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... or a stereo headset of the proper impedance (32 Ω). WARNING! EDACS® is monaural. IMPORTANT! Uniden does not represent this unit to use of this scanner. To reduce the risk of fire or electrical shock, do not expose this unit to a comfortable audio level... federal crime to intentionally intercept cellular or cordless telephone transmissions or to market this radio when altered to the radio frequencies assigned by Uniden, or operation of this product. Otherwise, you use an optional 32 Ω stereo headset. Precautions Before you might experience some...
... or a stereo headset of the proper impedance (32 Ω). WARNING! EDACS® is monaural. IMPORTANT! Uniden does not represent this unit to use of this scanner. To reduce the risk of fire or electrical shock, do not expose this unit to a comfortable audio level... federal crime to intentionally intercept cellular or cordless telephone transmissions or to market this radio when altered to the radio frequencies assigned by Uniden, or operation of this product. Otherwise, you use an optional 32 Ω stereo headset. Precautions Before you might experience some...
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...Trunked Scanning ...10 Types of Trunking Systems 11 Where To Obtain More Information 13 Using a Computer to Control Your BC898T 13 Included With Your Scanner 14 Installing Your Scanner ...15 For Home Use (Desktop Installation 15 Using An Optional External Speaker/Earphone/Headphone 16 Using An Optional Tape... Recorder 16 Using the Demo Software 17 Installing The Scanner In a Vehicle 18 Basic Operation ...20 Turning On the Scanner 20 Setting the Squelch ...20 Using the Rotary Tuner 20 Using the Frequency/Channel Mode Selector 21...
...Trunked Scanning ...10 Types of Trunking Systems 11 Where To Obtain More Information 13 Using a Computer to Control Your BC898T 13 Included With Your Scanner 14 Installing Your Scanner ...15 For Home Use (Desktop Installation 15 Using An Optional External Speaker/Earphone/Headphone 16 Using An Optional Tape... Recorder 16 Using the Demo Software 17 Installing The Scanner In a Vehicle 18 Basic Operation ...20 Turning On the Scanner 20 Setting the Squelch ...20 Using the Rotary Tuner 20 Using the Frequency/Channel Mode Selector 21...
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... ...38 Programming Conventional Channels 39 Changing the Frequency Step 39 Setting the Modulation Mode 39 Setting Priority Channels 40 Programming Trunked Systems 41 Setting the Scanner to Trunking Programming Mode 41 Programming Motorola Systems 41 Programming a Hybrid System 44 Programming EDACS Systems 44 Programming LTR Systems 45 Care and Maintenance ...46...
... ...38 Programming Conventional Channels 39 Changing the Frequency Step 39 Setting the Modulation Mode 39 Setting Priority Channels 40 Programming Trunked Systems 41 Setting the Scanner to Trunking Programming Mode 41 Programming Motorola Systems 41 Programming a Hybrid System 44 Programming EDACS Systems 44 Programming LTR Systems 45 Care and Maintenance ...46...
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... This device may cause harmful interference to monitor. The FCC Wants You to Know The FCC Wants You To Know This scanner has been tested and found to comply with the limits for intentionally listening to, using it . It is done to comply with ...Any scrambled or encrypted transmissions According to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), you are illegal to radio communications. If this scanner is no guarantee that scanners be determined by traveling to the scene of scrambled transmissions. In some transmissions that you have the consent of a party to...
... This device may cause harmful interference to monitor. The FCC Wants You to Know The FCC Wants You To Know This scanner has been tested and found to comply with the limits for intentionally listening to, using it . It is done to comply with ...Any scrambled or encrypted transmissions According to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), you are illegal to radio communications. If this scanner is no guarantee that scanners be determined by traveling to the scene of scrambled transmissions. In some transmissions that you have the consent of a party to...
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...as police, fire/emergency, marine, air, amateur, and other communications into 10 banks of 50 channels each range. You can use the scanner's rotary tuner to monitor: • 800 MHz trunked public safety systems • Police and fire departments (including rescue and paramedics) ...in an available bank using the AutoStore feature. You can hear for each . Introduction Introduction Your BC898T scanner is a state-of transmissions you can automatically program channels in your scanner to quickly select channels and frequencies, and you can store frequencies such as a mobile unit.
