Help with BCD996T (Digital, Trunked, SFBay)

[jchabalk]

Hi there, I've been watching these forums for a while but this is my first post.

I've had BCD996T for about a year. I've never really spent the time to dig into it fully. I've loaded it with local stuff and been able to scan analog just fine. I live in San Francisco Bay Area and i know there's a lot of digital frequencies i can be listening to.

Over the past few days i've been trying to figure out why i'm not getting anything from any trunked systems. I've loaded them both from FreeScan/RadioReference and also by hand i get nothing. It'll say "nothing to scan" if i pick the group, and otherwise it just blows right by them.

If i'm doing something wrong i don't know what it is. I've seen a couple of threads about a problem similar to this and the scanner needing to have the DSP reset. I don't have any reason to think my scanner's messed up although i did buy it second hand so i don't know its history.

If there's anything you guys could suggest i try i'd certainly appreciate it!

thanks in advance!

 

[Bucko]

You may want to check and make sure you have your TGID quick key is enabled for your system. I have forgot to do this myself in the past along with assigning a quick key for the system.

 

[jchabalk]

i think you might be onto something. i tried a few different things over the weekend and got it to work for the first time!

i'm rebuilding my configs now. i'll update this thread with my findings later on.

thanks for the help!