Hi Al,

Thanks for all the explanations!

Let's see if I got this right, ok?

First, for Miami-Beach and Miami City I program all the following into
one bank:

854.9625, 855.2125, 855.4625, 855.7125, 859.78750, 859.91250, 860.78750
and 860.91250.

and I tag each of them as "MO" for Motorola Trunking.

I ignore all the alternate control channels listed as "blue" on the
webpages you listed, right? (but then why would that be?! would I not
need them also?)

Since I want to listen to everything that is going on, I do not enter
and talkgroups IDs.

Should I want to listen to Miami-Dade *COUNTY* police I program EDACS
into another, separate bank. But which ones?! Are police "LG & Fire"
or "Public Safety"?

Also, say something big happens, how do Miami-City, Miami-Beach and
Miami-Dade County cops talk to each other?!

Any further pointers would really be appreciated!

Thanks,

VS

PS: I do not think that the hotel frequencies were trunked, but since I
was running only the Singnal Stalker mode I suppose I might not have
noticed. My impression was that there was no distinction made between
any talkgroups, pretty much everything was happening everywhere.