Enter the system number, press. No , then the channel number and press MENU. No , and press MENU. Notes: Selecting just a system will hold on the first frequency in the system not ID. The same rule applies to channel number tags so don't start at 1 for each channel group in the system.
The Band Scope feature lets you have the scanner provide a visual representation of radio activity in a frequency band.
The screen is arranged with the frequencies increasing in value from left-to-right, and a signal strength meter for signals. Band Scope Mode searches a frequency range and displays the signal level in real time.
You can set the center frequency and span of the frequency range. In Hold Mode, you can monitor the displayed frequency. The scanner rapidly sweeps between the endpoints of the selected frequency range and updates each bar segment with the relative signal strength in each pass. You can use the band scope in normal mode the bars are all updated with the most recent signal strength or 'Max Hold Mode' the bars update only if there is a stronger signal than one previously stored for the current position.
This feature allows you to get a "picture" of spectrum activity across the selected range, identify intermittently active frequencies, check antenna performance, check coax quality, verify coverage areas, and identify interference.
This mode prevents accidental programming changes and prevents anyone from changing modes. This feature is for handing the scanner to someone without the person screwing up your radio.
Some keys don't work in this mode. The scanner only operates in one mode; the mode the scanner was in when the radio was last turned off. So, if you turned the scanner off in Close Call mode and turn it back on in Key-Safe mode, that's the mode you're stuck with.
In the following tables, keys with numbers in each mode refer to the legend below each chart. Keys with blank cells work as normal for each mode. Therefore, if someone hit their emergency button and their radio was on talk group 16, all communications would switch to talk group Therefore, if your fire department dispatch talk group is , and they do dispatch tone-outs and alarms as Multi-selects, then those communications will be on talk group Thanks to the Radio Reference.
Trunking systems let a large group of 2-way radio users or even different groups of 2-way radio users efficiently use a set of frequencies. The trunking system automatically transmits the call on the first available frequency, and also sends on a different frequency called a Data or Control channel a code that uniquely identifies that transmission as a talkgroup ID or just ID.
So when you are trunktracking a system, you are listening to active IDs transmitting in the system each using the first available frequency in the system. Trunking systems in general allocate and use fewer frequencies among many different users.
Since the trunking system might send a call and its response on different frequencies, it is difficult to listen to trunked communications using a conventional scanner. These scanners let you monitor the control channel frequency so you can hear calls and responses for users and more easily "follow" conversations than with a conventional scanner. This trunking scanner trunktracks the following types of systems:. When you program Motorola and EDACS system frequencies into the scanner, one frequency is the control or data channel, and the rest are voice frequencies shared by all the users.
There may be 3 or 4 frequencies assigned as primary or alternate control channels but only one control channel will be active at a time.
These scanners will allow you to program just Motorola control channels into the trunking system and the voice channels will automatically be found but not programmed. The control channel is continually transmitted to the field units and has a sound similar to listening to a boat engine over the phone in manual mode; you won't hear this when you are trunking the system.
This control channel is also a good check to see if you can trunktrack the system. If you can't hear a control channel when you step through the trunking frequencies in manual mode , you either don't have all the frequencies or are too far away to receive the control channel and the system. Motorola systems are limited to a maximum of 28 frequencies per system or site. Mixed Motorola systems should be programmed as Motorola systems and not P25 digital systems. This scanner can't monitor digital systems.
LTR systems work a little differently. LTR systems typically do not have a dedicated control channel. This type of system encodes all trunking information as digital subaudible data that accompanies each transmission. The frequencies also have to be in LCN Logical Channel Number order or the correct 'slot' for the system to trunktrack properly.
Each repeater has its own controller, and all of these controllers are synchronized together. Even though each controller monitors its own channel, one of the channel controllers is assigned to be a master that all controllers report to.
Each of these controllers sends out a data burst approximately every 10 seconds so that the subscriber units know that the system is there. This data burst is not sent at the same time by all the channels, but happens randomly throughout all the system channels.
If you listen to the frequencies of an LTR system in manual mode not trunking , on every channel in the system you will hear this data burst that will sound like a short blip of static like someone keyed up and unkeyed a radio within about msec.
LTR systems are limited to 20 frequencies per system. This will give you ' Nothing to Scan ' in the display. Now you can jump into programming your frequencies. Press POL once to turn on a state. Press POL until all icons disappear again. See Preset Fleetmaps. See Size Codes. Repeat for each block as needed and you will return to the ' Edit Sys Option ' menu. Note: If you select size code 12, 13, or 14, these restrictions apply:. Since these size codes require multiple blocks, you will be prompted for the next available block.
