Uniden & BC-SGPS

[fenderblue]

I have use the puck in my vehicle all the time on my x36 units. Question is if I use one of my 396xt's in my vehicle, I guess it has a port, what good would it do?

 

[hiegtx]

I have use the puck in my vehicle all the time on my x36 units. Question is if I use one of my 396xt's in my vehicle, I guess it has a port, what good would it do?

The question here is whether or not you included location details when creating a programming file for your 396XT. If you did include those details, then using the GPS would allow you to monitor only those systems within range of the location that the puck is proving to the 396XT. If you did not enter location/range details for the systems in your 396XT, then you'd get the 'nothing to scan' message.

 

[ofd8001]

And, unlike the x36 scanners, you can also program Points of Interest, Dangerous Intersections, see your direction and other interesting things with a GPS device on the 396XT scanner. Of course watching the scanner and not the road might be a bad thing.

 

[tvengr]

And, unlike the x36 scanners, you can also program Points of Interest, Dangerous Intersections, see your direction and other interesting things with a GPS device on the 396XT scanner. Of course watching the scanner and not the road might be a bad thing.

I had 2-996XT's in my vehicle installed in the dash where I removed the AM/FM radio. The clock was included in the radio. I left one scanner set to the GPS display to use the clock off of the satellite. It also indicated my direction and speed. I had the scanner setup to sound alarms in the areas where police often worked radar as a reminder to check my speed. I had 2 Garmin GPS receivers mounted inside the dash under the plastic cover immediately below the windshield. The receiver which comes with the BC-SGPS kit uses a baud rate of 9600bps. You will need to change that in your scanner. The default is 4800bps.

 

[n1chu]

I had 2-996XT's in my vehicle installed in the dash where I removed the AM/FM radio. The clock was included in the radio. I left one scanner set to the GPS display to use the clock off of the satellite. It also indicated my direction and speed. I had the scanner setup to sound alarms in the areas where police often worked radar as a reminder to check my speed. I had 2 Garmin GPS receivers mounted inside the dash under the plastic cover immediately below the windshield. The receiver which comes with the BC-SGPS kit uses a baud rate of 9600bps. You will need to change that in your scanner. The default is 4800bps.

Would love to see pics of that installation…

 

[tvengr]

Would love to see pics of that installation…

Unfortunately, I dont have any. The 2 scanners were a perfect fit for the hole where the radio was removed. It looked like they were original equipment. There were also 2 Radio Shack amplified speakers mounted inside the dash. I had an Austin Condor 12" tri-band rubber ducky antenna on a BNC connector mounted on a metal bracket attached to the frame of the vehicle. The BNC connector came up through a hole drilled through the plastic liner just inside the left rear side tinted window. The antenna was not visible from the outside. The antenna fed a Stridsberg MCA204M 4-output multi-coupler also mounted inside the dash. I also had Uniden and Radio Shack power cables and an antenna cable inside the center console for a third scanner which I often used.