I have a bcd396xt and was wondering how I could set up a favorite list so when the scanner dispatches our fire dept. I could just hit a quick key and go to this list and just listen to the fire depts. instead of all the other systems programed in the scanner.
Thanks for all your help.
Dave
Have you looked in to using Quick keys for this? Think that may be about as close as the radio will come to a favorites. I suppose, if the fire dept(s) are all conventional, you could set up one group as Favorites, give it a system quick key. That would toggle that group on/off when you used the quick key. To get the others to NOT scan, they would need their own quick keys, but they could all be the same quick key and effectively turn them all off at once. So, you have the city you're in and 3 surrounding cities...each with PD and Fire. You could set up Systems with City1PD and another system with City1Fire. Continue this for the other 3 cities. Set all the PD quick keys to 1 and all the fire quick keys to 2. Then when you want to listen to JUST fire (touch quick key 1 which would turn off the PD, another touch of the 1 key and PD is back).
What I was getting at with the "favorites" system would be to put all the fire in there and use the one quick key on that system...but you would always have all the FD's going if that system were on.
Am I getting anywhere near close to what you want to do?
Tom
Favorites list