South dakota digital

[bigsiouxriver]

Hi, I am looking to buy a bcd996t scanner I have never had a digital scanner is programming the south dakota freq's easy to programm into this scanner or would a radio shack pro96 be better.

 

[MMIC]

The software with the BCD996T is free and easy to use. I would recommend the BCD996T over the Pro-96 for both features and programming.

 

[loumaag]

It should be pointed out that the BCD996T is a mobile/base scanner and the Pro-96 is a hand held scanner. The Uniden hand held is the BCD396T (not all features of the 996 are in the 396). Also for the Pro-96 (and Pro-2096 base/mobile) you must use software to program the SD system, it cannot be done by hand. The only software that works reliably to do so (at this time) is Win96 (not free) from Starrsoft.

 

[bigsiouxriver]

Thanks loumaag, I mis typed the radio shack # I am looking at the mobil/base model of each. I am going to buy a uniden everything I have read leads me to to belive the uniden will do more of what I want to do. Thanks, Luke

 

[piggysfsd]

Can someone refresh my memory, what is the baud rate on the SD System?

 

[wlmr]

Can someone refresh my memory, what is the baud rate on the SD System?

3600 baud

 

[bigsiouxriver]

What is baud rate is it set automatic or is it something that need to be set I bought a BCD996T and programmed it for the south dakota bands and have not had any proplems but I did not see anything that gave a option on the buad rate.
Thanks,

 

[wlmr]

What is baud rate is it set automatic or is it something that need to be set I bought a BCD996T and programmed it for the south dakota bands and have not had any proplems but I did not see anything that gave a option on the buad rate.
Thanks,

The Radio Shack scanners automatically lock in & decode the baud rate (indicated in the display).

Anyone who can answer on the Uniden models?

 

[loumaag]

Actually there are only set bit rates depending on the system type, mostly it is referred to as the bits per second as opposed to baud. All Motorola systems are at 3600 bps (happens to be 3600 baud); APCO-25 systems are 9600 bps (4800 baud); EDACS Standard are 9600 bps (also 9600 baud); EDACS Narrow are 4800 bps (4800 baud). Hope this helps clear it up. So when you set the system type, it expects to see the appropriate bps rate. In the Pro-96/2096 they mistakenly refer to P25 as Motorola, so indeed it does detect the proper type based on bps rate of the CC and use it to determine the correct way to decode; the Uniden 796 and 296 do it in a similar fashion; the Uniden 396 / 996 are set via the menu to the proper type.

 

[bigsiouxriver]

Thanks for the information it is very helpful.