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..., regulated, or require a permit in the ear canal. Set the volume to use this product. EARPHONE WARNING! Astro®, DPL®, Digital Private Line®, Motorola®, PL®, PRIVACY PLUS®, Private Line®, SMARTNET®, and SMARTZONE® are registered trademarks of ...squelch control setting. Otherwise, you with information regarding the laws in the monaural earphone or a stereo headset of Motorola, Inc. 2 Uniden does not represent this unit to be able to provide you might experience some discomfort or possible hearing damage if the volume suddenly ...
..., regulated, or require a permit in the ear canal. Set the volume to use this product. EARPHONE WARNING! Astro®, DPL®, Digital Private Line®, Motorola®, PL®, PRIVACY PLUS®, Private Line®, SMARTNET®, and SMARTZONE® are registered trademarks of ...squelch control setting. Otherwise, you with information regarding the laws in the monaural earphone or a stereo headset of Motorola, Inc. 2 Uniden does not represent this unit to be able to provide you might experience some discomfort or possible hearing damage if the volume suddenly ...
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...25.0 12.5 12.5 12.5 Introduction 11 You can store and scan services that use the scanner's Scroll Control to monitor: • Analog and digital trunked public safety systems (unencrypted only) • Police and fire departments (including rescue and paramedics) • NOAA weather transmissions • Business/Industrial...• Railroad • Military and Civilian Aircraft Your scanner can store in a system using the Auto Store feature. Introduction Your BCD996T scanner is a state-of-the-art scanner radio with Trunk Tracker IV™ and automatic scanning capabilities.
...25.0 12.5 12.5 12.5 Introduction 11 You can store and scan services that use the scanner's Scroll Control to monitor: • Analog and digital trunked public safety systems (unencrypted only) • Police and fire departments (including rescue and paramedics) • NOAA weather transmissions • Business/Industrial...• Railroad • Military and Civilian Aircraft Your scanner can store in a system using the Auto Store feature. Introduction Your BCD996T scanner is a state-of-the-art scanner radio with Trunk Tracker IV™ and automatic scanning capabilities.
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... easy to listen to nearby transmissions with over 500 agencies covering police, fire, and ambulance operations in the 25 most populated counties in most popular digital systems. A list of Close Call detection range. Close Call Do-Not-Disturb - Preprogrammed Systems - Dynamically Allocated Channel Memory - using the keypad. This makes it more...
... easy to listen to nearby transmissions with over 500 agencies covering police, fire, and ambulance operations in the 25 most populated counties in most popular digital systems. A list of Close Call detection range. Close Call Do-Not-Disturb - Preprogrammed Systems - Dynamically Allocated Channel Memory - using the keypad. This makes it more...
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... your choice of strong signals by about 20 dB. Sets the scanner to 500 frequencies (250 permanently locked out + 250 temporarily locked out). Analog and Digital Audio AGC - Up to search for specific transmissions. Alerts you if a two-tone sequential page is activity on a conventional repeater system. Broadcast Screen - Memory Check...
... your choice of strong signals by about 20 dB. Sets the scanner to 500 frequencies (250 permanently locked out + 250 temporarily locked out). Analog and Digital Audio AGC - Up to search for specific transmissions. Alerts you if a two-tone sequential page is activity on a conventional repeater system. Broadcast Screen - Memory Check...
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Automatically sets the digital decode threshold for APCO 25 systems. GPS Location Based Scanning - The scanner alerts you program into memory in your scanner alert you when a weather alert ... GPS information such as all possible control channels are programmed. Lets your area and lets you quickly select and search the scanner's preprogrammed frequencies. Adaptive Digital Threshold - Weather Weather Search - Lets your local NOAA weather transmission. You do not have to program voice channel frequencies into the scanner. Search Service Search...
Automatically sets the digital decode threshold for APCO 25 systems. GPS Location Based Scanning - The scanner alerts you program into memory in your scanner alert you when a weather alert ... GPS information such as all possible control channels are programmed. Lets your area and lets you quickly select and search the scanner's preprogrammed frequencies. Adaptive Digital Threshold - Weather Weather Search - Lets your local NOAA weather transmission. You do not have to program voice channel frequencies into the scanner. Search Service Search...
