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With regard to what I quoted below I just ran into this problem with an RR import of San Diego County RCS trunked.  Can this option be added for trunked systems as well?

When I did the import Freescan warned me I had more than 20 groups and it would compress them but then I ended up with two systems for San Diego County RCS but missing a LOT of talk groups.

How can I best import all of San Diego County RCS from RR on a BCD396XT?

-A new enhancement has been added to the RadioReference Web Import Service. As we all know,
these scanners have a limit of 20 groups per system. This can be an issue when importing certain
systems because they contain many subcategories that only have 1 frequency in the entire group
and some would consider entirely wasting space.
-A new feature has been added that lets you select the minimum number of channel that should
appear in their own group. For example, if you set it to 3, any group with less then 4 frequencies
will still be imported but its channels will all be placed in a Miscellaneous group.
-This is great for rural areas where you get these behemoth systems that have 30, 40, or 50 groups
with only one or two frequencies per group compressed down to one system with a Misc group that
contains all the respective frequencies.
Larger sized subcategories will continue to be imported as their own groups.
-To activate this feature, click on the Options tab in the RadioReference Conventional Import dialog.

No talk groups actually were missing, and FS won't split up trunk systems. You can't fit 91 groups when you only have 20 groups available by scanner design, so FS compressed them into the Encintas group to keep within the 20 limit. At the end of the day, its a huge system with 1571 tgids, the scanner can't hold this many groups or this many TGIDs, so pretty much the only thing you can do is import the system multiple times, 3x, importing different groups every time and make one giant monster.  You can also skip the dumb ones like the water treatment plant, test channels etc which should help.