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From the manual, How to program,
STEP 1: Selecting Trunking System Type
The first step in a Trunk Tracking system is storing the frequencies in one of the five
available banks in your scanner.
1. Press TRUNK for 1.5 seconds.
You will hear two beeps, and “BANK” and “TRUNK” will begin to flash on the display.
2. Select the bank you want to store the frequency by using the
keypad.
3. Select the system you want to track by using the Down arrow or Up arrow key,
then press E.
List of trunking systems as follows:
Ed (EDACS® Wide Band: 9600 band)***
*** Requires programming of frequencies in exact order and location.
STEP 2: Programming Trunking Frequencies
1. Select and press E. Use the keypad and (decimal key) to enter a frequency
for the trunked system.
For example, enter .
Note: To clear a mistake while entering a frequency, press (decimal key) twice, and start over.
2. Then press E.
The “E” (EDACS) appears .
If the frequency is out of the range of the system chosen in this step, you will hear an error tone, the channel number flashes and an error message appears on the display.
3. Use the Up or Down key to select the next channel in the bank and press E.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until all frequencies have been entered.
5. Press SRCH to begin searching the bank you‘ve
programmed.
Then select the programmed bank by using the keypad.
* Remember! To lockout the keypad to prevent re-programming of talkgroups, you can
use Memory Lock (Refer to “Memory Lock” on page 22).
Hint: If you want to return to the previous menu screen, press HOLD/RESUME in the
Trunk Programming mode.
Programming Talk Group ID/Scan Lists
Scan Lists
Each bank of your BCT8 can be a trunk tracking bank and it can be a conventional scanning
bank. When you designate a bank as a trunking bank, your scanner sets up 5 Scan Lists,
which are simply lists used to store your favorite Talk Group IDs. Each list can contain up to
10 IDs, so you can store a total of 50 IDs for each trunk tracking bank. (250 IDs if you use
all the banks as trunking banks!)
Scan Lists help you organize the trunking system users into categories. For example, you
might use List#1 for police IDs, List#2 for fire department IDs, List#3 for emergency medical
service IDs, etc. Once IDs are stored in lists, you can scan them as you scan conventional
frequencies and you can lockout any one (up to 4) of the 5 Scan Lists by pressing the
corresponding numeric key. When an ID is active, the Scan List number will appear on the
display. You can program your Scan Lists either manually or during Trunking Search mode.
In order to program Talk Group ID’s, you must first complete Step1–“Selecting Trunking
System Type”, page 30 and Step 2 – “Programming Trunking Frequencies”, page 31.
1. After programming a frequency, press HOLD/RESUME to return to the main screen of
system type selected and select . Then press E.
2. Select the Scan List location by using the Up or Down key.
3. Enter the Talk Group IDs for each trunk system as follows.
To enter a Full EDACS ID®:
1. Enter the Agency number.
2. Press (decimal key) for the “dash”.
3. Enter the Fleet number and Subfleet number.
4. Press E.
To enter a Partial EDACS® ID:
1. Enter the Agency number you want to store.
Use the (decimal key) for the "dash".
2. Press E.
Or you can program all the Talk Group numbers within one fleet of an Agency.
1. Enter the Agency number.
2. Press (decimal key) for the “dash”.
3. Enter the Fleet number.
4. Press E.
Hint: Remember that Uniden's AFS format allows you to enter full or partial EDACS IDs for
powerful flexibility in all modes. Be sure to read the section "EDACS Reception" on
page 39 to learn how this works.
Note: The BCT8 default to "AFS" talkgroup displays for EDACS® only.
Receiving Trunked Systems
When you have properly programmed all the frequencies for a trunked system, you can monitor the system in several different ways. You will find that Search, Hold, Lockout, Scan and Delay are all similar to conventional scanning.
❖ ID SCAN lets you receive those talkgroups that you store in Scan Lists.
❖ ID SCAN HOLD lets you selectively listen to a talkgroup in your Scan Lists.
❖ ID SEARCH lets you hear all system talkgroup activity. This is the best way to get
started.
❖ ID SEARCH HOLD works with Search mode to let you quickly freeze reception on an
interesting transmission. Or you can manually specify a talkgroup with DIRECT
ENTRY in ID HOLD.
❖ ID LOCKOUT works with Search and Scan to exclude talkgroups that you don't want
to hear.
❖ ID DELAY works with each talkgroup to be delayed when the communication ends.
When receiving EDACS systems, remember that Uniden's AFS talkgroups give you powerful
flexibility. In a few key presses, you can specify a single talkgroup, a fleet, or an entire
agency in all the above modes. Read the section "EDACS Reception" to understand how
this works.
Hint: If the scanner is not in the Trunking mode, you can enter the Trunk mode by pressing
TRUNK. Pressing TRUNK in the Trunking mode will move to the Private Scan Hold
mode.
Programming EDACS System Frequencies
When you program EDACS frequencies, it is critical that you store each one in the
CORRECT LOCATION. By the nature of EDACS systems this is necessary for tracking. This
often is not the frequency order, so you must be sure you have the right sequence. Sources
for this information can be found at scanner.uniden.com.
AL