My BCT15X knows more than me!!

[Blackink]

Yikes....that's scary.
This is just a "new user" story but I found it funny AND interesting! Read on...
Now granted.....I'm a new user to scanners and programming, but I was trying to enter a frequency in a trunked system/site and it wouldn't accept the number I was entering. My scanner kept changing it!

Let me explain;
I had manually entered/programmed a new trunked system into FreeScan, just to learn how to do that, and then I went ahead and manually entered the info into my scanner to learn how to do that. I don't want to rely on FreeScan to do all my programming.

All was fine until I started entering the Confirmed frequencies into my scanner that I had put into FreeScan.
I was entering 452.32520 into my scanner, which is what I had entered into FreeScan, and when I pushed the Function button, the # was showing as 452.3250 (the last #2 was omitted). I went back in to EDIT the frequency thinking I pushed the wrong number key while entering the info, re-entered 452.32520 (the same # I had entered into FreeScan), and after pushing the Function button, (because I thought I was correct...lol), the # shown was 452.3250....again!
Dummy me..... thinking I still was hitting the wrong number key, I went into EDIT the frequency again and entered that .32520 again and it still came back as .3250.

So now I'm thinking something must be wrong somewhere, so I go into the RR database to doublecheck the trunked system frequencies I'm trying to enter and sure enough, that frequency number I entered into FreeScan and my scanner was wrong, and the number my scanner was showing AFTER I entered the incorrect frequency was correct-the 452.3250!

Now don't that beat all?!? It seems, at least in my listening area, that the frequency numbers for the 3 trunked systems that I've programmed into my scanner all end in either a "0" or a "5"....and not "2".

I mention every now and then when I post in these forums how much I learn from reading these posts, and I want to thank the folks that help us newbies out, but today I learned that my scanner taught me a little something.....

Sigh....still learning every day

[gtaman]

Originally Posted by Blackink

Yikes....that's scary.
This is just a "new user" story but I found it funny AND interesting! Read on...
Now granted.....I'm a new user to scanners and programming, but I was trying to enter a frequency in a trunked system/site and it wouldn't accept the number I was entering. My scanner kept changing it!

Let me explain;
I had manually entered/programmed a new trunked system into FreeScan, just to learn how to do that, and then I went ahead and manually entered the info into my scanner to learn how to do that. I don't want to rely on FreeScan to do all my programming.

All was fine until I started entering the Confirmed frequencies into my scanner that I had put into FreeScan.
I was entering 452.32520 into my scanner, which is what I had entered into FreeScan, and when I pushed the Function button, the # was showing as 452.3250 (the last #2 was omitted). I went back in to EDIT the frequency thinking I pushed the wrong number key while entering the info, re-entered 452.32520 (the same # I had entered into FreeScan), and after pushing the Function button, (because I thought I was correct...lol), the # shown was 452.3250....again!
Dummy me..... thinking I still was hitting the wrong number key, I went into EDIT the frequency again and entered that .32520 again and it still came back as .3250.

So now I'm thinking something must be wrong somewhere, so I go into the RR database to doublecheck the trunked system frequencies I'm trying to enter and sure enough, that frequency number I entered into FreeScan and my scanner was wrong, and the number my scanner was showing AFTER I entered the incorrect frequency was correct-the 452.3250!

Now don't that beat all?!? It seems, at least in my listening area, that the frequency numbers for the 3 trunked systems that I've programmed into my scanner all end in either a "0" or a "5"....and not "2".

I mention every now and then when I post in these forums how much I learn from reading these posts, and I want to thank the folks that help us newbies out, but today I learned that my scanner taught me a little something.....

Sigh....still learning every day

Change the kHz step it should fix it. Freescan automatically will change the step to the freq. when you do it manually you have to manually change it in settings.