[Scan-DC] Fairfax County Public Safety

[Bote Man]

One of the problems with Uniden's choice of displaying decimal
instead of hex talkgroups is that you lose the ability to
discern patterns in the mapping of the talkgroups.

(17623 - 17616) = 7, which I think means the talkgroup is patched
with another. (This makes sense if they are patching it to
the analog talkgroup for dispatch.)

If they had chosen to do it right--I mean, Big-M style, in hex, 
it would show up as '44D7' with a trailing 7 when patched and it would
make perfect sense without all these handstands that they make
us go through. If it were not patched, it would show up as
'44D0' or just '44D' without some other neat indicator that
they could have crammed onto that display.

Oh well, that's Uniden for ya: why make it easier for the user
when they can make it easier on themselves.

Bote
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John M. Nash
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 April, 2003 08:26
> Subject: [Scan-DC] Fairfax County Public Safety
> 
> After a couple of days of monitoring the Fairfax County system, I would like to 
> start confirming some of the talkgroup information.  I programmed the current 
> posted information from trunkedradio.net. Most of the information is correct.  
> Some might be in error. For instance, it has FCFD 4A as 17616. I found it on 
> 17623.
> 
> John Nash
> McLean