Hello,
I'm brand new to this forum, a brand new Premium subscriber, and the brand new owner of a BCD396XT with the GPS receiver and USB computer connection cable. I live in the Jacksonville area, but I'm getting ready for a road trip that will take me through GA, AL, MS, AL, & TX, and I wanted to prepare my scanner for the trip.
Are there any tutorials or "cheat sheet" pages I can look at to explain the process? I've installed FreeScan, and plan to use that. Is it reasonable to assume that I can get the basic public safety frequencies for those areas in this scanner, or will I need to update it for the various regions as I go?
I haven't put anything into it yet, because I wanted the benefit of the collective experience here, rather than do it wrong and have to redo it. I'm not new to computers (been in software development for many years), or radios (I've had lots of SW receivers and Analog Scanners), but I am new to Digital Scanners, Trunking, etc., so I'm reading up on all that stuff, now...
Thanks for any assistance,
Mark
I'm brand new to this forum, a brand new Premium subscriber, and the brand new owner of a BCD396XT with the GPS receiver and USB computer connection cable. I live in the Jacksonville area, but I'm getting ready for a road trip that will take me through GA, AL, MS, AL, & TX, and I wanted to prepare my scanner for the trip.
Are there any tutorials or "cheat sheet" pages I can look at to explain the process? I've installed FreeScan, and plan to use that. Is it reasonable to assume that I can get the basic public safety frequencies for those areas in this scanner, or will I need to update it for the various regions as I go?
I haven't put anything into it yet, because I wanted the benefit of the collective experience here, rather than do it wrong and have to redo it. I'm not new to computers (been in software development for many years), or radios (I've had lots of SW receivers and Analog Scanners), but I am new to Digital Scanners, Trunking, etc., so I'm reading up on all that stuff, now...
Thanks for any assistance,
Mark