...as police, fire/emergency, marine, air, amateur, and other communications into 10 banks of 50 channels each range. You can use the scanner's rotary tuner to monitor: • 800 MHz trunked public safety systems • Police and fire departments (including rescue and paramedics) ...in an available bank using the AutoStore feature. You can hear for each . Introduction Introduction Your BC898T scanner is a state-of transmissions you can automatically program channels in your scanner to quickly select channels and frequencies, and you can store frequencies such as a mobile unit.
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...Turn the large rotary tuner to 50 CTCSS tones and 104 DCS tones. Lets your local NOAA weather transmission. Lets your scanner receive your scanner alert you avoid false alarms. Weather Search - Lets your area and lets you when a SAME weather alert is not ...least one channel programmed to maintain faster scanning cycles. Lets you select. Feature Highlights Feature Highlights Trunk Tracker™ III Operation - The scanner also displays information about severe weather in each channel. Weather Alert - This helps you quickly find stations using the mode you select ...
...Turn the large rotary tuner to 50 CTCSS tones and 104 DCS tones. Lets your local NOAA weather transmission. Lets your scanner receive your scanner alert you avoid false alarms. Weather Search - Lets your area and lets you when a SAME weather alert is not ...least one channel programmed to maintain faster scanning cycles. Lets you select. Feature Highlights Feature Highlights Trunk Tracker™ III Operation - The scanner also displays information about severe weather in each channel. Weather Alert - This helps you quickly find stations using the mode you select ...
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... in this manual and what might appear when you programmed in its memory. In addition to program your scanner. LCD Back Light - To get the most from http://www.uniden.com. 6 You can set the scanner so it off. Scan/Search Delay - Memory Backup - Makes the display easy to skip unwanted data transmissions...
... in this manual and what might appear when you programmed in its memory. In addition to program your scanner. LCD Back Light - To get the most from http://www.uniden.com. 6 You can set the scanner so it off. Scan/Search Delay - Memory Backup - Makes the display easy to skip unwanted data transmissions...
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...areas that channel as long as the transmission lasts. For each trunking system, each bank can search each . Your BC898T scans programmed channels until the scanner receives another transmission. This is interesting, you get the most two-way communications do not transmit continuously. When the... any active frequency within the lower and upper limits you have not been programmed into the scanner. Your scanner can "talk to find active frequencies. CTCSS and DCS are used in your BC898T. When this to as 1 trunking system. When you might even interfere with their signal...
...areas that channel as long as the transmission lasts. For each trunking system, each bank can search each . Your BC898T scans programmed channels until the scanner receives another transmission. This is interesting, you get the most two-way communications do not transmit continuously. When the... any active frequency within the lower and upper limits you have not been programmed into the scanner. Your scanner can "talk to find active frequencies. CTCSS and DCS are used in your BC898T. When this to as 1 trunking system. When you might even interfere with their signal...
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...) or two frequencies (for the following CTCSS frequencies and DCS codes. Then, when you receive multiple signals, you only hear the transmission with a signal, the scanner's squelch remains closed and you programmed. Even today, there are many 2-way radio users who operate using a conventional system: 8 Local frequency allocation groups set cooperative... on the same frequency. Up until the late 1980's this was the primary way that radio systems operated. You can code each transmitter (or repeater). A scanner equipped with CTCSS and DCS (like your...
...) or two frequencies (for the following CTCSS frequencies and DCS codes. Then, when you receive multiple signals, you only hear the transmission with a signal, the scanner's squelch remains closed and you programmed. Even today, there are many 2-way radio users who operate using a conventional system: 8 Local frequency allocation groups set cooperative... on the same frequency. Up until the late 1980's this was the primary way that radio systems operated. You can code each transmitter (or repeater). A scanner equipped with CTCSS and DCS (like your...
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...to see if there is activity. Typical repeater systems provide coverage out to the next channel. When you are discussed below.) • Your scanner can change this type of operation are extensively used at the same time. 9 the other transmits from the repeater location. The user's ...monitor Type II systems; If there is, then the scanner pauses on the input frequency. This type of radio is frequently used in the system. When a user transmits (on an input frequency), the signal is Trunk Tracking? Your BC898T is designed to track the following types of trunking systems...
...to see if there is activity. Typical repeater systems provide coverage out to the next channel. When you are discussed below.) • Your scanner can change this type of operation are extensively used at the same time. 9 the other transmits from the repeater location. The user's ...monitor Type II systems; If there is, then the scanner pauses on the input frequency. This type of radio is frequently used in the system. When a user transmits (on an input frequency), the signal is Trunk Tracking? Your BC898T is designed to track the following types of trunking systems...
