I have a pro-95 and didn't see this anywhere in the manual (if I
missed it, please LMK!). I see the ID Hold feature - great for if you
hear a good call or incident and want to monitor it. But say I have a
system programmed in, and 15 groups and the group is in closed mode.
How can I go through each talkgroup? i.e. the equivalent of manual
mode on a conventional system? I want to scroll through the list of
talkgroups and then find the one I want - not have to wait for it to
come active.

Thanks.

Evan
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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:50:15 -0700, n wrote:

That is a misfeature on the Pro-95. You must wait for the talkgroup
to come up before you can only monitor that TG. The only other way is
to have a bank with only those TG(s) programmed in closed mode. if you
have empty banks this shouldn't be a problem.

Oh wow.

Time to return the 95.

Just kidding.

That's a shame. Great radio otherwise!

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 - is this what you're referring to? or actual banks?

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? Now I realize since there's only one list of talkgroups for
the radio, 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. But
would this work?

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

Evan
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I program the different talkgroups into different banks
(Same freqs in each bank in closed mode)

I want to listen to Police, turn on bank 1
Fire bank 2
EMS 3
Public works 4
etc...

WORKS VERY WELL


"Evan Platt" wrote in message
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On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:50:15 -0700, n wrote:

That is a misfeature on the Pro-95. You must wait for the talkgroup
to come up before you can only monitor that TG. The only other way is
to have a bank with only those TG(s) programmed in closed mode. if you
have empty banks this shouldn't be a problem.

Oh wow.

Time to return the 95.

Just kidding.

That's a shame. Great radio otherwise!

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 - is this what you're referring to? or actual banks?

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? Now I realize since there's only one list of talkgroups for
the radio, 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. But
would this work?

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

Evan
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To reply, remove TheObvious from my e-mail address.

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.)