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please? Help a newb program a rebanded trunk system into a bearcatbcd996xt(WA cnty)
Hello, as stated im a newbie at this scanning thing but loving it, i had an old 1989 scanner but have since moved up, two weeks ago i bought the uniden bearcatbcd996xt without pre programming, and love it greatly. so far its worked great for conventional freqs ive had no problems. but now i am trying to program my first trunked system and cant realy figure out what to put in each required field, im hoping someone can walk me through this step by step with a specific example, im trying to program Washington County / Clackamas County Oregon
Washington County / Clackamas County Trunking System, Various, Oregon - Scanner Frequencies
so far in setting up my site within the motorola system i believe i understood that i must use a custom band plan because of rebanding in the washington county / clackamas county area, i believe i read somewhere that i need to choose either band plan 1 or 2 but i cant remember why, i havnt been able to figure out what discerns these options of band plan 1 - 6, in selecting band plan 1 i need to set a base freq, totaly clueless here, the manual says "The Lower Base Frequency (or Base ) is always the base frequency as provided in the RRDB." im guessing that RRDB is radio reference database (maybe im wrong), looking in the database i dont know which is supposed to be the base freq. i guess the lowest of the list would be 851.87500, i got a feeling thats totaly not the freq i should be inputing, i tryed it, and used the spreadsheet inside the manual which did the math for me, the manual explained the math but i have yet to comprehend it, i got an answer of 852.7000 for the upper base, i hope it doesnt matter that this spreadsheet has a title of 'BCD396XT Entries' on the calculating table since i am using the bcd996xt, with that done i have only the option to enter frequencies i assume this is where this list of freqs on the link above come in, and then it seems i create a talk group within the system and input the channel, on the list within the database there is an option for DEC and HEX for each talk id, but i can only change the option for the system between HEX or DEC so how do i choose which should be used for scanning all the talk ids? does it matter? perhaps hex and dec are just two options and i can use either? or perhaps i should have two systems to have both hex and dec being scanned? help, please? and thank you.
Hello, as stated im a newbie at this scanning thing but loving it, i had an old 1989 scanner but have since moved up, two weeks ago i bought the uniden bearcatbcd996xt without pre programming, and love it greatly. so far its worked great for conventional freqs ive had no problems. but now i am trying to program my first trunked system and cant realy figure out what to put in each required field, im hoping someone can walk me through this step by step with a specific example, im trying to program Washington County / Clackamas County Oregon
Washington County / Clackamas County Trunking System, Various, Oregon - Scanner Frequencies
so far in setting up my site within the motorola system i believe i understood that i must use a custom band plan because of rebanding in the washington county / clackamas county area, i believe i read somewhere that i need to choose either band plan 1 or 2 but i cant remember why, i havnt been able to figure out what discerns these options of band plan 1 - 6, in selecting band plan 1 i need to set a base freq, totaly clueless here, the manual says "The Lower Base Frequency (or Base ) is always the base frequency as provided in the RRDB." im guessing that RRDB is radio reference database (maybe im wrong), looking in the database i dont know which is supposed to be the base freq. i guess the lowest of the list would be 851.87500, i got a feeling thats totaly not the freq i should be inputing, i tryed it, and used the spreadsheet inside the manual which did the math for me, the manual explained the math but i have yet to comprehend it, i got an answer of 852.7000 for the upper base, i hope it doesnt matter that this spreadsheet has a title of 'BCD396XT Entries' on the calculating table since i am using the bcd996xt, with that done i have only the option to enter frequencies i assume this is where this list of freqs on the link above come in, and then it seems i create a talk group within the system and input the channel, on the list within the database there is an option for DEC and HEX for each talk id, but i can only change the option for the system between HEX or DEC so how do i choose which should be used for scanning all the talk ids? does it matter? perhaps hex and dec are just two options and i can use either? or perhaps i should have two systems to have both hex and dec being scanned? help, please? and thank you.
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