After much careful research, I took the plunge and invested in a Uniden BCD996P2. Rather impressive bit of hardware, but holy mother of God whoever wrote the manual was a complete sadist. Gave up on manual programming and got set up with Freescan. Got connected via USB (which is hours of hell, but that's another whole story), but finally all checks out good, all going fine, and then....
Programming fails at the same exact point every single time.
WTF?
Uploading all but the offending Systems I get everything else in the scanner except the same three systems all fail at the same groups, loading the same channels each time. An interoperability system fails at the LawEnf(UHF) group to program LE-14, a med interoperability system fails to load MED 2, and a Texas DPS system fails to load DPS Harlingen.
Reloading just the DPS system by itself, works. Trying the same thing with the other two systems doesn't. Delete the offending channels entirely and the systems load fine...except for the interoperability system, which freezes up on an entirely different channel now.
So why does the scanner not like just those certain channels? Memory is only 6% full, Freescan isn't having any other issues talking to the scanner, either reading OR writing, it just up and fails on just those certain channels.
What gives? Nothing about the frequencies, settings or groups has anything in common between them.
Programming fails at the same exact point every single time.
WTF?
Uploading all but the offending Systems I get everything else in the scanner except the same three systems all fail at the same groups, loading the same channels each time. An interoperability system fails at the LawEnf(UHF) group to program LE-14, a med interoperability system fails to load MED 2, and a Texas DPS system fails to load DPS Harlingen.
Reloading just the DPS system by itself, works. Trying the same thing with the other two systems doesn't. Delete the offending channels entirely and the systems load fine...except for the interoperability system, which freezes up on an entirely different channel now.
So why does the scanner not like just those certain channels? Memory is only 6% full, Freescan isn't having any other issues talking to the scanner, either reading OR writing, it just up and fails on just those certain channels.
What gives? Nothing about the frequencies, settings or groups has anything in common between them.