Andy,In response to your questions:
"When I switch fron conventional scanning to trunk scanning, the volume drops ever so slightly. Is this normal?"
Yes. It is not a problem with the scanner. Audio output can vary widely among conventional channels and/or trunked systems.. this is due solely to the configuration of the individual systems. I listen to 2 Motorola systems where one of the systems has low audio, and the other has much louder audio.. I'm constantly having to change the volume!
"Quite often when ID-List scanning a trunk system, the bottom line will switch from ID Scanning to Scanning and CRAWL thru the freqs for the system and finally continue ID Scanning. Is this the reaquire control channel effect?"
This does sound like data channel re-acquire. However, the radio should not "crawl" through the channels to re-acquire the data channel. Ensure your squelch is not open when this happens.. as that will definitely slow down the campaign. Also, lock-out all trunked channels that are not data channels, that way when the re-acquire happens it won't unnecessarily step through all of the voice channels.
"Folks have mentioned the 00. talkgroup bug in ID-lists. In scan-search mode sometimes an id pops up ID: -------. Is this indicating a 00xxxx ID not being read due to this bug?"
Sorry, haven't had experience w/ this one.
Regards,
Mike