Forz
Member
Hello folks,still pretty new here but have gotten so much info since joining.
I was really sick back in October 2010 and got ordered to bed rest and all of that crap which would last for quite some time so I decided that I needed some sort of hobby that didn't have a revolving door of payments to maintain it. So I remembered how much I enjoyed talking skip all over this country as well as other parts of the world so I ended up getting a couple of Cobra 148 GTL CB Radios along with a couple of mobile antennas and base antennas and set it all up.
Well,while talking on the CB there were periods of nothing'ness so I also remembered I enjoyed listening to the scanner so I pulled out my old Radio Shack 50channel analog manual programmable police scanner and looked up the local frequencies and programmed my scanner.
my neighbor was at the time the town's fire chief(I live in a small farm/cow-town)so I went to him to ask why i didn't seem to get much action on my scanner and he told me that things have changed since the early 1990's.
I couldnt afford a new scanner at the time so i just listened to what i could pick up with the EMT frequencies as well as the local airport and the planes coming and going.
Here it is 3 years later and i am now able to afford a new scanner so after a lot of research and asking around i bought the Uniden BCD 996XT and as i have been warned,they aren't like the old scanners.
Soooooo I am wondering if anyone knows of a good place i can read up on every aspect of this scanner and how to program it for my area and a couple of other areas that i frequent when i am working and also at friends' homes.
any info that would help me better understand my scanner and how to figure it out, would be very helpful.I thank you in advance for any advice-Forz/Scott
I was really sick back in October 2010 and got ordered to bed rest and all of that crap which would last for quite some time so I decided that I needed some sort of hobby that didn't have a revolving door of payments to maintain it. So I remembered how much I enjoyed talking skip all over this country as well as other parts of the world so I ended up getting a couple of Cobra 148 GTL CB Radios along with a couple of mobile antennas and base antennas and set it all up.
Well,while talking on the CB there were periods of nothing'ness so I also remembered I enjoyed listening to the scanner so I pulled out my old Radio Shack 50channel analog manual programmable police scanner and looked up the local frequencies and programmed my scanner.
my neighbor was at the time the town's fire chief(I live in a small farm/cow-town)so I went to him to ask why i didn't seem to get much action on my scanner and he told me that things have changed since the early 1990's.
I couldnt afford a new scanner at the time so i just listened to what i could pick up with the EMT frequencies as well as the local airport and the planes coming and going.
Here it is 3 years later and i am now able to afford a new scanner so after a lot of research and asking around i bought the Uniden BCD 996XT and as i have been warned,they aren't like the old scanners.
Soooooo I am wondering if anyone knows of a good place i can read up on every aspect of this scanner and how to program it for my area and a couple of other areas that i frequent when i am working and also at friends' homes.
any info that would help me better understand my scanner and how to figure it out, would be very helpful.I thank you in advance for any advice-Forz/Scott