Hello, I am new to trunking however have been a conventional scanner hobbyist for years. I just purchased a new Uniden BC796D and have been dabbling with the Connecticut State police system. I believe it is a Motorola II, APCO-25 system. There are approximately 20 frequencies ranging from 851.3625 to 868.7500 and several talkgroups. I have managed to enter all my frequencies into one bank, and manually entered in the talkgroups. I can hear transmissions but am wondering the how the control channels work. It seems when a transmission is coming over it keeps jumping over to the control channel, which makes the transmission skip. It is not set on priority. Also, I have it programmed for Control Channel only; I noticed that even when just scanning the unit will stop on the control channel and hesitate before continuing to scan. I am having confusion on how to properly configure this. I took the time to alpha tag all my talkgroups and Banktags and my banktag doesn't even show up when there is a transmission, only the talkgroup. What is the proper way to program without the use of control channel only? Can I even do this? Please HELP. The manual isn't much help...
One last question, if I get the Pro250 software will it allow me to enter alpha tags by using my computer keyboard? It is a real pain to use the turn knob to scroll the alphabet, and the supllied Uniden software does not allow for keyboard input.
One last question, if I get the Pro250 software will it allow me to enter alpha tags by using my computer keyboard? It is a real pain to use the turn knob to scroll the alphabet, and the supllied Uniden software does not allow for keyboard input.
