Orange County Help with 996XT

[waltmapb]

I added a 996XT to my shack and can't seem to figure out how to program Orange County using FreeSCAN.
Is it a Motorola 800 Mhz Standard (Type II) or Motorola Custom/Rebanded Type II?
Is there an APCO 25 Band Plan ?

If its the rebanded type do I use the custom band plan on the East Central Florida Scanner website?

It sorta works as a 800 Mhz Standard but gets a lot of talk groups that are just static. If I try the Custom/Rebanded type it doesn't seem to track properly.

Phil

 

[ka3jjz]

If you're talking about this system

Orange County Public Services (FL) Trunking System, Orlando, Florida - Scanner Frequencies

then see the FreeScan example in

Software Support for Uniden Rebanding

See the site type; note you will need a custom table. If you download from the database, FreeScan will set up the custom tables for you; but the article also gives you the values you will need if you choose to do it manually. Ignore the Apco band plan - it's a basically useless screen that was there for future use, but it seems, at least so far, no system uses it.

best regards...Mike

 

[ka3jjz]

I also note that it's a multi site system. It's best to program only those site(s) that are physically closest to you - and be aware that if it simulcasts digital talkgroups across all sites, distortion issues are likely to occur. This article in our wiki goes into this in some detail

Simulcast digital distortion - The RadioReference Wiki

73 Mike

 

[ka3jjz]

I just looked at the custom band plan on the East Coast Florida site, and it is incorrect. The first base frequency should be 851.025, not 851.0125.

I don't know if the gentleman who runs that site is here, but I'm going to send him an email with the correction. Hopefully not too many folks have been lead a bit astray by this.

73 Mike

 

[ka3jjz]

OK the custom table has been fixed - but the custom table as shown is only good for Uniden scanners. RS and GRE models use a slightly different custom table.

Section 7 of the rebanding article in the wiki has links to all the necessary changes, if anyone needs them.

best regards..Mike

 

[waltmapb]

Thanks - the settings are working.
If your talking about the East Central Florida site the frequency is still incorrect.

 

[ka3jjz]

If you looked at that site previously, do a page refresh or purge your history cache, and you'll see that it has been changed.

Glad to hear you got it working best regards..Mike