Need Help

jwampler · Nov 22, 2004

I have a BC785D Uniden Scanner with the APCO P-25 Digital Card installed. I have tryed and tryed to set this thing up to hear the Indiana State Police (Bremen and other close districts) I have read the instructions numerous times, with very little luck. Every once in a while I do hear some traffic, however I can not hear all of this traffic. Is there somone out there who could possibly make this easy for me to figure out.
I am felling pretty stupid, after having conventional scanners all of my life.

SCPD · Nov 27, 2004

hello- do you have all of the channels programmed in? if the system is big. there maybe more than one data channel. as i am not from that area, i cant tell you more than that, except that the digital card is a no brainer. if its digital -it decodes it regardless of what uniden tech support may tell you.

if you dont have alot of channels programmed,(hopefully backed up with software) you can do a reset.

hold 2 9 manual/hold in while turning the radio on.

sometimes static electricity can make the card not decode but in my experience this is pretty rare.

one more thing- did you change the audio quality settings? if you did, you may want to put then back to the original settings.

hope this helps
bill simpson

jwampler · Nov 29, 2004

Thanks for you input I need all the help I can get.

I have all of the channels for several different antenna locations within a fifty mile radius. I did notice that there is a different data channel for every antenna site. All of these data channels have been programmed into the same bank on my scanner, along with the normal channels. I have them labeled per antenna location.
Also the digital card does decode. I can hear portions of the traffic if I am not in the trunked mode. In other words I hear alot more traffic in conventional scan with the digital card enabled. Now dont take this wrong, I have also heard some traffic in trunking mode, however not nearly as often.
I have not backed anything up nor do I have a cable to link the scanner to the computer. Do you recomend this? Could you advise of a possible supplier to get this cable and software from?
I also do not believe that I changed the audio quality settings.
Thank You!

SCPD · Nov 30, 2004

what you want to do- go to your local computer store and buy a db9 female to db9 male . this is provided you have a serial port on your computer.
there are lots of software out there. my favorite is scancat gold from computer aided technoligies. you can try out this software by going to

www.scancat.com

i would back up everthing you have and then separate the different systems with their current data channels into different banks. remember there can be only one data channel per bank. if you need to know what ids are on different data channels, try scancat gold se. it has a modilw in it thats called cat trunker. this will follow the data as it is found with out programming the whole system in (data chanel only). that way you can see what ids are on each data channel.

hope this helps
bill simpson

jwampler · Dec 1, 2004

getting closer I hope!

so since I have several data chanels in one bank, could this be causing my problem?
Thanks again think Iam getting closer, and thanks for the info for the computer connection...

Dubbin · Dec 1, 2004