Hello, just wanted to drop a line and thank everyone in the Radio Reference Community!
I've been on the fence about buying my first ever scanner, but I was able to snag a BCD436HP from Amazon when they had it for $368...plus the additional cost of waiting a month and a half for delivery. I took the forced wait time to read the forum and learn. By the time Amazon finally shipped, I already knew how to turn on the scanner, perform the updates, and with the insights of RR have a well thought out plan as to how I was going to organize my scanning/favorites list(s).
I hope to be able to contribute something from everything that I have learned here. I know, I will trigger some folks when I say that my BCD436HP is working fine in my simulcast area. I learned so much from RR about distance from broadcast site factors, mitigation factors, and P25 decode adjustment and was very fortunate that I didn't have do do any Yagi antenna pointing or P25 adjustments because of my location.
That being said, I'm trying really hard to talk myself out of a SDS100/200 when my BCD436HP is working perfectly
I've been on the fence about buying my first ever scanner, but I was able to snag a BCD436HP from Amazon when they had it for $368...plus the additional cost of waiting a month and a half for delivery. I took the forced wait time to read the forum and learn. By the time Amazon finally shipped, I already knew how to turn on the scanner, perform the updates, and with the insights of RR have a well thought out plan as to how I was going to organize my scanning/favorites list(s).
I hope to be able to contribute something from everything that I have learned here. I know, I will trigger some folks when I say that my BCD436HP is working fine in my simulcast area. I learned so much from RR about distance from broadcast site factors, mitigation factors, and P25 decode adjustment and was very fortunate that I didn't have do do any Yagi antenna pointing or P25 adjustments because of my location.
That being said, I'm trying really hard to talk myself out of a SDS100/200 when my BCD436HP is working perfectly