Im fairly new to the pro-96 and 2096 scanners, can i receive Icall on these or not? also, i no this sounds dumb, but what exactly is Icall? I live in the canton, massillon ohio area, can anyone explain it tome and how I would recieve I call if possible. please reply to me at wc8i@yahoo.com thanks to all for help, Bill
Help with ICall
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wc8i said:
An I-Call is basically two units in a private conversation that cannot be monitored by other users on the system. The PRO-96 and 2096 scanners will not receive or track I-Calls. The only way to receive an I-Call on a PRO-96 or 2096 would be to monitor it in conventional mode. The drawbacks are that you would have to know beforehand which frequency on the system the I-Call was taking place on, the scanner wouldn't track them if the conversation switched frequency, and no I-Call radio ID would be displayed. With these limitations it would be difficult to be sure what you were hearing was actually an I-Call and not just a regular group conversation on the trunked system.
396 will trunk the Icall. It has to be 800 system in your town just go in edit and go to that system file and go sys opt I think and go to Icall you can have Icall and 800 system going or you can just have Icall itself.
scanrrman said:
If you turn on I-Calls, but do nothing else, you won't hear any in ID Scan mode unless you either enter a valid radio ID, or enter the I-Call Wildcard as suggested above. If you use ID Search mode, you would see radio ID's show up much like a talkgroup. Your display might show something like this: 704697-704642 ...this is the radio ID's of the units involved in the I-Call.
sta18ff
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I dont beleive you need to use the 70000 talkgroup with the 396 and poss the other newer Unidens. Actually I just tried entering it to see and it tells me it is a bad talkgroup id. I think with the newer ones that monitor status bits there is no need to enter the 7000. But then I have been wrong in the past. Lol.
fmon
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The period . is and i for EDACS I-Call entries (i00000)
Don't know about the 396/996 but for other Uniden scanners the generic number for Motorola I-Call is seven hundred thousand (700000) not 70000. Ken validates this with his display examples. EDACS is i00000. However, don't know why but entering i0 then E will enter i00000. With the Motorola, all 6 digits are required.
Don't know about the 396/996 but for other Uniden scanners the generic number for Motorola I-Call is seven hundred thousand (700000) not 70000. Ken validates this with his display examples. EDACS is i00000. However, don't know why but entering i0 then E will enter i00000. With the Motorola, all 6 digits are required.
fmon said:
This was changed on the 396/996
Per the owners manual for the 396 the wildcard number for both Motorola and EDACS I-Calls is the same:
http://www.uniden.com/pdf/BCD396Tom.pdf
"Note: You can enter I-Calls by pressing . then the
I-Call number. You can enter the I-Call wild card by
pressing . then 0."
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