For example, if you assign Block 0 as 12, the scanner prompts you for block 2, the next block available, instead of block 1.
If you assign Block 0 as 14, you would not see another prompt because 14 uses all available blocks. Hold Mode in Function Mode Screen. Band Scope mode is assigned to this search key 3 by default. Search Mode ' SRCH ' shows in the display and the scanner searches and displays the signals of the frequency range in real time. The frequency range is shown in 32 bars determined by the center frequency and span.
While searching, the center frequency icon and the bar which shows the current frequency blink. The scanner starts from the lowest frequency of the frequency range and searches to the highest frequency of the frequency range.
If the scanner finds a transmission, the scanner displays the strongest and most current signal level in the bar for each frequency in the range. Max Hold Search Mode ' MAX ' shows in the display and will freeze the signal strength bars at their strongest signals.
Hold Mode ' HOLD ' shows in the display and allows you hold the sweep then scroll to and listen to a frequency. To listen to any frequency under the marker Hold in either mode and scroll to the frequency. Press Hold to return to the sweep. To enter the Settings Screen press.
This screen displays center frequency of the range, search step, and span of the range on the bottom lines for 10 seconds and the icon of the selected item blinks.
No again to move to the next parameter. To change the center frequency press. No until SPN is blinking then use the scroll control to select. To change the search step press. No until STP is blinking then use the scroll control to select the step size from kHz. Press and hold 7 Att for global attenuation. Note: the ATT icon only shows in Function mode.
Notes: The search time changes depending on the search step size. The step defaults to the default band step for the channel. Pager - the scanner skips known paging system frequencies. FM - the scanner skips known FM frequencies. Band - the scanner skips known frequencies for custom broadcast ranges. Scroll to ' Search for At ' Select Key No. Repeat for any other search keys you want to program. To hold on a CC hit press Hold.
Press Hold again to resume. See Close Call Hold Mode. To cancel a CC hit turn the scroll control. To view the last CC hit press Hold. To exit CC only p ress SQ. To start a 'Quick Search' at the current frequency turn the scroll control then press Hold.
To search for another weather channel turn the scroll control. Notes: For two-tone pages, enter the tones in Hz for tone A and tone B. For one-tone pages using short tones between 1. For long-tone pages, such as group pages of more than 3.
To search for tones, leave the tones for A and B at 0. Press MENU to return. To select another Tone-Out turn the scroll control. Block Lower ID Upper ID 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Last updated October 26, Click here to buy a printed, bound, formatted in color, copy of this manual from Scanner Master.
Last Updated October 26, Scanning 'Systems'. Main Features. Scanning Terminology. Display Modes 1, 2, and 3. Understanding Dynamic Memory. Understanding Quick Keys. Conventional Simplex and Repeater Systems. Understanding Trunking. Understanding Multi-Site Trunking.
Understanding IDs. Turning on the Scanner and Setting the Squelch. Channel Volume Offset. Navigating the Menu. View Repeater Frequency. Keypad and Knob Controls. Intermediate Frequency Exchange.
A Look at the Display. Auto Step Size Chart. Changing Priority Modes. Setting Band Defaults. Weather Alert Priority. Changing Close Call Modes. Setting GPS Format. Using Number Tags. Memory Used. Scanner Reset. Using Bear Tracker Scanning. Band Scope Mode. Select a State. Bear Tracker Warning System. Broadcast Screen. Planning Systems, Sites, and Groups.
Service Search. Custom Search. Set Search Key. Programming 'Systems'. Search and Store. Private Systems. Conventional Systems. Quick Search. Motorola Systems. Storing a Displayed Frequency. Reviewing Locked out Frequencies.
LTR Systems. Close Call Only. Creating 'Sites'. Close Call Auto store. Managing Close Call Hits. Creating 'Groups'. Hits with Scan. Weather Scan. Quickly Storing a Frequency. Program SAME. Quickly Storing an ID. Weather Alert. Key Safe Mode. GPS Display Mode. Using Startup Keys. Here we go again. Uniden has put out this fabulous scanner that will do a multitude of scanning achievement and you are here to find out how.
