Programming Richmond City into BC996T

[lanbergld]

Hi all, I just purchased a Uniden BCD996T. This is my first digital signal scanner. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong with setting-up the Richmond trunk.

I set the System for MOT Type 2/P25. I programmed-in all of the Richmond City frequencies listed in the Radio Reference datatbase. Including the control channels, of course. But when I do the trunk scan I receive nothing -- absolute zero.

Do I need to program-in a specified Band Plan also? The Radio Reference database gives no Band Plan for the Richmond City set.

Anyone advice anyone can give would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[tglendye]

Have you programmed the talkgroups in addition to the control channels?

 

[Jonesym20]

are you using software? if you are using software and have a premium account here, its really hard to mess up.

 

[lanbergld]

Thanks for your replies

Hi guys, Thanks for being kind enough to reply. Actually I figured out what I didn't do right:

At first I was programming Richmond's frequencies as P25 (I thought we were using APCO25 here), but, when I re-programmed the frequencies as "800 MHz Splinter" -- which also does digital apparently --then Boom! I got reception.

One thing's for sure, I'm tickled pink with the audio quality I'm getting from this Uniden. Its got that rich, full sound like a 50,000 W AM broadcast station.

Thank you again for replying.