BC296D: Setting Control Channel Band Plan

[SCPD]

OK. Probably a dumb question, but here goes. I'm setting up my scanner for the Franklin County Ohio Public Safety. It's a Motorola Type II System. I want to only use the Control Channel frequencies. The format of the frequencies is XXX.XXXXX where the last digit always seems to be a 0. My ARC 250 software and my scanner only seem to format taken to 4 decimal places. I'm assuming that is ok and not inputting the 5th position 0 isn't going to impact anything, right? So if this is true, do I ignore that last zero when trying to determine the 'ending' number for the Band Plan?

Example - one of the published Control frequencies indicates "858.01250c". So for Band Plan figuring is the final 3 numbers "125" or "250"?

Right when you think you understand things!!! Wrong for me.

 

[ecps92]

800 Mhz channels at this time only need out to the 4th digit after the decimal point.
You can drop that extra zero and then figure the band plan based on the 4 digits not the 5

OK. Probably a dumb question, but here goes. I'm setting up my scanner for the Franklin County Ohio Public Safety. It's a Motorola Type II System. I want to only use the Control Channel frequencies. The format of the frequencies is XXX.XXXXX where the last digit always seems to be a 0. My ARC 250 software and my scanner only seem to format taken to 4 decimal places. I'm assuming that is ok and not inputting the 5th position 0 isn't going to impact anything, right? So if this is true, do I ignore that last zero when trying to determine the 'ending' number for the Band Plan?

Example - one of the published Control frequencies indicates "858.01250c". So for Band Plan figuring is the final 3 numbers "125" or "250"?

Right when you think you understand things!!! Wrong for me.

 

[SCPD]

Thanks so much Bill for the quick reply. It's really nice having such a wonderful Forum like we have here. Now back to programming. Chuck