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Would it be possible to put, like all Fire in one bank of a Pro-97?
like king/vall. talkgroups along with eastside talkgroups? And the same for PD? Cities and county talkgroups in one bank. I'm trying to group things better. I now have them split out by system. King co/ SO and Fire in one bank and Cities/Eastside Pd/fire in another.

Group within system to not miss traffic.

SPD North 3280 is always on the Seattle system, but only on the King County system if one of the north end units is affiliated with a King receiver - if all north units are affiliated with Seattle and you are listening to King, you will be out of luck.

I listen to identical TG's on a bank for Seattle and one for King.

So the best way is to have them sperate like i do currently? So its not good to group all fire in one and all PD in another? I know this would be mixing city and county stuff which are on 2 difrent systems..any other people have input on this? thank you..

OK for all the fire in the King system and all PD in King system. To get all the coverage you would want a PD and Fire banks for all three systems

I have a BCD396T that I use more than anything else. I'm not sure how it compares to the Pro-97, but I have it set up like this:

Bank 1: EPSCA
Bank 2: Seattle
Bank 3: KC/VC
Bank 4: Port of Seattle
Bank 5: Tacoma
Bank 6: Sno Co. West
Bank 7: Sno Co. East
Bank 8: Eastern WA conventional
Bank 9: PD Conventional
Bank 10: FD Conventional

Each bank has its own quick keys. Within the EPSCA/Seattle/KC-VC systems I've programmed the first 5 quick keys exactly the same for fire (1: EPSCA, 2: Seattle, 3: VC, 4: FD Admin, 5: EMS). Then PD varies depending on the system. I have the Sheriff's talkgroups in all of the systems. And QC 10 in all of the systems is the various mutual aid talkgroups. The conventional systems generally have quick keys organized by county. I have a huge MS Excel spreadsheet that I've created with all of this info, which you can then easily cut and paste into the programming software. The 396 is really an amazing radio with impressive capabilities.

Anyway, to answer your question, you really need to segregate out the various services and areas and put them in separate banks (or quick keys). You want one bank to be Seattle Fire, the next to be Eastside, and the third to be S. King, for example. In my opinion anyway...