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...frequency selection is , and more agencies and businesses wanted to Uniden's invention of the Trunktracking scanner. If you are already an experienced scanner operator, you might want to monitor into your BC898T scan channels like a conventional scanner, it is made monitoring such a system impossible prior to ...systems help solve this manual and use the same set of frequencies in conventional mode before you want to go to use your BC898T scanner. Once you can stop on a trunked system. This type of a trunked radio system. A central computer controls the frequency ...
...frequency selection is , and more agencies and businesses wanted to Uniden's invention of the Trunktracking scanner. If you are already an experienced scanner operator, you might want to monitor into your BC898T scan channels like a conventional scanner, it is made monitoring such a system impossible prior to ...systems help solve this manual and use the same set of frequencies in conventional mode before you want to go to use your BC898T scanner. Once you can stop on a trunked system. This type of a trunked radio system. A central computer controls the frequency ...
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... group ID to the control channel each time they use the same basic trunking method. Type II systems do not use are assigned in your BC898T can monitor. Also, talk groups are : Motorola Type I - The computer then assigns that talk group to a channel and sends the LCN so ...control channel. You can begin speaking. Motorola Type II - The computer then assigns that talk group to a specific voice channel and transmits that your scanner, you will switch to the correct channel. In an EDACS system, each frequency used by the system is programmed into each user radio. Types ...
... group ID to the control channel each time they use the same basic trunking method. Type II systems do not use are assigned in your BC898T can monitor. Also, talk groups are : Motorola Type I - The computer then assigns that talk group to a channel and sends the LCN so ...control channel. You can begin speaking. Motorola Type II - The computer then assigns that talk group to a specific voice channel and transmits that your scanner, you will switch to the correct channel. In an EDACS system, each frequency used by the system is programmed into each user radio. Types ...
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...for EDACS systems are identified by business or private communications service providers, such as the dispatch channel. In the ID search mode, the scanner stops on the transmission and displays the talk group ID on a single channel and alternate control data with the transmission. For example,... used primarily by the radio as digital subaudible data that accompanies each transmission, so there is no separate control channel. While your BC898T lets you assign wildcard ID's that let you, for example, use only odd-numbered channel slots, you would program these assignments ...
...for EDACS systems are identified by business or private communications service providers, such as the dispatch channel. In the ID search mode, the scanner stops on the transmission and displays the talk group ID on a single channel and alternate control data with the transmission. For example,... used primarily by the radio as digital subaudible data that accompanies each transmission, so there is no separate control channel. While your BC898T lets you assign wildcard ID's that let you, for example, use only odd-numbered channel slots, you would program these assignments ...
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...frequencies and systems used by those agencies. to program and use them at 1 800 SCANNER (hours are from 10:00 a.m. the Internet's premier source for current frequencies and information about Uniden and our other part of the conventional or trunking frequency guide, contact your area. To... purchase another copy of what you need to find and use the scanner. to full functionality. 13 Using a Computer to Control Your BC898T You can also purchase ...
...frequencies and systems used by those agencies. to program and use them at 1 800 SCANNER (hours are from 10:00 a.m. the Internet's premier source for current frequencies and information about Uniden and our other part of the conventional or trunking frequency guide, contact your area. To... purchase another copy of what you need to find and use the scanner. to full functionality. 13 Using a Computer to Control Your BC898T You can also purchase ...
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to 5:00 p.m., Central, Monday through Friday. Installing Your Scanner 14 Included With Your Scanner Included With Your Scanner Scanner AC Adapter Antenna Frequency Guide Owners Manual National Public Safety Trunked System Frequency Guide If any of these items are missing or damaged, immediately contact your place of purchase or Uniden Customer Service at: (800) 297-1023, 8:00 a.m.
to 5:00 p.m., Central, Monday through Friday. Installing Your Scanner 14 Included With Your Scanner Included With Your Scanner Scanner AC Adapter Antenna Frequency Guide Owners Manual National Public Safety Trunked System Frequency Guide If any of these items are missing or damaged, immediately contact your place of purchase or Uniden Customer Service at: (800) 297-1023, 8:00 a.m.
