I believe there is a caveat that the 996P2 must be on V2.18 or higher!
BCD325P2/BCD996P2: BCD996P2 Phase II Base-Mobile Digital Scanner programming software
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how can you find that information ?
My bad...Freescan must be version 2.18 or higher!
Sixspot Software - Downloads
FreeSCAN To install FreeSCAN, download and install the .MSI file. For differences between versions and important operating information, see the release notes. This version supports the the SC230, BC246T, BR330T, BCD396T, UBC3500XLT, BCT15, BCD996T, BC346XT(C), BCD396XT, BCT15X, and BCD996XT
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Do some scanners have bigger open squelch area before the static than others
RMason
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freescan version 2.18 added support for 996p2
Sixspot Software - Release Notes
2.18/beta3 ----- -New: You can change the size of the system tree -Fix: Should be improved compatibility with VC and 996P2 -Fix: Recorded mp3 file name template setup no longer case sensitive -Change: Make more than one group for LTR systems 2.18/beta2 --------- -Improved precision of radius drawn
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2.18/beta3
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-Fix: Should be improved compatibility with VC and 996P2
2.18/beta2
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-Added 996P2 & 325 support
YES...varies widely!!!
I never had a Uniden to know how the squelch, My RadioShack Pro-2015 the knob went further before the static and the Pro-197 is 55% before static
Volume and squelch controls used to be physical pots...now they are rotary encoders. Act the same, but no really! Thus the difference in the older radios and newe!
Would the Uniden be better than the Pro-197 on the squelch, I been looking at the Uniden but I can't find a picture online on where the static starts to compare the two
wtp
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hit the hold button, type in 111.0 then hit hold again
'turn' the squelch until you hear the static and then back one more 'tick'.
that is the quickest way to listen to a frequency.
'turn' the squelch until you hear the static and then back one more 'tick'.
that is the quickest way to listen to a frequency.
My 996P2 does work with Freescan although I now use ProScan. While Freescan will work with the 996P2, Freescan does not support DMR, NXDN, etc.
Just tried Freescan with my 996P2 this morning to get this screenshot...
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With exception of no support (as noted) for DMR and NXDN systems, FreeSCAN does work for basic programming with the P2 scanners, as well as the previous "T" and "XT" scanners.
On the other hand, ProScan works for all of those models, as well as even earlier Uniden scanners, and also the newer database scanners in the x36HP & SDS series. And it supports DMR as well as NXDN for the newer scanners that have the paid upgrades.
The orange dot next to the 3 is that's the furthest to the squelch I can go does the BCD996P2 go down further than that are any other scanner
tvengr
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The BCD996P2 normal squelch setting is 2.
Would you happen to have a picture of the 2 setting since I don't have one yet
What is oldest scanner that uses pots that has Pl tones or that can be setup by programming software
Can you change the squelch with programming software, that's the first scanner I saw that tells the squelch position how many settings does it have
Yes you can. It has settings of 0 - 19.
Actually that's what I used to think but I've been told an encoder would be too expensive, it's acutally a cheap rotary pulse switch which has been known to get dirty and fail over time with heavy use. But I never had one fail in my lifetime as I seldom need to adjust it.
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