Just got it today, loaded it with my favorites. I'm in Eastern CT. listening to a few trunked systems, Waterford, CSP Troop E as well as a few conventional channels in the area. I have my Pro 106 going and I'm missing most of the traffic on the 536. Not sure if it's my programming or if it's just slow. Any help would be appreciated.
Very disappointed in the BCD536
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Maybe you could post your .hpe file and we can take a look at it and see if anything looks out of place.
Tried it at many different levels.
What do you mean by missing traffic? Whats your hold time set too? And did you update the firmware. If your missing the calls set your hold times to zero.
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Where do I find that file?
Saw your earlier post wise, software updated and hold times to zero
In Sentinel go to TOOLS and OPTIONS. It will show you were your file is at.
I cant copy them to RR for some reason?
You have to add it to a zip file. Then you can load it. All you have to do is export your file then zip it up.
Not sure how to do that
Anyone willing to let me email it to them?
Kevin Check your PM
One thing I did was avoided sites that aren't needed (I have location control turned off) - taking each system down to one site actually scanned. Out of the box, setting up w/ Sentinel it was extremely disappointing, but this did improve it drastically.
That being said, it is still slower than my old scanner. I am now looking seriously at setting up my favorites lists differently to see if I can gain some advantage that way and/or using location control to avoid scanning too much... I am operating under the assumption that it is a setup issue rather than a quality issue with the scanner. I am comparing it to another Uniden (BCD785D) scanning essentially the same channels in 5 banks vs the 536 using 6 FL
That being said, it is still slower than my old scanner. I am now looking seriously at setting up my favorites lists differently to see if I can gain some advantage that way and/or using location control to avoid scanning too much... I am operating under the assumption that it is a setup issue rather than a quality issue with the scanner. I am comparing it to another Uniden (BCD785D) scanning essentially the same channels in 5 banks vs the 536 using 6 FL
I'm hoping its a setup issue as well. I did remove sites that were not in the area.
Thank you Kevin, maybe someone will spot a mistake.
I just looked at the zip file and I believe you sent the wrong thing. You need to export your .hpe file.
Edited original post with .hpe files.
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Sorry, .hpe files in your in box
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