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Sentinel for UBCDx36 and USDS

Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2020 10:16 pm
by pks
There's separate Sentinel for both UBCDx36 and USDS.

Does anyone know how to easily transfer from one Sentinel to another in bulk?

The only solution I have so far is to export each Favourite List and import one at a time.

Re: Sentinel for UBCDx36 and USDS

Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2020 11:06 pm
by rustynswrail
pks wrote:There's separate Sentinel for both UBCDx36 and USDS.
Does anyone know how to easily transfer from one Sentinel to another in bulk?
The only solution I have so far is to export each Favourite List and import one at a time.
In some versions of Sentinel (mainly the US ones) it is easy. You can use it to program both radios without conversion. In Australia export the FL as a HPE file. This is done is FILE, EXPORT TO HPE etc. In the other version import the HPE file. Again this is done in FILE Import from HPE etc.

R

Re: Sentinel for UBCDx36 and USDS

Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2020 11:34 pm
by pks
rustynswrail wrote:
pks wrote:There's separate Sentinel for both UBCDx36 and USDS.
Does anyone know how to easily transfer from one Sentinel to another in bulk?
The only solution I have so far is to export each Favourite List and import one at a time.
In some versions of Sentinel (mainly the US ones) it is easy. You can use it to program both radios without conversion. In Australia export the FL as a HPE file. This is done is FILE, EXPORT TO HPE etc. In the other version import the HPE file. Again this is done in FILE Import from HPE etc.

R
Thanks R!

Re: Sentinel for UBCDx36 and USDS

Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2020 2:10 pm
by Alex McCreath
Yep, and when you have 50-60 Favourites it’s a long tedious process!! But it works :-)


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Re: Sentinel for UBCDx36 and USDS

Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 8:11 pm
by freqwaves
How do you change the name "Favourites 1" to another name in the Sentinel software?
I somehow was able to create a new folder called "Johns" but could not edit or change to a different name.

Thanks, John.

Re: Sentinel for UBCDx36 and USDS

Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 9:37 pm
by Xplorer00
freqwaves wrote:How do you change the name "Favourites 1" to another name in the Sentinel software?
I somehow was able to create a new folder called "Johns" but could not edit or change to a different name.

Thanks, John.

Easy as.
Click on to highight the "Favourites 1" name.
Hover mouse over the "a|e" icon on second row and it will display "Rename Favorites List".
Click on it and type in whatever name you want to call it.

Re: Sentinel for UBCDx36 and USDS

Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2020 3:02 pm
by freqwaves
Thanks,
mastered it now.

Re: Sentinel for UBCDx36 and USDS

Posted: Sun May 03, 2020 11:51 pm
by pks
After doing some quick file comparison, here is what I have discovered with f_list.cfg in FavoriteLists folder:

USDS:
From line 3 onwards, right after "F-List" is a tab character (0x09)

UBCDx36:
From line 3 onwards, right after "F-list' is a space then tab character (0x20 0x09)

So what I've done is copy FavoriteLists from UBCDx36 to USDS, make the necessary changes in f_list.cfg and viola. No need to export and import each and every FL.

Obviously, please make backup and try at your own risk. I haven't tried BCDx36HP yet.