My department has several Radio Shack PRO-106 and PRO-197 scanners that I've programmed using PSREdit500... I'm just wondering if I can use the same software and my existing file to program the Uniden BCD396XT?
It can be done, and the following workaround does work but no you can directly pull info from psredit into freescan.
I have both and you cant directly paste into freescan. Its the #1 IMO problem with fresscan as the program works great, use it a lot, but you cant do any column pasting into it all.
The workaround I have to do unfortunately, is to use Excel and the free 996T uasd from uniden. Cant find a download for it, but here I shared the drop box link for the install -
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n2bxbkjssypb0lh/BCD996T_UASD.zip
UASD is able to copy-paste to-from it columns of info and is the only reason I still have it installed.
You dont have to have a 996T radio to use uasd.
Now others will suggest is having a premium subscription here you could download to freescan that way, but if your like me, I have highly edited alpha text and settings I would not want to re-produce all over again.
What can be done is, highlight what you want in prsedit, copy, then paste into Excel.
Then copy one column of info needed from Excel all be it -> alpha text, frequencies or talkgroups.
Make a new 996T uasd file, match what your system your doing is conventional, p25, LTR, etc. makeup a name for the file.
You really dont have to be fancy with what you do with the uasd file since your just using as a conduit to get into freescan and there you can do all the final edits.
In uasd you'll have to push the 'new channel' button to match how much you'll be pasting in the 996T uasd.
Then go back to excel and grab the other column of info and paste into uasd.
Once done, save the 996t uasd file.
Now with freescan use the file import from uasd, then you can do all final edits there, priority, quickey, priority id scan etc.
I hope your able to follow the above info, all I can say is that at the end if done correctly all eleven systems file info will be in freescan from psredit500!