HelixArray
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First question:
I finally programmed my BCT15x scanner to my liking as I begin familiarizing myself with it, so far so good. I want to utilize the Close Call feature, in particular the Do not Disturb mode. I set it to CC DND and scan my favorite conventional system group. Fire/rescue were a few houses down(less than 100 yards) last week keying up but my CC light never lit up, and I never heard an alert tone. Do I have a wrong setting enabled? When I first received the scanner I would get CC alerts from a fast food place that is about 600 yards away.
Second question:
I leave my scanner on record via "Xcorder" software, it uses the microphone jack(pink) on my PC soundcard. I did have the REC jack on the back of my scanner feeding into my input jack(blue) on my PC soundcard so I could hear the scanner while simultaneously listening to other things on the PC from the soundcard speaker/earphone jack. So my question is, how can I feed my scanner into my soundcard input jack while still recording it? I was thinking I could hook the scanners earphone jack to the soundcard input jack but I am unsure if it would work or if it would even possibly damage it?
Thanks for any input.
I finally programmed my BCT15x scanner to my liking as I begin familiarizing myself with it, so far so good. I want to utilize the Close Call feature, in particular the Do not Disturb mode. I set it to CC DND and scan my favorite conventional system group. Fire/rescue were a few houses down(less than 100 yards) last week keying up but my CC light never lit up, and I never heard an alert tone. Do I have a wrong setting enabled? When I first received the scanner I would get CC alerts from a fast food place that is about 600 yards away.
Second question:
I leave my scanner on record via "Xcorder" software, it uses the microphone jack(pink) on my PC soundcard. I did have the REC jack on the back of my scanner feeding into my input jack(blue) on my PC soundcard so I could hear the scanner while simultaneously listening to other things on the PC from the soundcard speaker/earphone jack. So my question is, how can I feed my scanner into my soundcard input jack while still recording it? I was thinking I could hook the scanners earphone jack to the soundcard input jack but I am unsure if it would work or if it would even possibly damage it?
Thanks for any input.
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