BCD396XT & Utah Group

[ryanisflyboy]

Is anyone local planning on buying a BCD396XT when they come out? I'm pretty excited about this radio. I'm not a hard core guy, but I've been scanning for about 20 years. My cheapy pro-94 is showing its age. It is long overdue for an upgrade.

Also, since I am new here, do you guys ever meet up, chill out, and bring your radios so poor guys like me can see what the 'big boys' carry? I've never even seen a Uniden scanner close up. I'd love to meet and actually hold a BCD396T, as well as a PSR-500. You can only learn so much by staring at a picture.

Further, anyone do much with Linux & scanning?

 

[bchris]

Bcd396xt

Yes, I am planning on getting a BCD396XT. Since I have purchased a couple new scanners fairly recently it probably wont be when they first come out, but I hope within a year. I would have bought one instead of the GRE, but I couldnt stand the wait.

As far as handheld units, I have a GRE PSR-500 and a Uniden BR330T you could look at if you would like. The '330 is in the same case as the '396 - just the embedded software is different. I live near Salem and work in Springville. I go to Provo & Orem all the time. I could meet you somewhere.

Some of the guys here meet on occasion. I fully intend to participate one day, but so far I have been too shy.

-bc

 

[qlajlu]

Welcome to the Utah Forum of RR.com​

ryanisflyboy​

I see that you have been hiding out in the shadows for some time. I want to thank you for having already indicated your location, too. I'm willing to bet that you have seen me asking everyone who doesn't have their location showing to put one in. It would seem that you are up to speed on the rebanding and the edited trunking tables since your first post did not ask about these things. Usually a first-poster is wondering why his scanner stopped scanning or is not scanning as it has been doing.

I'm not personally familiar with the scanner you are looking at, but I have been an avid Uniden user for years and just recently jumped ship because of their lag in keeping up when we rebanded. Couldn't wait any longer so went with a GRE PSR-600.

You are going to be very happy to know that, yes, we do have occasional get-togethers. In fact, one was just held recently. You may want to read that thread to see what all went on.

There are getting to be enough members in the Utah County area that maybe someone in that area should organize a meeting a little closer to home. Of course, we from north of you would expect to be invited since we are all family.

Again, welcome. Pull up a chair, join the conversations, and enjoy. We're glad you are here.

 

[bneilson]

Welcome ryanisflyboy !

 

[N7YUO]

Happy Valley Members

ryanisflyboy and bchris:
If you look at the RR Database>Utah>Areawide Trunking>UCAN,
you will see that for Utah County, there isn't diddly squat.
I know for a fact that a lot more talk groups are assigned to that area.
What this forum needs is some members who have
the time and willingness to verify talk groups for us.

Any members from Utah, Wasatch, Summit, & Box Elder Counties:
If you are willing to help, send me a Private Message.

 

[ryanisflyboy]

ryanisflyboy and bchris:
If you look at the RR Database>Utah>Areawide Trunking>UCAN,
you will see that for Utah County, there isn't diddly squat.
I know for a fact that a lot more talk groups are assigned to that area.
What this forum needs is some members who have
the time and willingness to verify talk groups for us.

Any members from Utah, Wasatch, Summit, & Box Elder Counties:
If you are willing to help, send me a Private Message.

A little about me: I am the current benevolent dictator of the Provo Linux Users Group (PLUG, www.plug.org). We have about 450 members associated with that group. I work at Omniture as a Sr. Linux System Administrator, and so we meet here once a month. I'm interested in scanner control via the web, groking control channel output with Perl, and anything super-geek that happens to involve Linux and scanning. Windows is tolerated. ;-)

I'd love to try to arrange a monthly meeting for a Utah County scanner group if anyone is interested (similar to PLUG). I'm not sure what other similar groups around the country call themselves. It would be trivial to get a mailing list set up, along with a web site. I've got the experience, and the equipment, to do it all. It might be really interesting to set up some live streams from some scanners on the site. Maybe even figure out how to do remote control of scanners via the web.

Also, one thing I desperately would love to have is an IRC channel where we can all communicate real-time. Is there such a place? Currently I hang out in freenode most of the day. A scanner group should meet the following freenode guideline: 'Non-Software-Related Peer-Directed Project."

Maybe a few of us in Utah county can meet at Omniture some night, and try to hammer out some details to form a group with regular meetings. The second or third week in January is looking best for me. Since I am very new here, are there a group of people in Utah county that have the gear/experience to help form the base membership of such a group? Are you interested in doing so?

Oh, and one thing about me: I don't waste time and tend to jump right to the point. ;-) So, I'd like to announce that I just registered UtahRadio.org, and will plan on getting a site up in the next week or so. What would you like to see done with such a site? Also, i've registered #utahradio on freenode. Simply grab an IRC client (there are lots of free ones out there), connect to chat.freenode.net, and /join #utahradio. I will be in and out through the day.

Is this a good enough start in the help department, MrGadget?

-Ryan