This scanner is exceptionally harder to program for many even seasoned programmers because, there is no printed manual and the CD manual is too cluttered. I have written this manual to keep all of you from giving up hope, loosing you mind, trying to return your scanner, or all of the above. This manual is a culmination of the Wiki, the CD manual, pages!?
Fire Tone-Out will now search and find your tones to program duh. You can edit the default receive bands of the scanner to better and quicker suit your scanning preferences. For the 'techs', you can now enter your Motorola IDs in hexadecimal format. They have increased the max range limit for approaching a POI from 2 to 4 miles. For those of you who use GPS enabled scanning on mountain tops, they increased the max range setting from 50 to miles.
Now the annoying stuff. Right out of the box all of the Bear Tracker features are turned on which is ridiculous if you don't know how to turn them off. The default volume for the Bear Tracker alert tone is like a smoke detector, way too loud for any poor soul who gets caught in front of the scanner when it goes off.
Most of you that have the scanner have rudely found this out. They also dropped attenuation for Bear Tracker scanning and the 'Max Priority Scan' feature which limits the number of preset Bear Tracker priority channels scanned with priority on. Number tags should be viewed with the rest of the channel info so you can just scroll to them. With Key-Safe Mode you are stuck with just the last mode the scanner was in when you turned off the radio i.
Close Call, Scan, etc. Maybe they should've called it Mode-Safe Mode? Startup Configuration can't be canceled once you start using it; the scanner remembers the last use configuration unless you use another, still scans multiple trunking systems relatively slow even with the hold time set to 0 especially if you have a lot of IDs programmed. You have to hold on a channel first, to attenuate it. There is no 'per channel' delay; you must set the delay for the whole system all sites, all groups, all channels.
Resetting the radio- how many of you can do that on the first try? Updating the firmware after trying to get it from Uniden's website is still very complicated. And, the biggest complaint was no printed manual. If you don't need 9, channels, negative delay, or the Band Scope mode you're better off with the older BCT There are better antennas out there to use than the one that comes with the scanner.
The stock whip isn't fabulous. You may be able to find others on the web but RS is convenient so you can buy it and take it back in the same day if you don't like it. Read the reviews for each at the site. Bear Tracker Warning System - alerts you when channels normally used by public safety systems and 'mobile extenders' are in use nearby. State-by-State Preprogrammed Channels - lets you easily monitor activity on local Police, Department of Transportation, and Highway Patrol frequencies when you travel without having to program any channels.
Dynamically Allocated Channel Memory - organized into 'Systems', 'Sites', within trunking systems , 'Groups' within systems , and channels within groups. Up to systems, 1, total sites max per system , 20 groups per system, and 25, channels max IDs or 1, frequencies per system.
Multi-Site Trunking - lets you program the scanner to share trunked system IDs across multiple sites without duplicating IDs, and turn each site on and off independently so that you can select the best site to scan for your area.
Control Channel Only Scanning - allows you to enter just the control channels to trunktrack a Motorola system and the scanner will find the voice channels.
You can assign number tags to systems, channels, service searches, and custom search ranges. Band Scope Mode - Band Scope mode is a special type of search mode where the scanner displays the strength of any signal it finds. Preemptive Priority - a feature that works on Motorola systems. If the Motorola system has priority channels, and you assign one of those talkgroups as priority in the scanner, then when one of those channels becomes active, the scanner will jump to it even if it is on a different system voice channel i.
Individual Channel Volume Offset - allows you to adjust the volume offset for each channel. Control Channel Data Output - allows the analysis of control channel data without the need to perform invasive modifications to the scanner. Private Systems - lets you flag a system so that it cannot be read out of the scanner or modified only with optional software.
Key Safe Mode - lets you hand the scanner to a novice user and prevent programming from being modified. Location-Based Scanning - using an optional GPS unit you can scan your systems based on a set range from your current location. GPS Location-Based Alerts - notifies you when you are near an area you have programmed as a dangerous road, dangerous intersection, or a general point of interest.
Close Call RF Capture Technology - lets you set the scanner so it detects and provides information about nearby radio transmissions. Close Call 'Do-not-Disturb' checks for Close Call activity in between channel reception so active channels are not interrupted. You can set up to 10 settings transmit frequency, tone frequencies then select one for standby monitoring.
