newbie (NJ) BCD996XT owner

[XMM]

Firstly,I apologize, I guess this should be in about three different Threads!

I am a retired LEO. My son is an Investigator for the County and works as a part-time Patrolman in for a local PD.

I became interested (again) in scanners when my son graduated from the Police Academy. I bought a Uniden BCD996XT, partly (largely) because my son doesn't want me messing with his Motorola XPS3000.

This thing is not (new) user friendly. The documentation (a CD that links to Uniden’s website) is not intuitive. I have all of Burlington County, Camden Co., NJSP (North, Central, South) and Burlington Co. Misc., systems on the scanner. I’ve been fiddling with the on board controls to try to lock out a great majority of the things I’ll likely never listen to in order to listen to Pemberton, Mt Holly, Medford, Evesham, Red Lion SP, and local Fire, EMS, etc.

If I had an easier time of it, I’d like to build a few new groups to include the above. I know I would need the control channel and the actual comm. channel for each group. Soooo....after looking over this site

I downloaded FreeScan and got my LT communicating with the scanner. I'm more than a little concerned that if I do something wrong, I'll wipe everything out.

Also, my son wants SPEN (state police emergency network?).

I am having very little success.

I want to mention that my dealer, White Dotte, LLC, has been very helpful. I somehow managed to stop the scanner from functioning at all after only one day. Chris reloaded everything at no charge and set up a few new things.. I don't want to keep bothering him. I need to learn for myself.

Please, can someone share how to create a new SP group, say containing Red Lion SP ( 3 com S?) and other key SP TGID's.

Thanks

[NYRHKY94]

XMM:

I would recommend posting your questions in the NJ Forum on this web site. You're likely to get the answers you are looking for an probably some help in programming your scanner for the area you are interested in. Here's the link:

New Jersey Radio Discussion Forum - The RadioReference.com Forums

[mrkelso]

Which software did you use to program the radio?

[XMM]

I didn't use any program as yet. I'm pretty sure my dealer used Freescan, because when I was looking over his shoulder, the screens appeared to be the same as the program I loaded.

Thanks

[loumaag]

As suggested, the OP has re-posted this question in the NJ forum. Please direct any further replies there, thanks.
New Burlington Co user needs a hand