Is anyone here using a Bearcat BC796D?

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copsreporter

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Monroe, Michigan
I'm the cops reporter at the Monroe Evening News and have been trying to get everything all set up everything on this new Uniden. Is anyone else getting anything other than 866.800? It seems to be the sheriff's dispatch... or am I just getting minor things because I don't have talkgroups programmed yet?

So far, I haven't been too impressed with the digital traffic I've heard.

Any help anyone a little more experienced than me can offer would be great. Makes it tough to do my job when my ears are taken away from me.

Thanks,
Dan eizans
 

seamusg

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I have a BC796D and a PRO-96. I can't hear Monroe County since I'm in Macomb. To program the scanner, use Control Channel Only to program it. The database shows 868.4 as the control channel for Monroe. Program this in and to see all activity set the ID SEARCH MODE on the radio. Control Channel only programing is on page 45 of the manual and ID SEARCH is on pg 23. Hope your are using the software to program it, it is a lot easier.
 

n8chb

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hi,

I have heard a hand full of groups from Monroe
on Northville, Ann Arbor and Flat Rock towers.
The Sheriff, Fire and ems is all I've heard so far
I think you will have to wait for others to switch over.

In the mean time you might try programing Flat Rock.

I am a bit disappointed myself because unlike the old
State Police system I heard everything all over the state.


Site ID: T0205
Control Frequency: 868.975
Licensed to: Flat Rock
County: Wayne
Licensed Frequencies: 866.475 866.975 867.475 867.85 867.975 868.475 868.975

note: The BC796D will not ID SEARCH without at least 2 ID numbers in memory.


73,

Roger - N8CHB
 
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