Unless I'm mistaking something, you do not 'have' to use the RRDB. I think there may be a misconception here. Like Chris, I'm planning to hold off until we see what Whistler has planned. So, I'll have to set up lists for Metro North, Metro West, Metro South, and so on and then add individual departments and agencies. I don't organize anything by county since counties are meaningless in MA and most of New England. Sentinel takes a lot of sitting and staring at the menus just to figure out what I want to append to favorites lists. It's far easier, at least for me, to use ARC XT and my RR account to download specific systems and then tailor those to my interests. If they made it so that the file structure was the same as the XT scanners, that would have been perfect. I'd even live without that and with Start Up keys although the Scan Lists, Scan Sets, and Virtual Folders are a better arrangement for wide ranging scanning. What I was hoping for was essentially a XT scanner that also did Phase II, DMR in it's various forms including trunking, had GRE like DSP, and something like scan lists that GRE used. While it's good for traveling to unfamiliar areas, it makes programing the local area much harder. Having to download the entire US and Canadian databases and then having to pick what you want and then edit that down to what you REALLY want is a pain. Sentinel is hard to navigate and confusing at first.

GRE was not a software company, nor is Uniden for that matter. The software was hard to navigate and kind of a kludge.

I had the use of a PSR 800 and I liked many of the features that GRE included in that. Like Chris, I would have been happy with something less radical. It's a fast growing technology for mostly non public safety users.

Like Scott, I wanted DMR and am disappointed that Uniden didn't add it.

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