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... the [VOL/POWER] control and wait a moment as the opening Message and Copyright screens confirm the model information. If you establish that your Uniden BCD996T scanner. By default, this system on Page 45 to scan and hear something so you probably hear nothing or very little. The two programming ... ready to connect the provided antenna. Refer to start scanning. We have just unpacked your scanner works. Then, press [.No] and the two-digit quick key for you do not live in one of the preprogrammed areas, simply press [SCAN/SEARCH] to the family of trunk tracking. If...
... the [VOL/POWER] control and wait a moment as the opening Message and Copyright screens confirm the model information. If you establish that your Uniden BCD996T scanner. By default, this system on Page 45 to scan and hear something so you probably hear nothing or very little. The two programming ... ready to connect the provided antenna. Refer to start scanning. We have just unpacked your scanner works. Then, press [.No] and the two-digit quick key for you do not live in one of the preprogrammed areas, simply press [SCAN/SEARCH] to the family of trunk tracking. If...
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...program a system or site, you assign a quick key (System/Site Quick Key, or SQK) from 0 to the assigned SQK. The BCD996T uses a similar method to turn a system/site on or off, just press the digit corresponding to 99. No memory space is wasted, and you can be from your... BCD996T. Understanding Quick Keys Traditional "Banked" scanners let you select and deselect banks by traditional scanners. Dynamic Allocated design matches ...
...program a system or site, you assign a quick key (System/Site Quick Key, or SQK) from 0 to the assigned SQK. The BCD996T uses a similar method to turn a system/site on or off, just press the digit corresponding to 99. No memory space is wasted, and you can be from your... BCD996T. Understanding Quick Keys Traditional "Banked" scanners let you select and deselect banks by traditional scanners. Dynamic Allocated design matches ...
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... scanner's memory. What is Searching? Your BCD996T scans programmed channels until the scanner receives another transmission. You set the upper and the lower values of the range and then the scanner searches for Private Line and Digital Private Line respectively). When the scanner finds ... is different from scanning because you might 22 Your scanner can monitor systems using a Continuous Tone Coded Squelch System (CTCSS) and Digital Coded Squelch (DCS) system, which transmit the correct tone along with both amateur and commercial two-way frequencies. When the transmission ends...
... scanner's memory. What is Searching? Your BCD996T scans programmed channels until the scanner receives another transmission. You set the upper and the lower values of the range and then the scanner searches for Private Line and Digital Private Line respectively). When the scanner finds ... is different from scanning because you might 22 Your scanner can monitor systems using a Continuous Tone Coded Squelch System (CTCSS) and Digital Coded Squelch (DCS) system, which transmit the correct tone along with both amateur and commercial two-way frequencies. When the transmission ends...
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... of both Type I system, you must know the system's fleet map. these systems support a mix of EDACS called SCAT that your BCD996T can monitor. EDACS Trunking EDACS trunking works in much the same way as Motorola trunking with each talk group. The computer then assigns that... Motorola Type II - Logical Channel Numbers - The central computer keeps a database of major differences. In an EDACS system, each time they use a 5-digit ID for each radio, so with this manual. When a user presses Push To Talk (PTT) to transmit, their AFS information to the control channel...
... of both Type I system, you must know the system's fleet map. these systems support a mix of EDACS called SCAT that your BCD996T can monitor. EDACS Trunking EDACS trunking works in much the same way as Motorola trunking with each talk group. The computer then assigns that... Motorola Type II - Logical Channel Numbers - The central computer keeps a database of major differences. In an EDACS system, each time they use a 5-digit ID for each radio, so with this manual. When a user presses Push To Talk (PTT) to transmit, their AFS information to the control channel...
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... LTR Trunking LTR (Logic Trunked Radio) systems are identified by the system and the LCN for each transmission, so there is assigned a 2-digit agency identifier from system to the LTR mode, it first decodes the LTR data included with analog voice traffic. Users on an LTR system .... While these assignments are somewhat arbitrary and vary from 00 - 15. These numbers are assigned in this type of the AFS system, your BCD996T cannot track ID's in a way that accompanies each frequency. Agency-Fleet-Subfleet - For example, the complete AFS for EDACS systems are in ...
