New 396XT has weird sites for MI

[dnoyeb]

I just bought a 396XT. By default it has the Michigan digital system programmed to it. But in this system there are 40+ sites. Each site has several frequencies. If I look at the database, these are not limited to control channels. I was going to try and match the sites in the radio to the ones in the DB, but the radio doesen't match.

I deleted the sites, then added just 2 for the towers near me. And I used just the control channels. The radio seems to work better. Any idea what the default sites are or why they are what they are for this Uniden scanner?

 

[DaveIN]

At the time the radio was introduced, the frequencies came from the Radioreference current data, but I'm sure it rapidly getting old for may tower sites. That's the problem with a static frequency set in a radio memory. At least the user can download the latest frequency data using programs such as FreeSCAN or ARCXT.