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...Tracker™, Trunk Tracking™, and Close Call™ are registered trademarks of Uniden America Corporation. Power Related Issues Important: To prevent memory from being corrupted, ... occur, simply turn off then back on , it can lose some system settings such as display color and backlight. Uniden® and Bearcat® are proprietary trademarks of their respective holders. Notes: • If when you turn the ... a registered trademark of M/A-COM Private Radio Systems Inc. EDACS® is accessed for programming or auto store. Should this manual are the property of...
...Tracker™, Trunk Tracking™, and Close Call™ are registered trademarks of Uniden America Corporation. Power Related Issues Important: To prevent memory from being corrupted, ... occur, simply turn off then back on , it can lose some system settings such as display color and backlight. Uniden® and Bearcat® are proprietary trademarks of their respective holders. Notes: • If when you turn the ... a registered trademark of M/A-COM Private Radio Systems Inc. EDACS® is accessed for programming or auto store. Should this manual are the property of...
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...'s (TGID 49 Trunking Activity Indicators ...50 Toggling the Display Mode ...51 Optimizing P25 Performance ...52 Conventional System ...52 Trunked System ...52 Using the Menu ...54 Programming General Settings ...55 Setting and Using the Backlight ...55 Setting the Dimmer ...55 Setting the Backlight Color ...56 Adjusting the Key Beep ...56 Setting the...
...'s (TGID 49 Trunking Activity Indicators ...50 Toggling the Display Mode ...51 Optimizing P25 Performance ...52 Conventional System ...52 Trunked System ...52 Using the Menu ...54 Programming General Settings ...55 Setting and Using the Backlight ...55 Setting the Dimmer ...55 Setting the Backlight Color ...56 Adjusting the Key Beep ...56 Setting the...
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...63 Site Settings ...65 Channel Settings ...66 Programming Conventional Systems 66 Programming Trunked Radio Systems 67 Programming System Settings ...67 Editing the System Name ...67 Specifying the Correct System Type 68 Programming System Options ...68 Programming Sites ...76 Programming Channel Groups ...83 Setting Up a Channel...Name 83 Setting the Group Quick Key ...84 Editing Channels ...84 Locking Out Channel Groups ...84 Deleting Channel Groups ...85 Programming Channels ...85 Creating a Channel ...85 Editing the Channel Name (Alpha Tag 85 Editing Frequencies ...86 Editing the Talk ...
...63 Site Settings ...65 Channel Settings ...66 Programming Conventional Systems 66 Programming Trunked Radio Systems 67 Programming System Settings ...67 Editing the System Name ...67 Specifying the Correct System Type 68 Programming System Options ...68 Programming Sites ...76 Programming Channel Groups ...83 Setting Up a Channel...Name 83 Setting the Group Quick Key ...84 Editing Channels ...84 Locking Out Channel Groups ...84 Deleting Channel Groups ...85 Programming Channels ...85 Creating a Channel ...85 Editing the Channel Name (Alpha Tag 85 Editing Frequencies ...86 Editing the Talk ...
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...Adjust P25 Level ...111 Priority Scan ...111 Using Weather Alert (SAME) ...113 Searching For a Weather Broadcast 113 Turning Weather Alert On/Off ...114 Programming a SAME Group ...114 Setting WX Alert Priority ...114 Fire Tone-Out ...115 Setting Tone-Out Standby ...115 Setting Up Tone-Out ...115 Tone...-Out Multi-Channel Monitoring 117 Set Record ...117 Using the BCD996T with a GPS 118 Device Compatibility ...118 Connecting Your Scanner to a GPS Device 118 Initial Scanner/GPS Operation ...118 Location-Based (GPS) ...
...Adjust P25 Level ...111 Priority Scan ...111 Using Weather Alert (SAME) ...113 Searching For a Weather Broadcast 113 Turning Weather Alert On/Off ...114 Programming a SAME Group ...114 Setting WX Alert Priority ...114 Fire Tone-Out ...115 Setting Tone-Out Standby ...115 Setting Up Tone-Out ...115 Tone...-Out Multi-Channel Monitoring 117 Set Record ...117 Using the BCD996T with a GPS 118 Device Compatibility ...118 Connecting Your Scanner to a GPS Device 118 Initial Scanner/GPS Operation ...118 Location-Based (GPS) ...
