Batboard

Now that we have this thing programmed, there is this issue about scanning.

1) Can you scan more than 16 "personallities"?
2) If so, how?
3) Is there a way of linking scan list?

Basically, I would like to scan more than 16 channels at a time.

Thanks!
John

If the 3500 is like the 3000, AS etc, 16 is it per zone, or channel.

What you can do is setup 16 channels to scan PER channel, but you are still only scanning 16 at a time. For instance, you can program channel one to scan 1-16, then if you turn the channel to 2, you can scan 17-32 etc.

Personally, I have my radio setup to scan the channels per zone, so whatever zone you go into, it will scan just those channels.

Acually, I was running that concept through my head and trying to figure the best way to set it up. Guess now I should try and put it to paper so I can pass it on to the programmer. Thanks, I think that puts me on the right track now.

twosocks wrote:Acually, I was running that concept through my head and trying to figure the best way to set it up. Guess now I should try and put it to paper so I can pass it on to the programmer. Thanks, I think that puts me on the right track now.

If you can scan 16 channels, then why can my XTS3000 only scan 10?? Both trunked AND conventional----just 10.

My MTX8000 did 15 conventional and 10 trunked.

What did you do to make your radios scan 16??

-Josh

no motorola radio scans more than total of 16 ch,per zone. this is a motorola thing it is there opinion that you really cant scan more than 16ch without missing something on hang time.

My x9000 scan's 64 channels

I could understand that if you have pri scan enabled. It would be nice if they made an option to go from pri scan to "all modes" scan or something like that..

Motorola limits scanning for a couple reasons.

Conventional scan is 16 channel max on 99% of their radios due to hang time issues and the chance of missing calls. You can have plenty of 16 channel lists, just not more than 16 scanned at a time

Trunking scan can be set up 2 ways

Non-priority scan can include conventional and trunked systems or mutiple trunked systems talkgroups. You'll get you 16 channels then.

OR

Priority scan, which is limited to 10 channels trunked all on the same system with no conventional. THis is because the scanning is done off the control channel and has to grab the scanned talkgorups from it.

Personally I can't follow more than 16 channels of scan. You really only need to hear was pertinent to you and what you're doing at the time.