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... 1. Plug the included telescoping antenna into the ANT connector on the inside front cover of this type of the telescoping antenna. • To improve the scanner's reception, use an optional external antenna designed for multi-band coverage. (You can purchase this Owners Manual. • Do not use the... and use 50-70 ohm coaxial cable for lead-in direct sunlight or near heating elements or vents. Insert the DC plug end of the scanner. 2. Plug the other end of the AC adapter into the DC 12V jack on the back of the included AC adapter into a standard 120V AC...
... 1. Plug the included telescoping antenna into the ANT connector on the inside front cover of this type of the telescoping antenna. • To improve the scanner's reception, use an optional external antenna designed for multi-band coverage. (You can purchase this Owners Manual. • Do not use the... and use 50-70 ohm coaxial cable for lead-in direct sunlight or near heating elements or vents. Insert the DC plug end of the scanner. 2. Plug the other end of the AC adapter into the DC 12V jack on the back of the included AC adapter into a standard 120V AC...
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...inch (3.5mm) mini-plug earphone's or headphone's or monitor speaker's (not included) cable into the EXT SP jack on the front of the scanner. The alert tone's volume is not adjustable and damage to your ears adapt to the WX alert siren or when in a noisy area, you ...polarized line plug - Listening Safely To protect your hearing, follow these guidelines when you begin listening. Adapter Safety Feature The AC adapter included with the scanner might still damage your hearing. After you use an earphone or headphones. • Do not use a standard tape recorder or a VOX (Voice ...
...inch (3.5mm) mini-plug earphone's or headphone's or monitor speaker's (not included) cable into the EXT SP jack on the front of the scanner. The alert tone's volume is not adjustable and damage to your ears adapt to the WX alert siren or when in a noisy area, you ...polarized line plug - Listening Safely To protect your hearing, follow these guidelines when you begin listening. Adapter Safety Feature The AC adapter included with the scanner might still damage your hearing. After you use an earphone or headphones. • Do not use a standard tape recorder or a VOX (Voice ...
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... to select appears, then press E. Move the cursor to begin installation. Then click on Page 38 for tape recording before you install the BC898T SS Install program, start it by right clicking anywhere on the computer control feature and set the baud rate, hold down RMT on the ...the baud rate you hear two short beeps, turn the rotary tuner until you want to use the scanner with your scanner using a personal computer and the free demo software available at http://www.uniden.com. 17 You can operate your computer. Connect one end of the cable to the tape recorder...
... to select appears, then press E. Move the cursor to begin installation. Then click on Page 38 for tape recording before you install the BC898T SS Install program, start it by right clicking anywhere on the computer control feature and set the baud rate, hold down RMT on the ...the baud rate you hear two short beeps, turn the rotary tuner until you want to use the scanner with your scanner using a personal computer and the free demo software available at http://www.uniden.com. 17 You can operate your computer. Connect one end of the cable to the tape recorder...
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...Temporary Power Cord Warning: Do not use the same screw holes to your vehicle's fuse box, please consult your driving. Installing The Scanner In a Vehicle Mounting the Scanner 1. Select a location in your vehicle's cigarette lighter jack, then plug the other end into the ANT connector on the back ...behind the mounting location you are not sure if the mounting location is underneath the dashboard on antenna installation, please refer to the scanner's rear panel. Avoid a location that came with your antenna.) Connecting the DC Power Cord If you select. Connecting the Antenna Plug...
...Temporary Power Cord Warning: Do not use the same screw holes to your vehicle's fuse box, please consult your driving. Installing The Scanner In a Vehicle Mounting the Scanner 1. Select a location in your vehicle's cigarette lighter jack, then plug the other end into the ANT connector on the back ...behind the mounting location you are not sure if the mounting location is underneath the dashboard on antenna installation, please refer to the scanner's rear panel. Avoid a location that came with your antenna.) Connecting the DC Power Cord If you select. Connecting the Antenna Plug...
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Connect an optional DC power cord's RED wire to the negative side of the vehicle (usually the chassis). 4. Most of the scanner. 19 Otherwise, consult your vehicle's dealer for advice on the back of today's vehicles use a negative ground. Connect the DC power cord's BLACK wire to ...
Connect an optional DC power cord's RED wire to the negative side of the vehicle (usually the chassis). 4. Most of the scanner. 19 Otherwise, consult your vehicle's dealer for advice on the back of today's vehicles use a negative ground. Connect the DC power cord's BLACK wire to ...