I'm a BCD996T noob now! :P

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I Just received my new BCD996T from Scanner Master, came in only 3 days, a record for me as my other radios took more than 2 weeks. Not too bad getting started on it as its just like the 396T of course, albeit with a few more bells and whistles :D.
 
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cpuerror

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congradulations on your purchase... i have a 996 and a dx-300 too. But man, does that dx-300 ever involve a lot of dial turning to tune it.
 

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Im out of town right now but will send you the foles i have on monday evening. Can you PM me your email adress??? A little tip for you. When programing channels taht are digital make shure the seting in the scanner is set to digital. Better sound quality.
 

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I have some stuff I *just* pulled off my 996 today for another user.. I'll zip 'em up and post them here, if I have time before work.
 

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Here are my 996 files for ARC996PRO, guys. Be aware that they were pulled off my 996 last night and some channels/groups/etc are locked out because of my listening tastes/abilities (i.e. either I don't care to hear them or I have another radio to hear them on, so I want the scanner listening to something else). When reading the files, make sure that the channels you do want are unlocked.

These will also have half-decent lat/long information for most of the files. Some of the ones I want on all the time (RCMP, Alberta Wide, etc) deliberately don't have position information. Others which I want OFF all the time, unless I manually enable them (BCAS, BCFS) also don't have position information.

If you don't have ARC996, you can view these files with a text editor, but the format is not as simple as the UASD format, so you can't easily plunk this into an Excel spreadsheet by renaming it to a .csv file. And you can't export anything from ARC996 to CSV or other formats. Sorry.

Somebody make me a Linux control program/programmer/database for the 996 and I'll switch to that in a heartbeat. :D
 
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DX-300

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Thank you for the file Jay, I went big and I have ARC996 PRO as well :D so no prob. And thanks in advance for the assistance HD.
 
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