The short answer is yes - the 996XT (as well as the 996 and 396XT) is more suited to systems having multiple sites such as the system in your area. With the 396 you could not do that.
What I did when I visited up there, I did the following so I could listen to the ARMER system on my 396. I created an Anoka System, a Hennepin East System, a Hennepin West System, a Minneapolis System, a Ramsey System and a State system (which the call the Minneapolis city center). For each of these systems, I had to copy and paste all the groups I was interested in hearing, so that gobbled up a lot of memory, but that was the only way I could accomplish what I wanted.
I also had my 396XT with me and I did it differently because it would scan multiple sites. So I was able to set up a single system for ARMER and I could enter each of the above transmitters as separate sites.
The long-winded explanation is this:
I'm trying to figure out a tactful way of saying something. Your post said "system" and "bank". With the Uniden Dynamic Memory, "banks" are a thing of the past and "system" is the equivalent, more or less. (Banks were finite clusters of things, where systems are flexible in the size of the cluster of things). When you said "system" the term for the context you used was "site".
Going way beyond you asking what time it is, and I'm telling you how a watch is made, but the existing terminology used by Uniden doesn't correctly describe the ARMER system and its components.
You could liken ARMER to a file cabinet drawer. The ARMER system is the drawer itself. Contained in that drawer are several file folders called "sub-systems". There are many sub-systems in addition to those I mentioned above (Hennepin East, Hennepin West, Anoka Simulcast, etc) and they are like the file folders. Within those file folders are sheets of paper, or in this example, actual transmitter sites. These transmitter sites are simulcast meaning they are all transmitting the same thing at the same time on the same frequency. The Anoka Simulcast system has 5 transmitters.
The conclusion is that upgrading your 396 to a 996, or 396XT or 996XT will allow you to monitor the public safety radio traffic up there more efficiently. Use a program such as ARC XT Pro and use the download feature for the ARMER system and you'll be pretty much ready to go.
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