Police / Fire Scanners For Vehicles...

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by Desert

Hello,

maybe someone could help answer a question. I am not sure I understand something. I intend to buy a BCD396T but need some clarification. I understand this scanner is unlike conventional type scanners that have "Banks". I understand this scanner does not. I travel around to different places and withe my old conventional type I would put channels in different banks for different areas. For example; I set one bank aside for say Maryland, and another for say Maine etc and that is how I keep everything seperated.

with this type of scanner how can i seperate different areas and only listen to what ever area i am in without blocking out each individual frequency...or can I?..or better yet do i even need to?

Thank ya

I am not very familiar with the BCD396T. But I just bought the BCD996T which is basically the desktop varient. Still in the box and I haven't even started messing with it yet.

But I just read over the instruction manual and it appears to me that opposed to storing your frequency groups directly into banks you simply program them into what appears to be, for all intents and purposes, a separate memory. As opposed to assigning aparticular Trunked system to a dedicated bank you can now access that system simply by pressing the corresponding quick keys.

I am not going to sit hear and say I understand it entirely yet as I have just bought mine. But it does appear to be a much more efficient method from what I can tell just from looking through the manual.

I amlooking forward to playing with the GPS deal on mine. The way I understand that is when I move from one area to the next the Scaner automatically switches to whatever systems cover the area I am in. Now this is slick.

But as for your original question, maybea quick glance through the online manual might help.
http://www.uniden.com/pdf/BCD396Tom.pdf

[Desert]

Thank you.
I did glance through the manual.