Performance compared to the XT?

iMONITOR · Oct 14, 2014

I currently own two BCD996XT scanners. I have an opportunity to pick up a BCD996T for a good price.

I've carefully noted all the feature differences in the Wiki. That being said, how do they compare in performance? I have some less active, less important things I want to monitor, without tying up my XTs. On a given band/mode/frequency, are they similar in performance?

rbm · Oct 14, 2014

I haven't seen much difference at all.

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W6KRU · Oct 14, 2014

The T models do not allow you to specify digijtal/analog audio. IMHO this is what causes the occasional burst of digital audio(motorboat) on my local mixed mode Moto system.

The XT models do not have a true manual P25 threshold adjustment. This causes high P25 err rates at times on some simulcast systems. This problem got better with the last firmware release that allows a pseudo manual threshold adjustment.

iMONITOR · Oct 14, 2014

DDan said:
The T models do not allow you to specify digijtal/analog audio. IMHO this is what causes the occasional burst of digital audio(motorboat) on my local mixed mode Moto system.

The XT? models do not have a true manual P25 threshold adjustment. This causes high P25 err rates at times on some simulcast systems. This problem got better with the last firmware release that allows a pseudo manual threshold adjustment.

Did you mean to say "T"?

mule1075 · Oct 14, 2014

DDan said:
The T models do not allow you to specify digijtal/analog audio. IMHO this is what causes the occasional burst of digital audio(motorboat) on my local mixed mode Moto system.

The XT models do not have a true manual P25 threshold adjustment. This causes high P25 err rates at times on some simulcast systems. This problem got better with the last firmware release that allows a pseudo manual threshold adjustment.

The 996t does allow you to specify. The 396t does not.

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W6KRU · Oct 14, 2014

iMONITOR said:
Did you mean to say "T"?

No The XT does not have manual threshold adjustment.

W6KRU · Oct 14, 2014

mule1075 said:
The 996t does allow you to specify. The 396t does not.

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Good catch mule. I forgot about that detail.

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