Va State Police STARS

[DaviidL]

Maybe someone could help me what a matter I have a Uniden BC796D scanner and I want to put the new stars channels in it. Two questions which frist can I put each control channel in one bank or does it have to different banks? Second is how do you program the star channels into the banks? And I will be using pro96 com with the scanner. Any help anybody could given would great. Thank you......

 

[W4UVV]

Won't work

Maybe someone could help me what a matter I have a Uniden BC796D scanner and I want to put the new stars channels in it. Two questions which frist can I put each control channel in one bank or does it have to different banks? Second is how do you program the star channels into the banks? And I will be using pro96 com with the scanner. Any help anybody could given would great. Thank you......

The 796D cannot properly process STARS multi-data stream packet trs signals. Forget programing the primary control channel(s). I have a 796D I use mobile and I programed STARS in one bank conventionally with ONLY the voice repeaters for the STARS sites I can receive mobile from my location which are the Richmond and Petersburg sites. Sometimes that configuration works ok and at other times it does not due to one or more trs voice repeaters "hanging" and not dropping although there are no voice comms on that repeater. Then I have to lock it out and later unlock it. It's better than nothing. There will not be any Uniden upgrades to the 796D. That's about as good as it gets for STARS reception with a 796D.

 

[fmon]

Not sure if the 296/796 will even work with CC only in VH/UHF systems.

The hang up using voice repeaters is likely multipacket sent on one of the alt CC's. Data instead of voice and it happens with nearly every transmission on the primary talkgroups (1/3 or 49/51). This same issue has tormented the Pro-96 and 2096 and could be earlier firmware on 369/996.

 

[DaviidL]

stars

I don't know what I was thinking about when I was talking about the cc and everything, guess I have done so much with the 800mhz that it just came out that way. So what scanner would I need to do stars withand everything. Anybody feedback would be helpful to this situation and thank you

 

[RagnarD]

GRE PSR 5/600's or the Uniden BCD-3/996T or the new Uniden BCD-396Xt should all work fine.

RagnarD

 

[W4UVV]

The result is the same

Not sure if the 296/796 will even work with CC only in VH/UHF systems.

The hang up using voice repeaters is likely multipacket sent on one of the alt CC's. Data instead of voice and it happens with nearly every transmission on the primary talkgroups (1/3 or 49/51). This same issue has tormented the Pro-96 and 2096 and could be earlier firmware on 369/996.

Whatever the cause the result is the same.

 

[Stick0413]

GRE PSR 5/600's or the Uniden BCD-3/996T or the new Uniden BCD-396Xt should all work fine.

RagnarD

Add to that the Radio Shack Pro-106/197. They are the GRE's twins but are available at RS.

 

[trainman111]

The PRO-96/PRO-2096 will also work.

 

[Stick0413]

The PRO-96/PRO-2096 will also work.

They will work but not as well as the others mentioned.

 

[cpetraglia]

Do any of the PC based decoders work for Stars? I am in N.VA awaiting a decent CC.

CP

 

[Webodisk]

Pro96com works SUPER with a Pro 96 or 2096
you can get it here
PSREdit - Configuration Editors for the new GRE line of scanners

 

[tuttleje]

Using Pro96com and a RS Pro 106 on STARS, you can pick up the radio ID numbers along with everything else. With my RS Pro 96 and Pro96com, the radio ID numbers would not always display.