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So... I took the plunge and am getting a PSR-500. If I understand the manual correctly, I can program virtual banks.... so i downloaded Win500 from http://www.starrsoft.com and have been getting ready for the radio.

I'm primarily listening in King Co., so I have a King County Virtual Scanner. I'm also creating a Pierce and Sno Cty set because there's so much to do there...

Then I'm making a Western WA, Eastern WA, Oregon Coast, Willamette Valley/Eastern OR, and probably a couple more for other areas I go to from time to time....

So.... questions for you PSR-500 owners out there:

1) does this make sense?
2) is it easy to switch between these on the fly as you drive around (it appears so to me from the manual)
3) Would you go more/less granular, and why?
4) would you be interested in sharing files, particularly anything with P25 & LTR since I've not bothered with those before....

I filled up 18 banks on my 197 using win.500

Bank 0 is kind of a conventional dumping ground; railroads, fed conventional rptrs, etc
2 Thurston/Lewis
3 Tacoma/Pierce -TRS and Conv
4Seattle/KC -mostly trunked
5Portland/BOEC -mostly trunked
6SE Wash - Benton Co TRS and Franklin/Walla Walla Co. Benton Co TRS soon to be P25
7Umatilla -Mostly 400mhz trunking Haven't got the tables right yet
8Clark Co/CRESSA
9WCCCA Wash Co Ore
10 LP/Drive Thurs
11 Clackamas Co - Both Clack/Wash county simulcast in each system
12 Willamette Valley- Some Eugene stuff but haven't got the NAC codes yet
13 Cen. Oregon -Bend/Redmond TRS Received this system from Klickitat Co
14 Col. Gorge -Hood River/Wasco/Sherman/Gilliam/Skamania/Klickitat Co
15 Cen. Wash- Kittitas/Chelan/Douglas/Grant/Lincoln
16 Ft Lewis TRS
17 McChord I could dump this one since I don't get it from home and they may merge with Ft Lewis at some point.
18 Yakima County


I could move Clackamas into bank 7 so it's arrangement would be 1 less keystroke FUNC+# to choose a bank beyond 10 to keep it organized in a I-5 and eastern Ore Wash scheme but haven't done it yet.

I like this arrangement as I'm in the gorge or e wash I can listen to one county or region based on population and can still assign fed channels like TSA and others like LERN or fire nets in multiple banks without taking up more blocks

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"I was installing un-programmed radios"

Personally, I gave up on the thing after I figured out what I needed to do to program it. I miss the banks.

When I get back into programming it - I will program the 20 lists as:

1 Quiet listening for area 1.
2 More listening for area 1.
3 Everything else for area 1.
4 Wildcard for area 1.
5 Start the same for Area 2.

You will find you can really mix a lot of trunking together in any list because the TSYS is imbedded by reference in each scannable object.

Virtual memory makes it real easy to completely setup a functional scanner for any area - or setup several different ways of scanning the same area - and change easily on the fly.

Obviously a big time programming exercise.

And by the way anyone who's already done all this feel free to message me your .p500 file- can't upload as p500 isn't an allowed extension....

It should work now.

ok... here's king, pierce and sno counties as I have them now - critiques/updates/corrections appreciated.....

THanks for getting this started. I'll contribute when I get up to speed. Let's rename these v1.0 and then run from there. See what develops could be very cool.

For down here in Portland, I have my banks zoned off by county and then by service:

Bank 1: Washington County
Bank 2: Portland/Multnomah County
Bank 3: Clackamas County
Bank 4: Yamhill County
Bank 5: Columbia County
Bank 6: Marion County

Bank 11: Statewide Law
Bank 12: Railroad
Bank 13: Aviation
Bank 14: Conventional Business
Bank 15: US Gov't
Bank 16: Misc TRS

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Can you post or send your .p500 file?

Ask and you can shall receive!

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So I've put in 2 hours and can figure how to add or import the file to the radio.

-from stupid

Here's my first attempt at western WA outside sno/king/pierce

And Eastern WA

OSP PDX 154.935000 FM CTCSS 179.9 0
OSP SLM 155.910000 FM CTCSS 156.7 0
OSP Astoria 156.150000 FM CTCSS 179.9 0
OSP Mcminville 156.225000 FM CTCSS 179.9 0
OSP St Helens 154.905000 FM CTCSS 179.9 0
OSP Tillamook 154.860000 FM CTCSS 179.9 0
OSP Mill City 154.860000 FM CTCSS 156.7 0
OSP Coos Bay/Sea 154.860000 FM CTCSS 131.8 0
OSP the dalles 155.910000 FM CTCSS 192.8 0
OSP Exec Sec 154.785000 FM CTCSS 179.9 0
OSP Tac 156.030000 FM CTCSS 156.7 0
Fish & Game 158.895000 FM Search 0
SAR 158.902500 FM Search 0
OSP Emerg 155.475000 FM Search 0
OR FD Mut Aid 154.280000 FM Search 0


Marion FD North 154.160000 FM CTCSS 123.0 0
Marion FD N2 159.345000 FM CTCSS 123.0 0
Marion FD Centra 154.385000 FM Search 0
Marion FD Centra 153.770000 FM Search 0
Marion FD South 154.415000 FM CTCSS 123.0 0
Turner FD 154.010000 FM CTCSS 123.0 0
FD Aums/Stay/Sub 154.250000 FM CTCSS 123.0 0
FD Detriot Mill 154.295000 FM CTCSS 123.0 0
Marion SO Disp 154.740000 FM CTCSS 100.0 0
Marion SO F3 154.890000 FM Search 0
Marion SO 154.905000 FM Search 0
Marion SO 155.700000 FM Search 0
Marion SO 155.865000 FM Search 0
Mt Angel PD 154.815000 FM CTCSS 100.0 0
Salem PD Disp 460.475000 FM CTCSS 192.8 0
Salem PD F3 460.075000 FM CTCSS 192.8 0
Salem PD F5 460.175000 FM CTCSS 192.8 0
Woodburn PD 155.130000 FM Search 0


Some more stuff for Marion County and possibly OSP....

Hey this is a great link, I will build one for Snohomish County and post it here. in Win500 format. any one who uses Win500, should post what they have and we can all have some of the best Vfolder's ever seen. how do I upload my Win500 file here ? And thanks for all of the ones posted so far.