texas
Hey jim im pretty sure the 996 xt you have will auto detect the P-25 systems, whether you have it in conventional mode or the P-25 mode set up, i looked at the state of texas database and it looks like there is a lot of mixed vhf channels and a few but not too many uhf channels, it looks like most of the vhf channels are both digital and just conventional, and what i mean by that is the ones that have the nac codes next to them are digital only, and the other ones that have the pl code tones are just conventional only, the ones that are digital you might see the P-25 come up sometimes if they are a P-25 system, some systems are mixed, some use both analog channels and P-25 in the same system, by looking at the state of texas, the way you should start a new system in the 996 xt is too go into menu and then click on program system and then click on new system, and for youre state you should select the conventional setting, and then make a group. and then you can separate the digital channels from the conventional channels, the way to put the nac code in the scanner for a digital channel is to hold onto that channel and then push enter, and then go to where it says set audio type and then click on whatever the channel should be, if its digital only then you can either search for the nac code, or you can put it in manually, just turn the volume knob to put the numbers in, then use the right arrow thing the > to jump over to put the next number in then once youre done hit enter, or the same thing for a conventional channel select analog only and then put the ctcss code numbers in and then push enter, and you should see that the scanner will automatically detect P-25 systems, if they are a P-25 system so to answer youre ? about should the scanner be set to up to pick up P-25 the answer should be no, and to answer youre ? about what is fm or what i think you meant is nfm, the one should be frequency modulation, and the other one should stand for narrow frequency modulation hope this helps you out Daniel...