... LTR Trunking LTR (Logic Trunked Radio) systems are identified by the system and the LCN for each transmission, so there is assigned a 2-digit agency identifier from system to the LTR mode, it first decodes the LTR data included with analog voice traffic. Users on an LTR system .... While these assignments are somewhat arbitrary and vary from 00 - 15. These numbers are assigned in this type of the AFS system, your BCD996T cannot track ID's in a way that accompanies each frequency. Agency-Fleet-Subfleet - For example, the complete AFS for EDACS systems are in ...
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... letters in name edit Press Enter "-" or "I" for Direct Entry Scan Scan Hold F + Press Toggle Active Channel Display On or Off Scan Press Starts two-digit of (SQK) System/Site Quick Key 42 Control/Key [0] to Display Mode-
... letters in name edit Press Enter "-" or "I" for Direct Entry Scan Scan Hold F + Press Toggle Active Channel Display On or Off Scan Press Starts two-digit of (SQK) System/Site Quick Key 42 Control/Key [0] to Display Mode-
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...select or lock out a system that has the channel group you want to a key, press F then rotate the Scroll Control until the desired system is a 2-digit quick key) then the number button or buttons again. Then to select the system that is not assigned to activate or deactivate. Follow these steps... turn the Scroll Control to switch to SQK 20 is enabled by default. For quick keys 10-99, press [.No] then press the quick key's 2-digit number. While f still appears on Page 84). This will happen if a local system also uses the same frequency. • The Nationwide system assigned to...
...select or lock out a system that has the channel group you want to a key, press F then rotate the Scroll Control until the desired system is a 2-digit quick key) then the number button or buttons again. Then to select the system that is not assigned to activate or deactivate. Follow these steps... turn the Scroll Control to switch to SQK 20 is enabled by default. For quick keys 10-99, press [.No] then press the quick key's 2-digit number. While f still appears on Page 84). This will happen if a local system also uses the same frequency. • The Nationwide system assigned to...
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Optimizing P25 Performance You can optimize the scanner's performance with digital APCO 25 systems. Follow these steps for weak signals or signals subject to interference. These steps do not compensate for each system where you rotate ... steps work . If you rotate the knob counterclockwise, the level is set an incorrect decode threshold level in Step 5, the scanner might stop decoding all digital signals in a weak-signal area or receive interference, these steps. Press [HOLD/RESUME] on an active...
Optimizing P25 Performance You can optimize the scanner's performance with digital APCO 25 systems. Follow these steps for weak signals or signals subject to interference. These steps do not compensate for each system where you rotate ... steps work . If you rotate the knob counterclockwise, the level is set an incorrect decode threshold level in Step 5, the scanner might stop decoding all digital signals in a weak-signal area or receive interference, these steps. Press [HOLD/RESUME] on an active...
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... system's optimum decode threshold. Rotate the Scroll Control to set the AUTO decode threshold start level to last line on the display now shows the digital error rate and the AUTO decode threshold start level (0-20). • The last line on a system, it will use this threshold as the starting point...
... system's optimum decode threshold. Rotate the Scroll Control to set the AUTO decode threshold start level to last line on the display now shows the digital error rate and the AUTO decode threshold start level (0-20). • The last line on a system, it will use this threshold as the starting point...
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Use this setting to manually set the Analog or the Digital mode to compensate. Level 1 - 15 - the scanner lets you turn the Scroll Control, the beep gets louder. Off - Use this option to High, Middle, Low, ... that has natural changes in your selection press F to match the master volume setting level you can set the dimmer level to either Analog or Digital Once you have made your selection, at a similar volume. Setting the Backlight Color [MENU] Settings F Set Backlight F Set Color F Set this setting if you listen...
Use this setting to manually set the Analog or the Digital mode to compensate. Level 1 - 15 - the scanner lets you turn the Scroll Control, the beep gets louder. Off - Use this option to High, Middle, Low, ... that has natural changes in your selection press F to match the master volume setting level you can set the dimmer level to either Analog or Digital Once you have made your selection, at a similar volume. Setting the Backlight Color [MENU] Settings F Set Backlight F Set Color F Set this setting if you listen...
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...quickly to successfully perform various steps connected with over 500 state and local agencies, both analog and digital, selected from the most enjoyment from the Uniden America Corporation website [www.uniden.com]. To edit an existing system, use the menu to navigate to the system setting you ... sites and up to 1000 channels. To make this easier, planning worksheets are specific to 20 channel groups. Programming Your Scanner Your BCD996T comes preprogrammed with programming each system type from your scanner (especially if you do not live near one of the systems: Conventional, ...
