I was looking at buying a BCT996XT for myself and my wife found out and purchased me one for a Valentines day gift.
She got it in and couldn't resist giving it to me early.
I have been playing with it the past 24 hours and I have got to be honest, I don't really like it.
First off I only really listen to one thing and that is my towns Police and Fire departments. Those agencies are on the same LTR trunked system. With the BCT996XT it is missing a lot of the calls.
I have a handheld 396T which is side by side with the 996XT and it catches a lot of the traffic that the 996 is late to tune in.
I have both set with the 4 frequenceies that my town users in the same order. I have the same Talkgroups programmed in. And this is the only thing I am scanning is this one group.
Closecall is turned off, WX alerts are turned off, I am only ID scanning the one town. The 396T picks up most everything at the start of the transmission, while the 996 tuned in a few seconds after the transmission has started.
I can't have this scanner if I can't tune in what I want to hear.
It also seems like a waste to me to have a scanner that can store a gazillion frequencies when you cant really scann them because you will miss everything... (but thats just me)
I am also not to impressed with the digital reception, I programmed in the Connecticut State police and still most voices sounded like robots on those transmissions. I was hoping that the Digital sound would be better in the 996XT over the 396T.
Any advice how I can speed this thing up so I dont miss calls. I have wiped the unit and again am now on one group just for my local town, the rest of the scanner is empty.
Or should I just pack it up and send it back to scanner master? If yes do you think the BCT15X would be better or should I look for a 396T.
Thank you for any insight!
She got it in and couldn't resist giving it to me early.
I have been playing with it the past 24 hours and I have got to be honest, I don't really like it.
First off I only really listen to one thing and that is my towns Police and Fire departments. Those agencies are on the same LTR trunked system. With the BCT996XT it is missing a lot of the calls.
I have a handheld 396T which is side by side with the 996XT and it catches a lot of the traffic that the 996 is late to tune in.
I have both set with the 4 frequenceies that my town users in the same order. I have the same Talkgroups programmed in. And this is the only thing I am scanning is this one group.
Closecall is turned off, WX alerts are turned off, I am only ID scanning the one town. The 396T picks up most everything at the start of the transmission, while the 996 tuned in a few seconds after the transmission has started.
I can't have this scanner if I can't tune in what I want to hear.
It also seems like a waste to me to have a scanner that can store a gazillion frequencies when you cant really scann them because you will miss everything... (but thats just me)
I am also not to impressed with the digital reception, I programmed in the Connecticut State police and still most voices sounded like robots on those transmissions. I was hoping that the Digital sound would be better in the 996XT over the 396T.
Any advice how I can speed this thing up so I dont miss calls. I have wiped the unit and again am now on one group just for my local town, the rest of the scanner is empty.
Or should I just pack it up and send it back to scanner master? If yes do you think the BCT15X would be better or should I look for a 396T.
Thank you for any insight!