48051 Area New Owner Questions

[car7858]

Hello, My name is Carl & I live in Chesterfield, Macomb County, Michigan. I just recently received this nice scanner as a gift but I am having alot of difficulty using it. I loaded Freescan .9 and I have Premium Membership with Radio Reference. I had downloaded the Macomb County Trunked Freqs I wanted when I clicked on the Erase all Settings tab in the upload box; Now, my scanner has none of the settings nor programs of any type in it and it won't accept uploads into the memory of the scanner. I get an error message that tells me my settings (apparently) in the scanner need to be reset/checked. My questions are these:
1. Is there a way to reset this scanner back to factory default?
2. Is there a Uniden site link that can restore the factory settings? and
3. How can I get the memory to accept the uploads from Radio Reference via Freescan?
I really am quite enthusiatic about learning how to properly use this scanner & I would appreciate any input from this group. Thanks.
P.S. Is there a possibility of someone that programs these scanners in my area? I could sure use the help getting this scanner back to default, then properly programming Macomb County Freqs. If there is a fee for this, I would be willing to pay, as long as it isn't an outrageous price.

[kc8syo]

Originally Posted by car7858

Hello, My name is Carl & I live in Chesterfield, Macomb County, Michigan. I just recently received this nice scanner as a gift but I am having alot of difficulty using it. I loaded Freescan .9 and I have Premium Membership with Radio Reference. I had downloaded the Macomb County Trunked Freqs I wanted when I clicked on the Erase all Settings tab in the upload box; Now, my scanner has none of the settings nor programs of any type in it and it won't accept uploads into the memory of the scanner. I get an error message that tells me my settings (apparently) in the scanner need to be reset/checked. My questions are these:
1. Is there a way to reset this scanner back to factory default?
2. Is there a Uniden site link that can restore the factory settings? and
3. How can I get the memory to accept the uploads from Radio Reference via Freescan?
I really am quite enthusiatic about learning how to properly use this scanner & I would appreciate any input from this group. Thanks.
P.S. Is there a possibility of someone that programs these scanners in my area? I could sure use the help getting this scanner back to default, then properly programming Macomb County Freqs. If there is a fee for this, I would be willing to pay, as long as it isn't an outrageous price.

Hi Carl I live in New Baltimore if you give could me some info on your radio like model number I may be able to help. My email is kc8syo@att.net

[car7858]

Hello Kc8syo; I do appreciate your offer of help; I have been posting threads in other parts of this forum & thanks to many members like you, I have allot better understanding of my Uniden 396XT scanner. One person told me how to reset it back to factory, which I did then I deleted the out of state groups and uploaded the P25's for a good part of Macomb County. I am working on downloading them back into Freescan .9 so I can change the alpha tags on some of them to more recognisable ones. I alos had issues with configuring my serial port & again the Radio reference members walked me right through. I am in & out of here quite often, feel free to sned me an email or we may chat back & forth in a post. My email is cargina2@comcast.net.