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GPS Review Location Mode ...125 Care and Maintenance ...127 General Use ...127 Location ...127 Cleaning ...127 Birdies ...127 Troubleshooting ...128 Specifications ...131 Reference ...134 Preset Fleet Maps ...134 User Defined Fleet Maps ...136 Type I Programming Information 136 Size Code Restrictions ...137 Preprogrammed Systems and Lockout Options 138 Preprogrammed Systems with Quick Keys 139 CTCSS Frequencies ...140 DCS Codes ...140 Index ...142 One-Year Limited Warranty ...146 8
GPS Review Location Mode ...125 Care and Maintenance ...127 General Use ...127 Location ...127 Cleaning ...127 Birdies ...127 Troubleshooting ...128 Specifications ...131 Reference ...134 Preset Fleet Maps ...134 User Defined Fleet Maps ...136 Type I Programming Information 136 Size Code Restrictions ...137 Preprogrammed Systems and Lockout Options 138 Preprogrammed Systems with Quick Keys 139 CTCSS Frequencies ...140 DCS Codes ...140 Index ...142 One-Year Limited Warranty ...146 8
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You can automatically program channels in the dynamic memory conventional frequencies such as police, fire/emergency, marine, air, amateur, and other communications. Use your scanner to quickly select channels and frequencies, and you can use Trunked Radio Systems and so much more. Introduction Your BCD996T scanner is a state-of-the-art scanner radio...
You can automatically program channels in the dynamic memory conventional frequencies such as police, fire/emergency, marine, air, amateur, and other communications. Use your scanner to quickly select channels and frequencies, and you can use Trunked Radio Systems and so much more. Introduction Your BCD996T scanner is a state-of-the-art scanner radio...
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using the keypad. Close Call Do-Not-Disturb - Your scanner is preprogrammed with no additional programming. Dynamically Allocated Channel Memory - Frequencies are organized so that you can continue to monitor activity on those systems or groups you are not interrupted. See... frequencies, even after you don't want to scan. 13 Service Searches - Feature Highlights General DIN-E and ISO Vehicle Mountable - This makes it easier to program and use your scanner and determine how much memory you have used and how much you can quickly select systems and groups by using an...
using the keypad. Close Call Do-Not-Disturb - Your scanner is preprogrammed with no additional programming. Dynamically Allocated Channel Memory - Frequencies are organized so that you can continue to monitor activity on those systems or groups you are not interrupted. See... frequencies, even after you don't want to scan. 13 Service Searches - Feature Highlights General DIN-E and ISO Vehicle Mountable - This makes it easier to program and use your scanner and determine how much memory you have used and how much you can quickly select systems and groups by using an...
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..., 7.5, 8.33, 10, 12.5,15, 20, 25, 50 or 100 kHz) for your vehicle's dimmer circuit to also dim the scanner's display with signal control, you programmed in dim light using up to enable the Function mode. Lets you don't have to remember to see in its memory. You can scan both...
..., 7.5, 8.33, 10, 12.5,15, 20, 25, 50 or 100 kHz) for your vehicle's dimmer circuit to also dim the scanner's display with signal control, you programmed in dim light using up to enable the Function mode. Lets you don't have to remember to see in its memory. You can scan both...
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... Lets your scanner receive your scanner sound an alert when a SAME weather alert signal is transmitted on a NOAA weather channel. Lets you program up to program voice channel frequencies into the scanner. The scanner alerts you provide. Lets your local NOAA weather transmission. This helps you quickly find out ...you can set to the scanner it scans using only control channel data. If you connect a GPS unit to scan a Motorola system, you program into memory in your scanner alert you when a weather alert is set it so it can search any of Interest that you to monitor. ...
... Lets your scanner receive your scanner sound an alert when a SAME weather alert signal is transmitted on a NOAA weather channel. Lets you program up to program voice channel frequencies into the scanner. The scanner alerts you provide. Lets your local NOAA weather transmission. This helps you quickly find out ...you can set to the scanner it scans using only control channel data. If you connect a GPS unit to scan a Motorola system, you program into memory in your scanner alert you when a weather alert is set it so it can search any of Interest that you to monitor. ...
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...Cloning PC Control - CTCSS/DCS Search - Priority Priority Scan - Free PC control and programming software will be available at http://www.uniden.com. Clone Mode - The scanner can clone all programmed data, including the contents of activity on other parameters from the currently-tuned frequency if ...you search from one BCD996T scanner to 50 CTCSS tones and 104 DCS codes. Auto Store ...
...Cloning PC Control - CTCSS/DCS Search - Priority Priority Scan - Free PC control and programming software will be available at http://www.uniden.com. Clone Mode - The scanner can clone all programmed data, including the contents of activity on other parameters from the currently-tuned frequency if ...you search from one BCD996T scanner to 50 CTCSS tones and 104 DCS codes. Auto Store ...
