BCD-396T Questions

[Go-West]

I will be programming one of my BCD 396T's with Idaho's ICAWIN system. I was wondering that the control channels, 773.93125, 774.38125, and 774.93215 will work on the original 396?
This will be my first attempt at using 700 Mhz P-25.

Thanks.

 

[ka3jjz]

If I'm reading this correctly, that would be the Ada county simulcast. If that will be the strongest site and closest to you, that's what I would do.

However, you have a couple of issues here - since this is a simulcast digital system, there will be a certain amount of distortion that you probably won't be able to completely resolve. Our wiki has an article that describes the issue in great detail, and the link (always in blue, both here and in our wiki) is below

Simulcast digital distortion - The RadioReference Wiki

The other issue is the fact that you have multiple sites. The 396T cannot handle multi site programming, so you are forced to allocate a system for every site you wish to monitor, and duplicate any talkgroup programming for each one. Messy but doable with some care.

I would jump down to the Idaho forum and join up with the IdaScan Yahoo group and start asking questions about ICAWIN. Be sure to let them know which scanner - and software - you are using. You might luck out with someone that can give you file(s) to start to learn about this system

73 Mike

 

[Go-West]

Thanks for your input. I do have a GRE-500, so I guess I'll be using that scanner in the future.