BCD436HP/BCD536HP: BC436HP won't accept NAC I'm trying to program

[owen0445]

I have been trying from both the face of scanner and the Sentinel programming software to enter a NAC I suppose is a non-standard NAC and cannot get the radio to accept it. I found the NAC using the Close Call function and it displayed properly along with the frequency, however when attempting to manually enter the NAC it won't allow me to do so. Any ideas or is this radio simply incapable of taking certain NACs?
Thanks-Rodney
(example NAC format is Number/Upper Case Alpha/Number/lower case alpha, i.e. 1A0b)

 

[KevinC]

A NAC is only 3 digits consisting of 0-9 and A-F.

 

[tvengr]

If you are talking about site NAC, that is not available on the 436, only on the SDS scanners. Using Sentinel, go to the Tools tab and set Target Model to BCDx36HP. Site NAC is available in the software only if Target Model is SDS100 or SDS200. NAC numbers will sometimes be followed by a lower case h. That is not part of the NAC. It indicates that it is a hexadecimal number.

 

[ChrisP]

owen0445, if you are using a Uniden scanner, they show a lower case "h" after the NAC, to indicate that it is a hexadecimal value. You may have mistaken the "h" for a "b".

As KevinC said, NACs are three digits...

- Chris

 

[Ubbe]

I found the NAC using the Close Call function and it displayed properly along with the frequency, however when attempting to manually enter the NAC it won't allow me to do so.

If the scanners CloseCall decodes it then it should be a valid one. You only need to use NAC's if you have different users with different NAC's using the same frequency. It doesn't help the scanner perform better, it's only going to try and match the NAC's and if it's not detecting it perfectly it will mute or even continue to scan, loosing that conversation. The same goes for color codes, RAN's and whatever. The more filters you apply the more risk of not hearing what you are supposed to do.

/Ubbe