Welp, it

[Hawkeye2012]

came in just now...my BC72XLT has arrived...and boy this old guy can see things have
changed since I last had a scanner!!! It's going to take me some time to figure out
how to program this baby, but maybe that will keep my old brain going a few more
days LOL...
Took only 3 days from buying on ebay till I recieved it, thats pretty fast...
Expect to hear me wailing when I cain't figure something out !!!
don

 

[Hawkeye2012]

Okay first wailing for help....I tried to get the service search to work, I pressed "Func" and "Svc" buttons and "SRCH DID NOT appear...didn't hear anything, not even weather bank!?!?
don

 

[RonnieUSA]

From the manual page 34:

Service Search
You can search for weather, ham, marine, aircraft,
police, or fire transmiss
ions without knowing the
specific frequencies used in your area. The scanner
is preprogrammed with all the frequencies allocated
to these services. To use this feature, press
Func
and
Svc
.
SRCH
appears and the scanner searches
starting with the weather service bank. To select a
different service bank, repeatedly press
Func
and
Svc
. Service mode appears on the display.
When the scanner stops on a transmission, press
Hold
to stop searching and listen to the
transmission.
Hold
appears. In this mode, you can 35
Operation
press
Func
+ or
Func
+ to step through the
frequencies.
To release the hold and continue searching, press
Hold
. Or, if you did not press
Hold
, simply press
Func
+ or
Func
+ to continue searching.
Note: Because there are many different frequencies
allocated to fire and police departments, it can take
several minutes to search all the service frequencies.

Good Luck

 

[Hawkeye2012]

Thanks Ronnie, will see what happens....

 

[RonnieUSA]

Your very welcome.

 

[gr8rcall]

Hey, welcome to the site! here are the freqs for your area:
Clay County, Missouri (MO) Scanner Frequencies and Radio Frequency Reference

Unfortunately, it appears that in the future, your area may be on a digital trunking system. You would not be able to pick THAT up with your current scanner.

When that time comes, you will have to get a digital scanner.

For now though, your okay!

 

[Hawkeye2012]

Thanks Gr8call, yep I had saved that page....I'll maybe be fine if I can figure out actual programming LOL...I've managed to get weather so far...will stumble thru and hope for the best !!

 

[gr8rcall]

hawkeye,

See this link:
Quick Start Guide for the Uniden BC72XLT Emergency Scanner » The Poptimistic Tiki-tastic Retro-Future Present

It has VERY easy to understand programming instructions!
The "banks" he's talking about are essentially lists of things to scan.

That should get you up and running this very minute!

 

[Hawkeye2012]

Thanks a bunch gr8rcall, will definitely bookmark this and see what I can do...thanks again
don

 

[nanZor]

One thing that can trip you up is the [F]unction key. It is common to accidentally turn on close-call or search when you may not need it by pressing [F] multiple times, when you only needed to do it once. In some modes the [F] key is "sticky" on purpose - such as when stepping manually through the channels.

Keep an eye out for the [F] icon in the display and take it slow at first and you'll get the hang of it.