I too have purchased a Uniden BCD996P2, as my home county (Orange, NY) will be migrating its EMS Response channels to a 700/800 MHz P25 Phase 2 trunked system dubbed CoRNet after a shutdown of the existing VHF-high band analog Response system on June 1 and after hearing from other scannists that they have had success in using this particular model of scanner to monitor talkgroups on Orange's Countywide Radio Network.
I downloaded FreeScan (2.18-beta6), as recommenced above, onto two laptops, first onto one still using Windows XP Professional then, after the first one not working, onto one using Windows 7 Home Premium. Neither one of them will recognize the scanner after it is connected to any of the available USB com ports. The device managers on both laptops are showing that a driver is missing. After a series of differently worded google searches, most of which pointed me back to the same website (
BCD996P2 < UnidenMan4 < TWiki ) that claims to have the drivers (the hyperlink embedded in there appears to be nothing more then Notepad entries and security catalogs), I searched on here for a potential solution. One locked thread suggested that the USB programming cable supplied with the scanner might be broken, so I tried a known working aftermarket USB cable, again with no joy.
Can someone please tell me where I can find the correct driver needed to allow me to connect either one of these two laptops (a Dell Inspiron 1300 and and Acer Aspire 5732Z respectively) to the BCD996P2, using either the supplied USB cable or an aftermarket one, so that I can use FreeScan to program it?
I am not a premium subscriber. I am more than willing to manually program the '996P2, as I've had plenty of experience using previous versions of FreeScan to program a BCD396XT, BCT15X, and other previously supported models.