BCD396XT - Analog/Digital same freq

[kkn50]

When programming a frequency that is used for both analog and digital (e.g. 155.7525 VCALL10, 156.7 PL / 293 NAC), must the frequency be programmed twice - once for analog and once for digital - or if the PL and NAC are both programmed with the frequency will the 396XT open squelch on either?

Thanks.

 

[dracer777]

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I think you can just leave audio type to "all" and it will open squelch on either one.

Or if you want the display to show a diff thing for each one, you'll hve to prog 2 chs

 

[Russell]

If you don't want to use open squelch then you will need to program it twice. I get too much noise/false signals with open squelch and the radio has tons of memory, so I use two entries and put an 'a' or 'd' on the channel name to differentiate.

 

[W6KRU]

When programming a frequency that is used for both analog and digital (e.g. 155.7525 VCALL10, 156.7 PL / 293 NAC), must the frequency be programmed twice - once for analog and once for digital - or if the PL and NAC are both programmed with the frequency will the 396XT open squelch on either?

Thanks.

Have you listened to the frequency yet? I'm not sure how close you are to the border but here in So Cal., the taxis/whatever from south of the border are all over the place in the vhf band. They drive me crazy On the freqs where possible, I always put in the PL. If you do that, you will have to put the frequency in twice since you can't use PL and decode digital on the same freq.

 

[kkn50]

Thanks - that what I needed to know before I program the interop freqs.

>If you don't want to use open squelch then you will need to program it twice.

>you will have to put the frequency in twice since you can't use PL and decode digital on the same freq.

 

[c5corvette]

Thanks - that what I needed to know before I program the interop freqs.

>If you don't want to use open squelch then you will need to program it twice.

>you will have to put the frequency in twice since you can't use PL and decode digital on the same freq.

Why would you program the interop channels into your scanner with a PL or NAC ???

Both DHS NIFOG and NTIA RED BOOK clearly say to program the RX with CSQ !!!

 

[Russell]

Why would you program the interop channels into your scanner with a PL or NAC ???

Both DHS NIFOG and NTIA RED BOOK clearly say to program the RX with CSQ !!!

Then you end up with half your channels locked out becuase of interference/noise. NIFOG actually says default mode is CSQ receive/CTCSS or NAC for transmit. It goes on to say if the radio can't be programmed to disable/enable CSQ then it should be programmed with CTCSS/NAC receive.

This is actually confusing ... why program transmit with CTCSS/NAC but receive to CSQ? What is the advantage to CSQ receive when transmitting a tone?

 

[sfd119]

You could hear weaker signals, I suppose. I'm not sure on the thinking on this though.