Has Anybody Here Used 100% Of The Memory On Their BCD396XT Or BCD996XT?

[JASII]

As posted above, I am just wondering if anybody here has used ALL of the memory on either the BCD396XT or BCD996XT?

[gtaman]

Originally Posted by JASII

As posted above, I am just wondering if anybody here has used ALL of the memory on either the BCD396XT or BCD996XT?

I have 9 trunked systems 300 conventional channels 212 air channels and about 150 of random junk And I've used 17 percent.

[swskf115]

Originally Posted by JASII

As posted above, I am just wondering if anybody here has used ALL of the memory on either the BCD396XT or BCD996XT?

nope i have 53 systems, 102 sites and 5,073 channels on my scanner and i am at 15% best investment ever, if you are thinking of buying one DONT HESITATE!!

[Ronaldski]

I have several setups for different people, biggest one for a FPS officer has according to freescan, 9,006channels, 488 groups, 96 sites, 96 systems = 36% used

[ka3jjz]

I've seen this come up when folks have a new scanner, they don't clear the pre loaded data, and do an add several times in FreeScan, rather than a replace

Mike

[szron]

Originally Posted by Ronaldski

I have several setups for different people, biggest one for a FPS officer has according to freescan, 9,006channels, 488 groups, 96 sites, 96 systems = 36% used

Somebody should program whole MPSCS into theirs

That's the largest trunking system in America amirte?

[pro106import]

Yup I am maxed out on two BCD396XT's. I have all of my vacation destinations stored so each time I go back I can add/modify what is in there and I don't have to worry about reloading stuff. I also have a couple of systems that have entire search ranges in them which take up a few hundred slots each. Thanks to programs like freescan we don't have to enter each freq separately like the old days! Memory is so cheap these days I sometimes wonder why they don't have even more space available. I can sure use it, lol.
Bob

[pdfdems286]

bcd396xt. 9 systems. 9 sites. 109 ch's. memory 0 memory used.

bcd996xt. 10 systems. 11 sites. 256 ch's. 2 merory used.

but i change thing's/add/delete once in a while.

[gtaman]

Originally Posted by szron

Somebody should program whole MPSCS into theirs

That's the largest trunking system in America amirte?

I think it may be tied with ohio Marcs too. If these could decode TETRA I wonder what the whole AIRWAVE system in the uk would do. It would probibly kill it. That is one big system.

Edit I looked up the largest system I believe it's the Louisiana LWIN system with over 67,000 users on it.

[Raccon]

Originally Posted by gtaman

I think it may be tied with ohio Marcs too. If these could decode TETRA I wonder what the whole AIRWAVE system in the uk would do. It would probibly kill it. That is one big system.

Airwave is encrypted, so programming it into your scanner would literally be a waste of memory.

[gtaman]

Originally Posted by Raccon

Airwave is encrypted, so programming it into your scanner would literally be a waste of memory.

I know that. I would only do it if I could decode it.

[rbm]

I have two 'maxed out' loads for my XT's

About 70% is identical in each, and the other 30% is unique.

Obviously all the systems are not being scanned all the time.
Usually just 3-8 or so at any one time.

But programming that way allows me to scan any combination of systems at any time without having to reprogram.

Rich

[maalox]

no way lol i have 7 systems 1 full 7sites channels 1178.

[Raccon]

Originally Posted by gtaman

I know that. I would only do it if I could decode it.

Decoding TETRA (which is what you mentioned earlier) and decoding encryption are two different things. The former is comparably easy, the latter not so much. Although Air-Interface Encryption (AIE) is part of the TETRA standard it is optional, thus decoding TETRA does not mean you can also decode TETRA AIE.

[gtaman]

Originally Posted by Raccon

Decoding TETRA (which is what you mentioned earlier) and decoding encryption are two different things. The former is comparably easy, the latter not so much. Although Air-Interface Encryption (AIE) is part of the TETRA standard it is optional, thus decoding TETRA does not mean you can also decode TETRA AIE.

Sorry for all of the confusion. Yes I know TETRA is end to end encrypted. What am saying is if TETRA was not encrypted. If they had a scanner that could decode TETRA if it was not encrypted the uk systems would be huge.

[mainetrunk]

On my bct15x and bcd396xt, have hundreds of freqs between them and a few trunks. that includes testing freq bank-sub..Still plenty of room.. I'd love to see the programming of a newer uniden that is filled. Gotta be something good in it..

[Raccon]

Originally Posted by gtaman

Sorry for all of the confusion. Yes I know TETRA is end to end encrypted.

AIE is not the same as E2EE, which is also optional, i.e. TETRA can be clear, with AIE, with E2EE or both (AIE and E2EE).

What am saying is if TETRA was not encrypted. If they had a scanner that could decode TETRA if it was not encrypted the uk systems would be huge.

I see.

[Unitrunker]

I like the fact that Freescan warns you when you've hit a limit. Short answer: yes I've maxed out my 996XT.