The scanner will also search and display unknown tones. For each alert in the scanner, you can select from 9 different tone patterns, 15 volume settings, and 2 blink patterns. Repeater Reverse - allows the scanner to try to switch to the repeater if an input frequency is found. Broadcast Screen - allows the scanner to ignore hits on known broadcast frequencies including pager frequencies in search and Close Call modes. You can also program up to 10 custom frequency ranges that the scanner will ignore.
Text Tagging - you can name each system, site, group, channel, talk group ID, custom search range, location, Tone-Out, and SAME group, using up to 16 characters per name. The scanner also displays the alert type. Dimmer Circuit - a special wire lets you connect to the dimmer circuit of your vehicle so the vehicle's dimmer also dims the scanner's lighting. Multi-Level Display and Keypad light - makes the display and keypad easy to see with three light levels.
Signal Strength Meter - shows the signal strength for the more powerful transmissions. Quick Search - lets you search from the currently-tuned frequency or channel or enter a frequency and start searching. Automatic Channel Setup - accepts frequencies on any valid channel step, even if it does not fall within the band plan's default steps.
Configurable Band Defaults - allows you to set the step 5, 6. Attenuator - you can set the scanner's attenuator to reduce the input strength of strong signals by about 20 dB per channel, search band, close call band, or trunked system.
Duplicate Frequency Alert - alerts you if you try to enter a duplicate name or frequency already stored in the scanner. Search Lockouts - you can lock out up to frequencies temporary, permanent in search or close call search. Channel- a programmed frequency or talk group ID location.
Scanning- the process of stepping through conventional channels in groups, which are in programmed 'systems'. Searching- the process of searching for active frequencies in quick search, service, custom search, Close Call search, Search and Store, or Close Call Auto Store.
Function Mode- the mode the radio is in when it's waiting for another key press or scroll. Hold Mode- used for monitoring a single system, site, channel, frequency, or Close Call Hit.
Band Scope Mode- the mode the radio is in while doing a Band Scope search. Tone-Out Mode- the mode the radio is in when it's monitoring paging tones. The scanner's memory is organized in an architecture called Dynamic Allocated Channel memory. Dynamic Allocated design matches how radio systems actually work much more closely and make it easier to determine how much memory you have used and how much you have left. No memory space is wasted.
Since you can only program one trunking system per bank in a traditional scanner, and let's say you only have 10 banks, you can only store 10 trunking systems. Also, since some trunked systems might have hundreds of talk groups you wish to monitor, you might have to enter those systems into multiple banks in order to monitor all the ID's. Instead of being organized into separate banks and channels, the scanner's memory is contained in a pool.
You build the systems and groups then use as much memory as you need in the pool to store frequencies, talk group ID's, and alpha tags. With all previous scanners, you selected banks to scan that had channels stored in them. With this scanner, you select conventional 'Systems' or trunking 'Sites' to scan that have channel 'Groups' stored within the 'Systems'. Conventional systems have frequency groups and trunking systems have ID groups.
For trunking systems, you have to create at least 1 'Site' Motorola and EDACS only or multiple sites first that hold the trunking frequencies for each site. The ID channel 'Groups' stored within the trunking systems can be used with all the sites. You can have total channels per conventional system and up to 'Sites' if you have enough memory. You can have a maximum of Systems, Sites, and 9, Channels.
Simplex systems use a single frequency for both transmit and receive. Most radios using this type of operation are limited to line-of-sight operation. The range is typically miles, depending upon the terrain and many other factors. Repeater systems use two frequencies: one transmits from the radio to a central repeater; the other transmits from the repeater to other radios in the system.
With a repeater based system, the repeater is located on top of a tall building or on a radio tower that provides great visibility to the area of operation.
When a user transmits on an input frequency , the signal is picked up by the repeater and retransmitted on an output frequency. The user's radios always listen for activity on the output frequency and transmit on the input frequency. Since the repeater is located very high, there is a very large line of sight. Typical repeater systems provide coverage out to about a mile radius from the repeater location. Your scanner can receive transmissions that use these codes or more commonly referred to as tone codes.
Some Motorola and EDACS systems covering a very large geographic area use multiple antenna sites that each operate on different frequencies and use the same talkgroup IDs for traffic.
Each site will have its own set of trunking frequencies and is monitored like a single system. Each site can have its own quick key, so you can turn each individual site on or off while you scan. Program your talkgroups into channel groups within that system and all talkgroups in the system are available to every site so they don't have to be reprogrammed for each site. Since all sites share all the talkgroups within the system, multi-site trunking is much more efficient than programming each site as a separate system.
