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Hello, Still very new to scanning. Trying to get my BCD396xlt to work with our local fire department. Essex County Fire department is on LTR Passport TRS (trs is ???) I have downloaded all the freq's into my scanner. Nothing heard in a few days. The Radio Reference page doesn't show...

We've got a 2096 that has spent it's entire life inside, on a good surge protector, that has suddenly developed a problem. When I put it in manual, and go to our P-25 control channel here, it should show MO, and it does, but only for a split second. As soon as the sys ID info starts to show...