BCD436HP/BCD536HP: Uniden BCD436HP TGID programming issue

[AnthonyG13]

I have a uniden BCD436HP, and using the zip services does not pull up the frequencies needed, so naturally I decided to program them myself. I made a new favorites list, and entered a conventional frequency, and it worked fine. I then tried to enter a P25 single frequency, and when I tried to scan just that frequency, I get "scan mode nothing to scan" same thing when I do a P25 trunked. I enter the DEC, just like I did the conventional frequency, and it does not enter properly. I simply can not get any P25 channels to enter when programming manually. Please help.

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

Welcome to the RR forums. Are you using Uniden Sentinel to program or are you programming by hand? Regarding the P25 one frequency trunk system; if you've created the system by hand then you'll need to either program in a talkgroup (you claim you did?) or turn on ID Search (MENU > Manage Favorites > select Favorite > Review/Edit System > Select system > Edit Sys Option > ID Search > On) or as you found you'll get the "Nothing to scan" screen. If that fails to resolve the issue, refer to wiki below for additional measures to take

Nothing to Scan - The RadioReference Wiki

wiki.radioreference.com

 

[AnthonyG13]

Welcome to the RR forums. Are you using Uniden Sentinel to program or are you programming by hand? Regarding the P25 one frequency trunk system; if you've created the system by hand then you'll need to either program in a talkgroup (you claim you did?) or turn on ID Search (MENU > Manage Favorites > select Favorite > Review/Edit System > Select system > Edit Sys Option > ID Search > On) or as you found you'll get the "Nothing to scan" screen. If that fails to resolve the issue, refer to wiki below for additional measures to take

Nothing to Scan - The RadioReference Wiki

wiki.radioreference.com

I am programming by hand. I did not create a talk group, just a favorites list where I entered my desired frequencies. I will check to make sure the ID search is on. Thanks for the insight

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

Sure. once you turn on ID search and the talkgroup(s) pop(s) up you can then quickly press the E/yes key to "quick save" the TGID(s)

 

[nessnet]

Are you sure that what you want to listen to is not in the database?
It is always much better to let Sentinel create a favorite.
Let us know what you are trying to listen to.

When manually entering something, you need to program ALL of it's info - not just a frequency.


For example, if you didn't program location information (lat/long/range), the radio thinks what you want to listen to is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean somewhere (0 lat / 0 long) and will totally ignore it.