Hello,
I just purchased a BCD996XT after a couple of years of wanting one. I bought it used off of eBay and purchased it so I could monitor the MPSCS. It came with a data cable, however it is an older serial data cable and I do not own any computers old enough to have that port. I can order a newer cable but I was hoping to be able to get this thing up and running today.
Our county still runs on VHF with a patch-over for MSP units, so I've never had an absolute NEED to monitor MPSCS... so I have absolutely no experience with P25. I understand the general concept of how the system works and I have attempted to program the scanner however I'm not getting anywhere with it.
It's running firmware 1.04.00, and from what I understand re-banding is already supported on this firmware. I created the P25 system manually and created my local site. I input all of the frequencies listed in the RR database for the site closest to me and saved it. I created a group for our counties talkgroups to test the system out, and began scanning, however it's not picking anything up. The display shows the site name at the top, followed by a scrolling "ID SCAN", followed by what looks to be the control channel, followed by SO:1 (flashing) and GRP1 (because I only have one group so far).
When I hit the hold button it displays the SID information and successfully shows the system ID number and the site ID number which I did not input anywhere so it's obviously connecting and at least receiving some proper data, it's just not picking up any radio traffic. Does it have anything to do with the band plan? I left it blank during setup.
If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated. I would love to use this without having to wait another week for a cable in the mail.
I just purchased a BCD996XT after a couple of years of wanting one. I bought it used off of eBay and purchased it so I could monitor the MPSCS. It came with a data cable, however it is an older serial data cable and I do not own any computers old enough to have that port. I can order a newer cable but I was hoping to be able to get this thing up and running today.
Our county still runs on VHF with a patch-over for MSP units, so I've never had an absolute NEED to monitor MPSCS... so I have absolutely no experience with P25. I understand the general concept of how the system works and I have attempted to program the scanner however I'm not getting anywhere with it.
It's running firmware 1.04.00, and from what I understand re-banding is already supported on this firmware. I created the P25 system manually and created my local site. I input all of the frequencies listed in the RR database for the site closest to me and saved it. I created a group for our counties talkgroups to test the system out, and began scanning, however it's not picking anything up. The display shows the site name at the top, followed by a scrolling "ID SCAN", followed by what looks to be the control channel, followed by SO:1 (flashing) and GRP1 (because I only have one group so far).
When I hit the hold button it displays the SID information and successfully shows the system ID number and the site ID number which I did not input anywhere so it's obviously connecting and at least receiving some proper data, it's just not picking up any radio traffic. Does it have anything to do with the band plan? I left it blank during setup.
If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated. I would love to use this without having to wait another week for a cable in the mail.