I wanted to say thank you for making this tutorial. I'm very new to radio technologies and this step by step guide allowed me to get started very easily.
You could not have done a better job explaining and showing everything on this video. Stupendous display my man. Awesome job, thank you. Been away from the game for many years but I just picked up a uniden bc996xt and having a blast with all this advancement in technology and antennas and what not. If I can be so bold to ask if you could do a video on antennas and how we decide the one that matches our interests and capabilities...? Peace my man, again, superb job and I for one am so much better off then I was an hour ago!! Hope to see another video on anything scanner related..✌
I surfed around the internet for months. There are a lot of really bad actors out there selling crab. The first thing you need to know is what Mhz are you wanting to listen to the most. For me it was 800Mhz to 900Mhz. So I wanted my antenna tuned for that band. What ever you do please first contact these folks first. I had a really good experience with them Command Communications 416 Woodline Drive Spring, TX 77386 1.877.CMDCOMM Or 281-363-3205 Website WWW.CMDCOMM.com I hope this helps. Let me know how it works out for you.
Hi Bill, great video. Thanks for taking the time to show folks how to do this. I can't find clear instruction anywhere and there aren't any scanner/radio shops in the Reno/Tahoe Nevada area that can help me with this. Mine's been installed and just sitting there for a couple of months which is a shame. I wondered if you had any clear instuctions on how to program with the location based scanning GPS antenna? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Robb in Reno, NV
Good afternoon! I am brand spanking new to any of this scanner business. Your video was the first one I watched and you were quite informative on the buttons that I have no idea about. So I printed out my frequencies for Paulding County Ga all are one liners, not multiple. I will input in a few but what is the difference in setting up a p25 and a conventional method.
Thank you so much for taking the time for making this video. I have a BCD325P2 hand held but the programming looks the same. I think this video will help me since I can't find online software that will work with "Chrome". One question: I see some other codes under some of the municipalities here in WA state, like: "DEC" "HEX" etc .. with I think 3 or 4 digit numbers. What is that?
Hi, I am getting alot of background noise air, when I'm listening to pd frequency in my local area, everything else sounds great clear, the stock antenna or my 2m/70cm still get background noise its pretty bad, maybe a different antenna would kill the noise? On my ham radio my police frequencies sound great
Ok first question, is the audio coming in still digital? Second is, if I want to listen to my local fire department and I know they are on our starcom 21 system (Illinois) and I have selected the correct simulcast tower (cook north) how do I know witch of those number that I’m putting in is what department. I can try and give a better example if it does not make any sense.
I'm having issues with the handheld version of this scanner. I've seen in a few different places / videos where guys are saying you also need to store these "digital / P2" frequencies in with your "conventional" "system" also. Anyone have any more knowledge on this?
I’m from Mississippi, we use p25 phase 2 system. Ours looks like the diagram with the red and blue also, but if you look further down the list it’s got the talkgroups for the whole state but no frequency’s. How would I go about finding them?
Its unfortunate but I got mine used from ebay and in about 3 days I programmed my county and 3 others all within 5 miles, all I got was static and background noise like air, barely got 1,2 bars on signal strength on any NFM police frequency, on fm broadcast I got perfect signal 5 bars! So I returned it getting a brand new one hopefully I won't have same problem
I bought an antenna that was tuned to 800mhz. Go to www.cmdcomm.com theses folks are in Texas I'm sure they can help you choose an antenna that would be optimum for the band you listen to the most. I had a great experience with them. Happy Scanning
i know this is an old video but i thought i'd try anyway i put in 770.60625 but on the screen it reads back 770.6062 is this okay is this still gonna work, it always cuts off the last number after i put them in. i have a bcd325p
I have a trunk tracker v bcd996p2 and it supposed to cycle through multiple channels but it is stuck on one channel and when people are not talking on the channel it makes a static sound please help me find out to make it cycle through all the channels again
I think it's as simple as turning up the squelch at the top left of your scanner . Turn to the right for adjustment. This should fix your issue. Let me know if this helps?
hope this works my county is switching over ... part of county is there allready but by april 10 2023 the entire county will be p25 only thing i gotta figure out is how to delete the old setup... thanx
@@reelmojofishing2568 thank you finally got around to reprograming this worked perfectly and I'm up an running... 2 separate regions ... had to figure that out to put them under different slots
This so simple to program I think every genius ought to buy one. It's not worth it The high price of a scanner and the time and aggravation . The forces in charge don't want the public to be able to listen to what's going on in our society. And they're winning.
You left out lots of information on this video. You don't simply add the frequencies for a P25 Trunked system, you also have to include the talk group ID's or the NAC codes if it's a Conventional P25 so that you can listen to specific department within a given site/system. I don't have the patience to explain how this works but all I can say is that if you don't know how to program a digital scanner or don't have somebody to program it for you........DON'T BUY ONE!!!
yes thanks to this comment i knew what to look for ... this scanner is easy considering ive never even tried till this morning... still have alot of questions but so far im listening to my local channels
Hey man I’m very new to the whole scanner stuff and the one thing I want to know is how to program a specific department off the p25 system I see I can put in the numbers but have no idea if I will be able to see what department is what
How dare somebody buy something they aren't completely familiar with and try to learn about it, am I right? Everybody who wasn't born with all the knowledge about Digital Trunked radios should just stay away. Dick face.
