lacountyscanner
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guess what. since im inpatient and did not want to wait on an internet order on anything. i called the local radio shack to ask what scanners they have in stock. the only one they had was the BCD396T. that of course is one i have been looking at for sometime now. $656.00 out the door. WAIT! I already know thats too much to pay for this scanner. if i end up liking it i will buy online. so no matter what this one will be returned. first off i had to dig out old pc so i can use the serial port on it and try some software out. it seems by using freescan and another one i downloaded. forgot the name of that one. its on the old pc. im on newer one now. anyway, it seems i have added all the los angeles county things available . its amazing how when i have both my scanners on the BCD396T will be doing nothing and then when somehing comes on that i have in my private bank on the bc350c, it comes on at the same time with the BCD396T. so basically what im saying is shouldn't i be hearing more on this thing. i have heard lakewood, century and a couple other lapd and lafd P25 frequencies. that seems to be the only "NEW" things im hearing. NO....i have not read manual yet. so i don't know what P25 even is. is it trunking? wheres all this trunking im always reading people talk about. am i too far away to hear all of la county. i just don't see how its possible if ALL of la county is programmed in there then why is it silent most of the time? does this go back to the antenna issue? as gmclan said - "In other words you are not going to hear any better than what your antenna can "see".