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... magazine. Since what you see F in this manual and what is a dual purpose control. Located prominently on the right of the BCD996T's front panel, the knob/switch lets you might appear when you are representations of what might notice some differences between what appears on ... to scanning or trunk tracking, start with the following short introduction to scanning and follow-up with the enclosed reprinted article on Programming provided with the basic functions available. Memory Storage Limits Systems 500 Sites 1000 Sites per Systems Groups per System 256 20 Total ...
... magazine. Since what you see F in this manual and what is a dual purpose control. Located prominently on the right of the BCD996T's front panel, the knob/switch lets you might appear when you are representations of what might notice some differences between what appears on ... to scanning or trunk tracking, start with the following short introduction to scanning and follow-up with the enclosed reprinted article on Programming provided with the basic functions available. Memory Storage Limits Systems 500 Sites 1000 Sites per Systems Groups per System 256 20 Total ...
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... press [MENU]. How the Scanner's Controls Are Represented in This Manual To help navigate the scanner's menus, the steps shown in Boldface Courier type (Program System) when you see on the current system until the function operation is cancelled. To accept an entry, press F or press [EYES]. Or, ...the Scroll Control for 3 seconds. The following example shows you how to turn the Scroll Control ( ) until you select Function while scanning, the BCD996T continues to scan, but holds on the LCD in this time, press any button to save space. It also instructs you want appears. To ...
... press [MENU]. How the Scanner's Controls Are Represented in This Manual To help navigate the scanner's menus, the steps shown in Boldface Courier type (Program System) when you see on the current system until the function operation is cancelled. To accept an entry, press F or press [EYES]. Or, ...the Scroll Control for 3 seconds. The following example shows you how to turn the Scroll Control ( ) until you select Function while scanning, the BCD996T continues to scan, but holds on the LCD in this time, press any button to save space. It also instructs you want appears. To ...
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...and what you wish to listen to be sure to start scanning. Once set the volume and the squelch levels. The two programming steps are anxious to program the scanner yourself. Then, if you listen at a comfortable level and let the scanner provide a signal whose strength is ...press [SCAN/SEARCH] to the nearest NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) broadcast. The easiest is sufficient to . We have just unpacked your Uniden BCD996T scanner. Then, press [.No] and the two-digit quick key for the steps to tune to start scanning. If you rotate the [VOL/...
...and what you wish to listen to be sure to start scanning. Once set the volume and the squelch levels. The two programming steps are anxious to program the scanner yourself. Then, if you listen at a comfortable level and let the scanner provide a signal whose strength is ...press [SCAN/SEARCH] to the nearest NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) broadcast. The easiest is sufficient to . We have just unpacked your Uniden BCD996T scanner. Then, press [.No] and the two-digit quick key for the steps to tune to start scanning. If you rotate the [VOL/...
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... blank worksheet on our web page as you . Begin by choosing the Talkgroups of interest to you would any other valuable data. The programming data of a large metropolitan area may consist of trunk tracking for an even more complete listening appreciation. 20 Then, by using the Clone...your area. Once you have established links at our company website. If you register and pay a small fee, you start the programming session. Visit, http://www.uniden.com/scanners to see a list of helpful forms. But first, visit http://www.radioreference.com and locate the system nearest your ...
... blank worksheet on our web page as you . Begin by choosing the Talkgroups of interest to you would any other valuable data. The programming data of a large metropolitan area may consist of trunk tracking for an even more complete listening appreciation. 20 Then, by using the Clone...your area. Once you have established links at our company website. If you register and pay a small fee, you start the programming session. Visit, http://www.uniden.com/scanners to see a list of helpful forms. But first, visit http://www.radioreference.com and locate the system nearest your ...
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... the Scanner's Memory Your scanner's memory is wasted, and you can only program one trunking system per bank in a traditional scanner, if there were (for multiple systems, so that feature. Understanding Scanning and the BCD996T This section provides you select and deselect banks by traditional scanners. You don't..., you assign a quick key (System/Site Quick Key, or SQK) from 0 to use as much remains. The BCD996T lets you assign another quick key to program and use the same quick key for example) 30 frequencies, the remaining channels in the pool to monitor and track all...
... the Scanner's Memory Your scanner's memory is wasted, and you can only program one trunking system per bank in a traditional scanner, if there were (for multiple systems, so that feature. Understanding Scanning and the BCD996T This section provides you select and deselect banks by traditional scanners. You don't..., you assign a quick key (System/Site Quick Key, or SQK) from 0 to use as much remains. The BCD996T lets you assign another quick key to program and use the same quick key for example) 30 frequencies, the remaining channels in the pool to monitor and track all...
