Good news... went outside with a long extension cord and it works just fine, guess the signal doesnt make it into the house anymore so gonna need an external antenna. Now to figure out why it only displays IDs when receiving and not the talk groups.
Look at the display when scanning that system. If you see
ID Search scrolling across the screen, then you will see 'only TGIDs' as well as ones you have programmed.
ID Scan stops only on talkgroups that are programmed, as long as they are not Avoided (locked out), and are not in a Department that is Avoided. The Service Type would need to be enabled as well. You would see the text tag you entered.
ID Search stops on
any active talkgroup, as long as it is not Avoided (you can Avoid (lockout) a talkgroup that is not programmed). If the talkgroup is already programmed, you would see the text tag that is associated with it. If the TGID is
NOT programmed, then the 'text tag' would simply be the talkgroup ID (no descriptive text). As the unprogrammed talkgroups are not classified with a Service Type, you would hear any that are active.
For your 996P2, you can toggle between ID Search and ID Scan by pressing the Function key then the Scan key. Do that fairly quickly. The Function key press will not remain active for more than a couple of seconds.
You can also use the menu to edit the system and set ID Scan there. But be sure to change it in your programming file as well; otherwise, the next time you load your file to the scanner, like after addind or changing something, the scanner will go back to ID Search again.
