My Uniden BCD996XT was receiving Rankin 800MHz county fine until a few weeks ago (stopped working right sometime between August 1 and September 1). Am I the only one having this problem?
FYI - I provide the Rankin county feed online and that BCT8 scanner receives fine BUT it is analog only as opposed to the 996 analog/digital. I have a theory but someone please prove me wrong. I came back from Birmingham the other day and my scanner started receiving Rankin fine about 30 miles out from Rankin county. Once in Jackson I stopped hearing Rankin again. I noticed a reband message on the Central MS feed (RR website) at July 30 with a control channel freq the same as Rankin (853.3125). Are these control channels overriding each other? I switched to search instead of scan mode and started hearing Jackson talking on Rankin frequencies. It may have always been that way but I don't remember it. My theory is that maybe driving back into Jackson I was too far away from the Central MS tower so Rankin was the only control channel my scanner was listening to, in effect, it worked fine. Once in Jackson I must be listening to the Central MS control channel.
BTW - I was running the latest firmware prior to this problem and I have reloaded fresh frequencies from the RR database multiple times but still have the problem.
FYI - I provide the Rankin county feed online and that BCT8 scanner receives fine BUT it is analog only as opposed to the 996 analog/digital. I have a theory but someone please prove me wrong. I came back from Birmingham the other day and my scanner started receiving Rankin fine about 30 miles out from Rankin county. Once in Jackson I stopped hearing Rankin again. I noticed a reband message on the Central MS feed (RR website) at July 30 with a control channel freq the same as Rankin (853.3125). Are these control channels overriding each other? I switched to search instead of scan mode and started hearing Jackson talking on Rankin frequencies. It may have always been that way but I don't remember it. My theory is that maybe driving back into Jackson I was too far away from the Central MS tower so Rankin was the only control channel my scanner was listening to, in effect, it worked fine. Once in Jackson I must be listening to the Central MS control channel.
BTW - I was running the latest firmware prior to this problem and I have reloaded fresh frequencies from the RR database multiple times but still have the problem.