be appreciated.

P.S. My old scanner became obsolete due to Trunking.

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Mickey A

most likely because that part of the scanner is blocked due to FCC
regulation (no cell phone listening)

"Mickey A" wrote in message
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In addition to the queston below, I was wondering why I can't enter Trunk
frequencies between 810.000 and 824.000 that are listed in my book. I
always
get an error. The only other ones that were allowed were the repeater
frequencies. That seemed odd.
"Mickey A" wrote in message
...
I am slowly picking up a few things about trunking but still slow. I
bought
a Pro94 tonight and finally got some Trunked Frequencies entered(I may
have
missed some). I am not getting as much traffic as I would have expected. I
read something about Fleet Maps but struggling to choose a correct one. I
seem to get something on the default E1P1 but now up to E1P2(wow). I don't
when to stop. Is there a cheat sheet for my area of Beaumont, Texas????

Manual says to press Trunk, then Scan, the Search and that just confuses
the
heck out of me since I was thinking this is a lot of key presses just to
scan. As you can tell, I am still learning. I suspect the hardway.

Any tips, pointers, suggestions would be appreciated.

P.S. My old scanner became obsolete due to Trunking.

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Mickey A

Mick, if I may. Check the Yahoo trunk tracking groups. They are loaded
with help from fellow users.
It not like news groups, it's much more concentrated on a particular
subject.

Mickey A wrote:

I am slowly picking up a few things about trunking but still slow. I bought
a Pro94 tonight and finally got some Trunked Frequencies entered(I may have
missed some). I am not getting as much traffic as I would have expected. I
read something about Fleet Maps but struggling to choose a correct one. I
seem to get something on the default E1P1 but now up to E1P2(wow). I don't
when to stop. Is there a cheat sheet for my area of Beaumont, Texas????

Manual says to press Trunk, then Scan, the Search and that just confuses the
heck out of me since I was thinking this is a lot of key presses just to
scan. As you can tell, I am still learning. I suspect the hardway.

Any tips, pointers, suggestions would be appreciated.

P.S. My old scanner became obsolete due to Trunking.

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Mickey A