My county has P25 dispatch for the sheriffs office. The rest of the frequencies are type RM and mode FMN. Do I create a system for the P25 dispatch, and then put the other frequencies in the P25 group or do I need to create another system for the FMN frequencies? Two of them are repeaters. I have messed with this until I'm about ready to pull my hair out. Owners manual on CD is vague.
Programming infor for Uniden BCD396XT
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Its easier than you think.
Create a System for this county. Everything can go in that one system, P25 and all others.
Then create groups for each of the entities (County, Cities, etc.)
Then enter the channels as you would for any other type of system for the groups.
On that one P25 channel, for the SO, you would choose Digital for the Audio Type, setting the mode as Auto.
For all other frequencies, the audio type should be Analog and the mode should be Auto.
Auto is kind of a catch-all. After you get it up and running okay, you can tinker with setting the mode to NFM and see if you see any improvement. You may or may not.
If you have programming software, such as FreeScan or ARC-XT, with you being a premium subscriber, you can down the most of these things and fine tune the settings as described above.
Create a System for this county. Everything can go in that one system, P25 and all others.
Then create groups for each of the entities (County, Cities, etc.)
Then enter the channels as you would for any other type of system for the groups.
On that one P25 channel, for the SO, you would choose Digital for the Audio Type, setting the mode as Auto.
For all other frequencies, the audio type should be Analog and the mode should be Auto.
Auto is kind of a catch-all. After you get it up and running okay, you can tinker with setting the mode to NFM and see if you see any improvement. You may or may not.
If you have programming software, such as FreeScan or ARC-XT, with you being a premium subscriber, you can down the most of these things and fine tune the settings as described above.
Scrubcreekman
Thanks a bunch. You cleared up this fuzzy old mind. LOL I will give it a try!
Thanks a bunch. You cleared up this fuzzy old mind. LOL I will give it a try!
teufler
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Trinity cty texas
If you have cables, try this
If you have cables, try this
Windows cannot open the zip file
teufler
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WE HAVE TO SEND FILES, on RadioReference in zipped format. Go to your search engine and get 7-zip. Its a good zipping and unzipping utility. Or if you have somethingh else that unzips, that will work. zipping means that the files we send or post usually can not get changed in transit, so its safer and quicker.
Sorry I haven't been back on here and explain how I solved my problem. I found a program called FreeSCAN that interfaces with RadioReference. Makes it a breeze even though I had to buy a usb cable to go to my scanner. You open the program and pick the Scanner tab up top and download the county or whatever else you're looking for. It will put the frequencies and info into the FreeScan window. Select the ones you want and click upload from the Scanner tab and it will put them right into your scanner. Keep in mind you have to have the premium subscription from RadioReference. I believe that is $15 for 90 days.
teufler
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Thats what I did with the file I posted. So now you are monitoring and seeing what is going on in the world.
I bought the ARC XT software and never could get it to see my scanner. Still trying to fix the problem but I used freescan and finally have mine loaded with the ranges set for my GPS receiver thru help from this forum.
teufler
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you saying you could not see the comm port. Usually has to do with drivers, load the driver from miklor.com. Cables & Drivers - Prolific & FTDI
load the prolific driver
load the prolific driver
I loaded the prolific driver, it indicates the blue port is available. I set the baud rates on the port and scanner to the same. Still nada. It works great on free scan software. It's a gig aware serial to USB cable .
I've had a similar situation previously - ARC doesn't want to connect to a port I know is there.
What I did was a computer shut down and re-start. ARC could then find the port.
I was thinking some software other than ARC was locking up the port and ARC could not get to it. The shutdown cleared that lock.
What I did was a computer shut down and re-start. ARC could then find the port.
I was thinking some software other than ARC was locking up the port and ARC could not get to it. The shutdown cleared that lock.
teufler
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thats right, after you set the port with the driver, you have to reboot.
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