looking for some to program bct8 scanner for Pinellas County

[raisinkain]

Hey guys I'm looking for someone to program my bct8 for Gulfport and surrounding towns for me
I live in Gulfport If anyone can help I'd be happy to pay them... Thanks Randy

Email.. randysmobile@gmail.com

 

[FLA2760]

Have you considered this option? Butel has software for your BCT8 .


http://www.butel.nl/

 

[raisinkain]

I do not have a pc with a com (db9) port.. So the software will not work .. lol I thought of that already Thanks though..

I amd playing with it trying to learn.. It's a slow process.. on my part..lol

 

[FLA2760]

Scanner master will program it if you ship it to them. The cost will vary depending how much you want programmed. For what it's worth you might want to give the PRO 107 a look, you can program the scanner from the database on the scanner SD card via on screen prompts. I have one and it is a good scanner.


Scanner Master - Police Scanners by Uniden Bearcat, AOR and Radio Shack.


RadioShack® PRO-107 Handheld iScan Trunking Scanner - RadioShack.com

 

[ka3jjz]

You can often use a USB-serial converter with the software (ARC8 or Scan Control are probably your best choices). There are many off the shelf generic ones that are known to work well; some of them are linked here, along with a fairly detailed discussion of setting things up...

Connecting scanners via USB - The RadioReference Wiki

You can also do this manually - the thing that always screws people up is programming a trunked system, and our wiki also has a handy how-to on that subject, as it seems to come up time and time again...

Programming the BCT-8 - The RadioReference Wiki

However it looks like you have a newer P25 system set up in Pinellas, and the BCT8 won't be able to trunk this...I would ask (and look!) around in this forum to see if this system is going to grow. If so you will need a digital trunktracker for this system; and before you ask yes, it will hear all the analog stuff too...

Categoryigital Scanners - The RadioReference Wiki

best regards..Mike

 

[CanesFan95]

Best thing to do is go through the learning curve and spend the time and just do it! Programming takes a lot of time, but you're going to learn a lot more that way.