I have the Tallahassee system programmed into my BCT 8. I followed the instructions in the manual beginning on page 30 where it says, "Press TRUNK for 1.5 seconds . . ." Be sure you enter it as E2-800, because it is a Motorola Type II trunked system. (And, to answer your question above, you don't need hex and dex for it.) I programmed it by hand and don't remember exactly how I did it, but I used frequencies and talk group IDs from the havanafolks website (I put all frequencies in except for the 3 data ones). I also had a hard time figuring it out, and because it has to be programmed in a certain order according to the manual, I remember having to undo what I had already done, and start over a couple of times. I'm pretty sure it would be much easier than programming the 996, because I have the 246 which also has the dynamic memory system, and it was very hard to learn. Besides, you don't need digital yet, unless you want to monitor the Federal Corrections Institute (boring!). Hope this helps.
