STiMULi
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Besides that you are not "wasting" memory if you are accomplishing a goal you would have otherwise not been able to do without repeating the freqs.
6000 memory loactions is alot!
6000 memory loactions is alot!
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W1PC
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safetyobc said:
I could do that but , as I said in my original post, it seems like a waste of memory (not that I'm going to come even close to using up all 6,000 memory slots!) and I have to come up with different names for essentially the same system.
If you decide to use the multi-system scan and want to cover all the current available talkgroup combinations, all the conventional frequencies and CTCSS/DCS combinations, and all the alpha tags for a metro-area city, then you just may need that additional memory.
For what you need to do I think you will do just fine. Just assign them to System Quick keys and Group Quick keys in the order you want and still not use up all your memory.
For what you need to do I think you will do just fine. Just assign them to System Quick keys and Group Quick keys in the order you want and still not use up all your memory.
W1PC
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safetyobc said:
I guess that's what I'll do. Not complaining, mind you because I think this is one heck of a scanner. I'm just trying to tap the collective wisdom of the users of this forum to set it up the most efficient way possible.
Thanks all.
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Another 996 programming question-
The Kentucky State Police has 16 posts spread throughout the state. They use a UHF P25 Conventional (not trunked) system. Each post has a number of frequencies assigned to it, some of which are common to other posts.
It looks like the programming could lend itself well, setting up each post as its own site with the associated frequencies and GPS coordinates. That way as one travels into a given post area, the scanner will turn itself on to the appropriate frequencies. However, the programming software doesn't allow multiple sites for non-trunked systems, as best as I can tell. I know I could set up each post as its own system, but like I said, the multiple site setup may be better.
Am I missing something that will allow multiple sites in a conventional system?
The Kentucky State Police has 16 posts spread throughout the state. They use a UHF P25 Conventional (not trunked) system. Each post has a number of frequencies assigned to it, some of which are common to other posts.
It looks like the programming could lend itself well, setting up each post as its own site with the associated frequencies and GPS coordinates. That way as one travels into a given post area, the scanner will turn itself on to the appropriate frequencies. However, the programming software doesn't allow multiple sites for non-trunked systems, as best as I can tell. I know I could set up each post as its own system, but like I said, the multiple site setup may be better.
Am I missing something that will allow multiple sites in a conventional system?
W1PC said:
I'd think the reason behind multiple sites and GPS configurations is so that you won't try to hear something that isn't there.
Let's say you are leaving town and there's a major bank robbery the ensuing chase (the kind you only see on TV). If you have your system shut off 100' after you leave the city, you won't hear that "good stuff" even though you are still in radio range.
What you really want to do is have your radio shut off that system once you get past the coverage area. Thus having a buffer around the city area won't necessarily be a bad thing.
ofd8001 said:
That's what happens if you have it setup to do so, by the size of the coverage area you have stored in your longitude/latitude. If you want another system setup with conventional frequencies, including the point-to-point or interstate police frequencies, you just create a larger circle area.
ruarc
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> Doing this with the 396T allowed access to the "secret features" and ultimately the settings I list above.
I tried it on my 396, and see nothing different in the settings. ??
I tried it on my 396, and see nothing different in the settings. ??
ruarc
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b52hbuff said:
The latest, 1.11.03.
Ok, the go here to see how to access the new 'hidden' features.ruarc said:
http://www.uniden.com/files/BCD396T Firmware Revision Notes.pdf
teebee
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700Mhz Programing
Okay, Just received my 996 today. I am using UASD. I am trying to program a Louisiana LATIE 700 system. When I try and set this up through the system editor putting in the 700 CC freq. I get a message "Frequency Out Of Range". I used the option for system type Motorola Type II/P25. I am not sure what site type to put in.
Also one other system that is a Motorola Type II 800 system is Analog and APCO-25. (East Baton Rouge Parish Public Safety System). Again in Site Settings which settings do I use to monitor standard and digital 800Mhz Standard or P25.
Okay, Just received my 996 today. I am using UASD. I am trying to program a Louisiana LATIE 700 system. When I try and set this up through the system editor putting in the 700 CC freq. I get a message "Frequency Out Of Range". I used the option for system type Motorola Type II/P25. I am not sure what site type to put in.
Also one other system that is a Motorola Type II 800 system is Analog and APCO-25. (East Baton Rouge Parish Public Safety System). Again in Site Settings which settings do I use to monitor standard and digital 800Mhz Standard or P25.
teebee said:
If it is a mixed mode system, it is 800 MHz standard and Type 2/P25. full digital systems would use the P25 site setting.
Use the Type 2/P25 and the P25 site setting for your 700 MHz system
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compubandit
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Out of the box
Well I would have to say the air has been let out of my bubble. Just got the BCD996T unpackaged and finally programmed. I have it running beside my Pro-2096, each running the KASIS system (Motorola II/P25) and the Pro-2096 blows the BCD996T out of the water. Maybe it will get better once I tweak it, but out of the box, I am not impressed.
Well I would have to say the air has been let out of my bubble. Just got the BCD996T unpackaged and finally programmed. I have it running beside my Pro-2096, each running the KASIS system (Motorola II/P25) and the Pro-2096 blows the BCD996T out of the water. Maybe it will get better once I tweak it, but out of the box, I am not impressed.
By "blows it out of the water" do you have something that has meaning? Reception? Sensitivity? Audio? P25 decoding?
compubandit
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There is a delay in the amount of time the 996 picks up what the 2096 is already transmitting. Then the 996 seems to cut out while the 2096 is seemless in it's transmission. The audio seems okay but is hard to tell when it is cutting out. The scan seems to be slow on the 996 as compared to the 2096.
It would be nice if there was a way to pick up unassigned transmissions with the talkgroups enabled. Otherwise in the search mode it doesn't assign the texted assigned to the talkgroup number.
It would be nice if there was a way to pick up unassigned transmissions with the talkgroups enabled. Otherwise in the search mode it doesn't assign the texted assigned to the talkgroup number.
If you don't program the scanner with an alpha tag for the talkgroup - it would have no idea what text you want to assign to it...
compubandit
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Agreed but with the 2096, if you don't have that talkgroup identified with an alpha tag, it will give you the number of the talkgroup that is transmitting. That way if they assign a new talkgroup to someone, you will still get the transmission.
With the 996 you have to be in the search mode for it to give you all of the talkgroup traffic yet it doesn't tell you what ones you already have alpha tagged.
With the 996 you have to be in the search mode for it to give you all of the talkgroup traffic yet it doesn't tell you what ones you already have alpha tagged.
I'd recheck the programming - in ID SEARCH mode it should list the alphatags of everything you have programmed, and talkgroup number only for those you haven't.
It sounds like you are comparing Open/Closed Bank, with ID Scan/Search. What's the difference? They perform the same basic function..If you had the bank closed (IE ID Scan Mode) on the 2096 you wouldn't get any new ID's either. You have to have the bank open, IE ID Search Mode
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