Radio Reference. IDs are what you see instead of frequencies when you monitor a trunking system. Each format displays and uses talk group IDs in slightly different ways. Type I systems are usually organized with different IDs assigned to different fleets. To properly trunk a Type I system, you have to program the fleet map for the system.
Type II IDs are identified by a 5-digit number. Decimal IDs are shown as a decimal number from 0 to I-call IDs are usually 6-digit IDs ex: Note: To view unit IDs you have to turn the option on in the ' Settings ' menu. Note: this applies to a fresh scanner right out of the box or one that has been reset with the preprogrammed systems reloaded.
Rotate VOL clockwise to turn on the scanner and set the volume to around The scanner should start scanning one of the preprogrammed states after the welcome screen disappears.
Press Hold. Find a comfortable volume level. Rotate the SQ knob counter-clockwise all the way then clockwise until the noise stops, then one notch more. Press Hold to resume scanning.
Right away you may want to check these settings in the ' Settings ' menu. See also turning off the Bear Tracker features to disable some of the default Bear Tracker features and alerts. The only things you will be able to scan right out of the box are the preprogrammed states in the scanner. You will, however, be able to use the Bear Tracker Warning System and do a service search , custom search , weather scan , search and store , close call search , or close call auto store. The scanner's menu lets you select options that let you set up and use the scanner using the MENU key.
To select a menu item, rotate the scroll control clockwise or counterclockwise. The currently-selected menu item is highlighted with a bar on the display. To back up a level, press MENU. Each of the knobs and keys on the BCTX produce several different results depending upon how you activate them.
You can, for example, rotate the knobs as well as press them. Some keys provide one operation when briefly pressed while pressing and holding a key or knob gives a different result. Many controls and keys behave differently depending on the mode your radio is in when you use the key or control. Turn to adjust the squelch. Press to toggle temporary Alert Mute on or off in Any Mode.
The blue light flashes with a Close Call hit. The red light flashes once then stays on for a weather or Bear Tracker alert. Press to toggle through the backlight intensities in Any Mode. Press to toggle selected State frequencies or Dept. Of Transportation frequencies or both, on or off in Scan Mode. Press to go to Scan Mode in Any Mode.
HP ALT. GPS WX. Press to e nter Menu Mode. Press to return to previous menu. Press to toggle the lockout status of a channel in Scan Mode. Press to toggle the lockout status of a frequency in Search Mode.
Press and hold to unlock and enable all groups and channels in a system in Scan Hold Mode. Press to exit Menu Mode or return to the last mode. Number Keys. Enter any 3-digit system number tag then. Press to toggle custom searches on or off in Search Mode.
Press 4 to move the cursor to the left when editing text. Press 6 to move the cursor to the right when editing text. Press to cancel an error or warning message.
Press to enter a decimal point after a system number tag. Press to enter a decimal point for a frequency while programming. Press to enter a hyphen when entering an ID while programming. Press to enter an 'i' when entering an 'I-Call' ID while programming. Press once to delete current character when editing text. Press twice to delete all characters when editing text. E Yes. Press to select a menu item or save an entry in Menu Mode.
Press to store found tones in Tone-Out Search Mode. Press to enter the Menu mode for a displayed channel in Scan Mode. Press to enter Function Mode for 4 seconds. Press and hold to lock Function Mode. Press again to unlock. Turn to scroll to a menu item in Menu Mode. Turn to select characters when editing text. Press to hold on a channel, frequency, search, Close Call hit, or Tone-Out search. Press again to resume. Press to hold in Band Scope Mode. Q: Can digital scanners pick up police frequencies?
Regardless of whether your local police use an analog or digital system, a digital scanner will be able to access the frequency. Most modern police scanners rely on digital technology, so it is not difficult to find an effective option. This is NOT a digital scanner.
Once software files containing frequencies are loaded into the software program on your computer, you can. You just cracked open your brand spanking new Uniden police scanner. If you get into programming a trunked system by hand, then you would need to enter both, the frequencies and the talkgroups. If this system works for you, you can use it as an example to learn how to manually add new systems in the future if they are not in the database here.
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Thread starter Jeffdpsm Start date Mar 3, Tags bct15x. Status Not open for further replies. Jeffdpsm Newbie. Joined Mar 3, Messages 1. I want to use it to listen to my local fire Dept with Tone out feature , Police, Air and Military frequencies.
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