Uniden BCD996T manual Programming Your Scanner, General Notes

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Programming Your Scanner

Your BCD996T comes preprogrammed with over 500 state and local agencies, both analog and digital, selected from the most populous areas in the US. This should let you get started quickly to enjoy your new scanner. However, to get the most enjoyment from your scanner (especially if you do not live near one of these counties), you must customize the programming for your area.

To edit an existing system, use the menu to navigate to the system setting you want to change. This section assumes you are programming a new system.

Programming radio systems is completed in two major steps. Don’t skip either step!

1.Plan the system.

2.Program the system into your scanner according to the plan you prepared in Step 1.

To make this easier, planning worksheets are included in the back of this manual for each system type. You can copy the worksheets in this manual or download letter-size worksheets from the Uniden America Corporation website [www.uniden.com].

General Notes

You can store up to 6000 channels in up to 500 systems.

Each trunking system can have up to 256 sites and up to 250 trunked channels (TGID). Each conventional system can have up to 1000 channels.

Your scanner can have up to a total of 1000 sites. Each system can have up to 20 channel groups.

The following table provides you the information to successfully perform various steps connected with programming each of the systems: Conventional, Motorola, EDACS, and LTR. Some operations are common to all of the systems while some are specific to a given system. Use the following table to quickly locate the step you want or need to perform (where required), the reference page for that step, and to which system or systems it applies.

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