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On my BC 296D, is it possible to program in the same bank two different control freqs? In other words (hypothetical):

If I want to condense Baltimore City and Anne Arundal County into one bank, is it possible, or will it interfere with one another?

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Even if it's possible, are you sure you want to? That's a lot of TG's... AA has over 100, and Baltimore has even more... if you wanted to listen to a very specific set of talkgroups, sure.

If this isn't possible now, start saving for the 396T. It's not going to have "banks" and "lists" so this problem of only being able to trunk X number of systems per radio will go away.
 

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cohenner5377 said:
On my BC 296D, is it possible to program in the same bank two different control freqs? In other words (hypothetical):

If I want to condense Baltimore City and Anne Arundal County into one bank, is it possible, or will it interfere with one another?

Thanks!

No, because the scanner must have 1 control channel to lock on for each system. You may have conventional and trunked in the same bank, but 2 different trunk systems must be in 2 banks.

It makes sense, really, if you think about it.

73s Mike
 

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Yes, this is possible on the uniden 296D ..I specificly remember the manual saying that you can put MORE than one system in ONE BANK....How and why ??? I dont wanna know !!!
 

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I have heard of people doing it with systems that are far away from each other...such as a system in Baltimore, and a seperate system in New York. But as for two local systems such as Baltimore and Anne Arundel, I wouldn't think that's possible because I would think the scanner might get confused... but that's just me... I don't know much at all about Moto systems or 296d's.

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David, I know you're receiving conflicting advice on this thread, however, all the Uniden manuals for their trunktracking capable scanners specifically say you CANNOT enter two trunks into one bank. You can mix a trunk and conventional frequencies in the same bank.

There is one "almost" exception to this but it doesn't work very well. I've experimented with putting two military UHF trunked systems in the same bank - only if they have the same base frequency. For instance, I programmed Fort Meade and Andrews AFB into a single bank. Sometimes it stops on the Ft Meade control channel and other times on Andrews. The talkgroups that result from this are correct but only because they use totally different talkgroup schemes. If both nets used similar talkgroup numbers, you wouldn't get correct results. This scheme also does not give consistant results. Sometimes it will stop on Ft Meade 10 times in a row and never see Andrews and other times it will be the reverse. The scanner stops on the first control channel it comes to in a bank and will ignore the other one which is why you can't generally put two different trunked nets into one bank.

Over the years there have been scattered reports of people successfully managing to accomplish two trunks per bank but none that I've seen can be replicated when you try them.
 

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I've got three trunked systems per bank in my Unidens, but as the others have pointed out, they're all seperated by at least 80 miles each. This keeps the scanner from finding more than one CC per bank.
 

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Absolutely it can be done that way as long as they aren't in the same area so the scanner can see more than one system. There's no doubt about that but putting more than one from the same area just doesn't want to work.
 
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