Noob Alert... Programming Uniden BCD996P2

[KingEcho2BravoOscarDelta]

New to scanning and this forum.

Looks like a great, helpful resource.

I've managed to program some P25 police scanner frequencies, but I haven't been able to figure out how to add some local municipalities that are not listed in dB as using P25. Millburn and Maplewood are listed as using lower freq FM. I programmed one as a "conventional" system and got nothing but constant static on 0 squelch.

Are these municipalities using P25? Anyone monitoring any of these towns currently on a similar Uniden device?

LMK TIA

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

RRDB states the following:

Millburn​

New Jersey Interoperability Communications System (NJICS) Project 25 Phase II

Police Dispatch and Fire Operations are on this system.

Maplewood​

Maplewood Fire Department has officially switched to NJICS.

Police are still listed as conventional

154.815	153.920	WNAM473	RM	114.8 PL	PD Disp	Police Dispatch	FM	Law Dispatch
155.5725	153.9425	WPRG488	RM	114.8 PL	PD 2	Police	FMN	Law Talk

 

[KingEcho2BravoOscarDelta]

Ok, but I don't see Millburn and their frequencies listed in the P25 link.

What are the best frequencies in that area to use for P25?

 

[APX8000]

Millburn PD is on NJICS and encrypted.

 

[ka3aaa]

squelch is pretty much non existent in a trunked radio systems.
squelch set at zero is the looseist and means all you will hear is white noise or back round hash noise.
squelch set at 9 is the tightest and will block out most every signal unless your standing right on top of the signal.

squelch should be set at 2 or 3 and that will allow reception of most signal while blocking out the back round hash or white noise.

 

[wtp]

Rotate the SQ knob counter-clockwise all the way then clockwise until the noise stops, then one notch more.
that is from the "easy to read" manual,

Easier to Read BCD996P2/XT Digital Scanner Manual

so this would be the "hard to read" one,

https://www.uniden.info/download/ompdf/BCD996P2om.pdf