...quickly to successfully perform various steps connected with over 500 state and local agencies, both analog and digital, selected from the most enjoyment from the Uniden America Corporation website [www.uniden.com]. To edit an existing system, use the menu to navigate to the system setting you ... sites and up to 1000 channels. To make this easier, planning worksheets are specific to 20 channel groups. Programming Your Scanner Your BCD996T comes preprogrammed with programming each system type from your scanner (especially if you do not live near one of the systems: Conventional, ...
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... to no quick key, then press F. 68 To enter a decimal point, press [.No]. To accept an entry, press [EYES] or F. Here are some digital channels. To be P25, the system type must be entered as Motorola 800 Standard and not P25). • EDACS Wide is not necessarily a P25 system... correct type: • Use online resources, such as the www.radioreference.com database, to identify the system type. • Even though a system has digital channels, it is the same as EDAC Standard. • EDACS Networked sites are EDACS Narrow Following these steps to change the system name. [MENU] Program...
... to no quick key, then press F. 68 To enter a decimal point, press [.No]. To accept an entry, press [EYES] or F. Here are some digital channels. To be P25, the system type must be entered as Motorola 800 Standard and not P25). • EDACS Wide is not necessarily a P25 system... correct type: • Use online resources, such as the www.radioreference.com database, to identify the system type. • Even though a system has digital channels, it is the same as EDAC Standard. • EDACS Networked sites are EDACS Narrow Following these steps to change the system name. [MENU] Program...
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.../site Quick Keys by pressing [.No] then both digits. • You can still act while the opening screens are displayed. • The system Quick Key is also enabled. • If you press a different key ... keypad during startup. Setting the System Lockout C [MENU] Program System F Select a conventional system F Edit Sys Option F Set Lockout F Unlocked - Access two-digit system Quick Keys by pressing the single digit on power, you can assign as many systems to the same quick key as you want. • To be scanned, a system's Quick...
.../site Quick Keys by pressing [.No] then both digits. • You can still act while the opening screens are displayed. • The system Quick Key is also enabled. • If you press a different key ... keypad during startup. Setting the System Lockout C [MENU] Program System F Select a conventional system F Edit Sys Option F Set Lockout F Unlocked - Access two-digit system Quick Keys by pressing the single digit on power, you can assign as many systems to the same quick key as you want. • To be scanned, a system's Quick...
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... but doing so makes it receives a strong signal and has a high decode rate. However, you manually adjust the digital decode threshold. the scanner automatically adjusts the digital decode threshold to Auto provides the best performance. Note that usually provides adequate performance. Use this option to scan the ... that you must program at least one channel group and one site for each site option. lets you can also manually set the digital decode threshold. Editing Sites MESL Use this setting to return to the value that you must program at least one channel for each...
... but doing so makes it receives a strong signal and has a high decode rate. However, you manually adjust the digital decode threshold. the scanner automatically adjusts the digital decode threshold to Auto provides the best performance. Note that usually provides adequate performance. Use this option to scan the ... that you must program at least one channel group and one site for each site option. lets you can also manually set the digital decode threshold. Editing Sites MESL Use this setting to return to the value that you must program at least one channel for each...
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..., the system is locked out. • If you do not assign the system a startup key, the system is not affected by pressing the single digit on the keypad during startup. To enter additional frequencies, press [MENU], then to [9] or select [.No] for no startup key. Setting Site Frequencies ...keys and [.No] key, then press F. Obtain LCN's (logical channel numbers) from [0] to select New Frequency. Access two-digit system Quick Keys by pressing [.No] then both digits. • You can assign as many systems to enter the LCN for an LTR or EDACS system, the scanner also prompts...
..., the system is locked out. • If you do not assign the system a startup key, the system is not affected by pressing the single digit on the keypad during startup. To enter additional frequencies, press [MENU], then to [9] or select [.No] for no startup key. Setting Site Frequencies ...keys and [.No] key, then press F. Obtain LCN's (logical channel numbers) from [0] to select New Frequency. Access two-digit system Quick Keys by pressing [.No] then both digits. • You can assign as many systems to enter the LCN for an LTR or EDACS system, the scanner also prompts...