Help With B296

[parrotrents]

I have loved scannering on and off since i was a kid im 29 now and coming off the longest time "off" in other words i havent messed with scanners for about 4 years (9/11 ish when i was living in Columbia Maryland)

I now live in northcarolina and have the 296D and i programmed a bunch of stuff using the enclosed computer software but it doesnt seem to be working right.

When i set it to scan it finds a channel, it monitors the channel and then "squelches out" for lack of a better word. on that channel when i go through the keypad and try to fix the trunking it asks me all kinds of questions i dont know the answers too.

now i have a Radio Shack Pro-95 maybe (the model before 96) and ya know if you hit scan and trunk it just goes and does its thing. how can i get the 296 to do the same thing?

issue 2...

the manual for 296d says that i can change the audio quality on the APCO 25 transmissions by pressing 9 and then setting something? Where do i do this?

i gotta do this because my Digital transmissions sound like charlie browns teacher right now

all help appreciated greatly


Confused Kyle in High Point NC

 

[John_M]

Issue #1 be a little more specific.

 

[parrotrents]

John
I have used some of the lists of scanner frequencies, trunk frequencies and talk group ids from bearcat1.com i followed the instructions and it seems that the scanner is for all intents and purposes "programmed"

now when i turn it on it finds a channel that has a transmission on it. At the end of that transmission there is a lot of static and white noise or whatever you want to call it until i manually hit scan, it doesnt matter where i have the squelch knob set.

any ideas?

kyle

 

[John_M]

Make sure you have the mode for each frequency set properly.
You stumbled upon a great site. Get your frequency and trunk information
from RadioReference. Edit your question. Reference it to the BC296D.
Some people may not know what you are talking about when reading
B296. I won't be back until 1:00am but other people will get you pointed in the right direction.

 

[loumaag]

Moving to the Uniden Fourm where it might get more attention.