Weather frequencies

[Chris516]

I had the weather frequencies on my BC75XLT. I took them off. Because they were going constantly and, blocking the ability to hear anything else.

My BCD325p2 arrived yesterday. In the programming from FreeScan, When I do the upload to the scanner, it keeps giving me an error message about the weather frequencies missing.

If I program my new scanner with the weather frequencies, Can I program it to some sort of time delay on the weather frequencies only?

 

[shadcall]

I am not sure why you need the weather frequencies unless you want them in your scanner. However I do not use FreeScan as I have Provoice and DMR frequencies in my scanner which FreeScan does not support. I use ARC XT from Butel. If you do put the weather frequencies in your scanner you can lock them out but pushing the L/O button twice when it lands on that frequency. It is located third button down on the left on your scanner. If you want to listen to the weather without programming them in you can go to menu and scroll down until you see WX Operation. Push the knob down and then go to WX Scan and push the knob and you will hear the WX channels in your area.

 

[hiegtx]

I had the weather frequencies on my BC75XLT. I took them off. Because they were going constantly and, blocking the ability to hear anything else.

My BCD325p2 arrived yesterday. In the programming from FreeScan, When I do the upload to the scanner, it keeps giving me an error message about the weather frequencies missing.

If I program my new scanner with the weather frequencies, Can I program it to some sort of time delay on the weather frequencies only?

That 'alert' from FreeSCAN is one that can ignored. It pops up if you have not entered the S.A.M.E. codes, sometimes comes up 'just because'.

Another one that you may see is a warning that there is 'no bandplan for system xxxx' (replace xxxx with the name of one of your trunked systems). It does that even when the system it is 'warning' you about is one that does not require a band plan. I've found that FreeSCAN will pop-up with a half dozen or more warning messages, especially on the first load to a new scanner. With extremely few exceptions, these are meaningless and can be ignored.

 

[Chris516]

I am not sure why you need the weather frequencies unless you want them in your scanner. However I do not use FreeScan as I have Provoice and DMR frequencies in my scanner which FreeScan does not support. I use ARC XT from Butel. If you do put the weather frequencies in your scanner you can lock them out but pushing the L/O button twice when it lands on that frequency. It is located third button down on the left on your scanner. If you want to listen to the weather without programming them in you can go to menu and scroll down until you see WX Operation. Push the knob down and then go to WX Scan and push the knob and you will hear the WX channels in your area.

I don't 'absolutely' need the weather frequencies. But thank you for the 'lockout' reminder. I added them with all of them locked out.

That 'alert' from FreeSCAN is one that can ignored. It pops up if you have not entered the S.A.M.E. codes, sometimes comes up 'just because'.

Another one that you may see is a warning that there is 'no bandplan for system xxxx' (replace xxxx with the name of one of your trunked systems). It does that even when the system it is 'warning' you about is one that does not require a band plan. I've found that FreeSCAN will pop-up with a half dozen or more warning messages, especially on the first load to a new scanner. With extremely few exceptions, these are meaningless and can be ignored.

The 'No bandplan' is one I haven't been able to fix yet. I fixed all the 'APCO' messages.

 

[hiegtx]

I don't 'absolutely' need the weather frequencies. But thank you for the 'lockout' reminder. I added them with all of them locked out.


The 'No bandplan' is one I haven't been able to fix yet. I fixed all the 'APCO' messages.

The "no band plan" is one you can simply ignore. As long as the scanner is receiving the system with no problems, that 'warning' is false.

 

[Chris516]

The "no band plan" is one you can simply ignore. As long as the scanner is receiving the system with no problems, that 'warning' is false.

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