posershadow
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- Dec 27, 2011
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Hi all,
I come from the world of radar detectors so my understanding of scanners is a bit lacking. I plan on getting a BCT15X here pretty soon for trips along the 15 up to Vegas, using it mostly for monitoring CHP traffic. Based on what I have found out, the areas I'm looking at will use (42.56 B, 42.72 M), (39.26 B, 42.74 M), (39.88 B, 42.08 M), (39.68 B, 42.02 M) and (39.80 B, 42.84 M). All of which are CTCSS. Now of course, as soon as I get to Nevada, it's a whole different world with trunked radio in the 850mhz range. My knowledge of trunked systems isn't all that great, but I won't be using it as much as the conventional radio.
My questions on the 15X are mainly related to setting it up and how it scans. Typically with radar detectors, they just scan a whole range of frequencies continuously. When it finds a strong source, it sticks on that freq. With radio, I assume you have to program presets into it, to indicate which frequency you want to listen too individually. The 15X has some sort of state feature so it has some built in knowledge I think. Does that mean you just have to thumb through the freqs, almost like using your car stereo with automatic preset favorites? Or does it automatically pick up traffic on all of those pre-programmed frequencies automatically? My goal is to also pick up the mobile extenders and air patrol stuff at the same time. With scanners, can you set a whole series of frequencies into a group or do you have to go through them one by one?
And on the beartracker system, I assume all that does is warn you as soon as you start picking up a mobile extender. Now onto the Nevada side. With the trunked system, how would I go about setting that up? Would that just be another preset with Nevada as the state or am I going to have to manually add all of the info for the trunked setup.
I hope all that makes sense. Basic questions, but I'm getting lost when trying to figure out how I'm going to have to setup the 15X.
Thanks
I come from the world of radar detectors so my understanding of scanners is a bit lacking. I plan on getting a BCT15X here pretty soon for trips along the 15 up to Vegas, using it mostly for monitoring CHP traffic. Based on what I have found out, the areas I'm looking at will use (42.56 B, 42.72 M), (39.26 B, 42.74 M), (39.88 B, 42.08 M), (39.68 B, 42.02 M) and (39.80 B, 42.84 M). All of which are CTCSS. Now of course, as soon as I get to Nevada, it's a whole different world with trunked radio in the 850mhz range. My knowledge of trunked systems isn't all that great, but I won't be using it as much as the conventional radio.
My questions on the 15X are mainly related to setting it up and how it scans. Typically with radar detectors, they just scan a whole range of frequencies continuously. When it finds a strong source, it sticks on that freq. With radio, I assume you have to program presets into it, to indicate which frequency you want to listen too individually. The 15X has some sort of state feature so it has some built in knowledge I think. Does that mean you just have to thumb through the freqs, almost like using your car stereo with automatic preset favorites? Or does it automatically pick up traffic on all of those pre-programmed frequencies automatically? My goal is to also pick up the mobile extenders and air patrol stuff at the same time. With scanners, can you set a whole series of frequencies into a group or do you have to go through them one by one?
And on the beartracker system, I assume all that does is warn you as soon as you start picking up a mobile extender. Now onto the Nevada side. With the trunked system, how would I go about setting that up? Would that just be another preset with Nevada as the state or am I going to have to manually add all of the info for the trunked setup.
I hope all that makes sense. Basic questions, but I'm getting lost when trying to figure out how I'm going to have to setup the 15X.
Thanks
