Hi all....I'm fairly new to the scanning world. The scanner I use most of the time is the BCD396T. I have a couple questions....
Where I live it's generally a bunch of small Villages, so the local Police is on a Conventional System, they are not Trunked. I have put in the freqs. that are listed for my area, and I just feel that I am not hearing everything that is going on. I KNOW there is more going on than what I hear. Don't get me wrong though, I do hear a fair amount of talk, but I just know there is more going on.
With some of the freqs. I see that there is a PL Tone next to some of them. I do not have this code programmed in the scanner. If I program it in, will I hear more transmissions??
Is there any way to connect the scanner to the computer and type out the Alpha-Tags, and up-load them into the scanner?? I have a lot of names and such to put in, and the constant clicking and spinning of the knobs and buttons is driving me crazy.
Where I live it's generally a bunch of small Villages, so the local Police is on a Conventional System, they are not Trunked. I have put in the freqs. that are listed for my area, and I just feel that I am not hearing everything that is going on. I KNOW there is more going on than what I hear. Don't get me wrong though, I do hear a fair amount of talk, but I just know there is more going on.
With some of the freqs. I see that there is a PL Tone next to some of them. I do not have this code programmed in the scanner. If I program it in, will I hear more transmissions??
Is there any way to connect the scanner to the computer and type out the Alpha-Tags, and up-load them into the scanner?? I have a lot of names and such to put in, and the constant clicking and spinning of the knobs and buttons is driving me crazy.