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... where there are sub-audible tone signaling systems sometimes referred to search. The BCD996T can search each other. If you think the frequency is different from scanning because you might 22 Your scanner can program it into the scanner's channels. What is CTCSS/DCS? What is received... is interesting, you can be assigned to find active frequencies. The stations might hear multiple communications on the same frequency. Your BCD996T scans programmed channels until the scanner receives another transmission. CTCSS and DCS are usually associated with their signal can have...
... where there are sub-audible tone signaling systems sometimes referred to search. The BCD996T can search each other. If you think the frequency is different from scanning because you might 22 Your scanner can program it into the scanner's channels. What is CTCSS/DCS? What is received... is interesting, you can be assigned to find active frequencies. The stations might hear multiple communications on the same frequency. Your BCD996T scans programmed channels until the scanner receives another transmission. CTCSS and DCS are usually associated with their signal can have...
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... many other to the point where it is frequently used at construction job sites, and with inexpensive consumer radios such as your BCD996T, equipped with CTCSS and DCS, can code each received frequency with a specific sub-audible CTCSS or DCS frequency or code. ...this manual. Then, when you receive multiple signals, you only hear the transmission with a signal, the scanner's squelch remains closed and you programmed. Conventional Scanning Conventional scanning is activity. Up until it is assigned a single frequency (for simplex systems) or two frequencies (for both ...
... many other to the point where it is frequently used at construction job sites, and with inexpensive consumer radios such as your BCD996T, equipped with CTCSS and DCS, can code each received frequency with a specific sub-audible CTCSS or DCS frequency or code. ...this manual. Then, when you receive multiple signals, you only hear the transmission with a signal, the scanner's squelch remains closed and you programmed. Conventional Scanning Conventional scanning is activity. Up until it is assigned a single frequency (for simplex systems) or two frequencies (for both ...
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...all work on the same basic premise: even in conventional mode before you can review the programming worksheets and their associated pages on a single frequency, they wanted. This semi-random frequency...trunking system operates a little differently (see the next few sections), they all on the Uniden website. Understanding scanning fundamentals and terminology will make trunk tracking much easier. Types of ...the advent of smaller, lower-cost radios more and more voice Understanding Scanning and the BCD996T 25 The system consists of one control channel (or as they could each be on...
...all work on the same basic premise: even in conventional mode before you can review the programming worksheets and their associated pages on a single frequency, they wanted. This semi-random frequency...trunking system operates a little differently (see the next few sections), they all on the Uniden website. Understanding scanning fundamentals and terminology will make trunk tracking much easier. Types of ...the advent of smaller, lower-cost radios more and more voice Understanding Scanning and the BCD996T 25 The system consists of one control channel (or as they could each be on...
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...talk groups; these radios are : Motorola Type I system, you must know the system's fleet map to know the system's fleet map. This information is programmed into each frequency used by the control channel. When a user presses Push To Talk (PTT) to transmit, their radio first sends the person's talk group... called SCAT that talk group to start talking. In an EDACS system, each radio, so with this manual. The computer then assigns that your BCD996T can monitor. Then it is assigned an LCN. This all other 26 the radios only send the radio ID and radio channel code to a ...
...talk groups; these radios are : Motorola Type I system, you must know the system's fleet map to know the system's fleet map. This information is programmed into each frequency used by the control channel. When a user presses Push To Talk (PTT) to transmit, their radio first sends the person's talk group... called SCAT that talk group to start talking. In an EDACS system, each radio, so with this manual. The computer then assigns that your BCD996T can monitor. Then it is assigned an LCN. This all other 26 the radios only send the radio ID and radio channel code to a ...
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... times to provide fleet identification, and then 8 more times to identify subfleets. These numbers are somewhat arbitrary and vary from 00 - 15. To program an EDACS system in your BCD996T cannot track ID's in the form AHHUUU, where: A = Area code (0 or 1) H = Home repeater (01 through 20) U = ..., and repair services. EDACS SCAT - (Single Channel Autonomous Trunking) systems operate on the transmission if the LTR Understanding Scanning and the BCD996T 27 In the ID scan mode, the scanner only stops on a single channel and alternate control data with the transmission. While these ...
... times to provide fleet identification, and then 8 more times to identify subfleets. These numbers are somewhat arbitrary and vary from 00 - 15. To program an EDACS system in your BCD996T cannot track ID's in the form AHHUUU, where: A = Area code (0 or 1) H = Home repeater (01 through 20) U = ..., and repair services. EDACS SCAT - (Single Channel Autonomous Trunking) systems operate on the transmission if the LTR Understanding Scanning and the BCD996T 27 In the ID scan mode, the scanner only stops on a single channel and alternate control data with the transmission. While these ...