[Scan-DC] Re: opening text files in ARC250

[Doug K.]

Thanks Mike,

To me, this begs the question, "Why the L aren't the files just posted in 
.mem format?"

I may be obtuse, but I can't think of an answer that adequately explains 
that...

Editorial:

While I think the BC 796 seems to be a very good unit, I don't consider it 
to be user friendly.  Every time I try to do something with mine, it turns 
into a project.  That may be fine, and I consider myself reasonably 
knowledgable about scanners, radios, electronics, and computers, having 25 
years or so of experience in the first 3 and 10 or so in the last.  And, 
these things, to some extent, are also my hobby.  But the point is that I 
bought this radio to listen to fire and police calls, not to be playing with 
it and fooling around with it all the time - I already have enough projects 
and I just find it frustrating.

Thanks for the bandwidth, gang!  ;)

Happy new year, all.

Doug

>From: <ka3jjz at netscape.com>
>Reply-To: ka3jjz at netscape.com
>To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: [Scan-DC] Re: opening text files in ARC250
>Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 04:59:09 -0800 (PST)
>
>   I've been fooling around a little with the demo version of this program. 
>I don't think ARC250 will open them directly; however, if the files are 
>.csv (that is comma seperated value) in nature, you can import the 
>frequencies using ADI, but you will need to use Excel or Works to 
>copy/paste the rest.
>   That's one of the weak points in ARC250; while it supports direct 
>importing of their other product's files (ARC780 in this case), their csv 
>mapping is very weak. Scan Control is much much better in this regard.  But 
>then SC doesn't have recording capability...yet, while the Pro version of 
>ARC250 does.
>   73s Mike