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Easier to Read BCD396T/UBCD396T Digital Scanner Manual

Planning your systems will be very important even if you do have the software. Organizing your quick keys will be the hardest part of the planning. You can assign quick

keys and copy and paste most of the freqs, alpha tags, and IDs easily into the software.

Most people can get everything they scan into the scanner. I like to scan by general interest so I set my system quick keys accordingly; 1-Public Safety systems, 1-

Trunked PS systems, 2-Air, 2-Air Trunked systems, 3-Military, 3 Military Trunked systems, 4-Federal, etc. Then I will nest my groups (ex: Fire, Police, EMS) within the

conventional systems, (Fire IDs, Police IDs, EMS ID within trunked systems) and give them all group quick keys.

So, you have to figure out which systems and groups to assign to your quick keys so you can scan them without a table of contents and with some sort of logic you can

remember. Use the worksheets below to help you plan your systems and groups.

Alerts

You can program your scanner to alert you when, a channel is received, you receive a Close Call hit, a talkgroup ID is transmitted with an emergency alert, or you

receive a Tone-out hit. For each alert in the scanner, you can select from 9 different tone patterns, and 15 volume settings.

Worksheets

I have put together complete worksheets ready to print to help you plan your systems, Close Call, and Fire Tone-Out, etc. settings. Even if you don't fill them out, they are

a good check list for programming. If you don't have Excel you can download and install a viewer

here.

BCD396T Excel worksheets

UBCD396T Excel worksheets

Entering Text

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To program text you must first program the system, group, channel, custom search, Tone-Out, or SAME group. There are links to refer you back here while you are

programming.

To enter a letter, turn the scroll control until the character you want appears.

(character order clock-wise is upper-case, lower-case, numbers, then special characters).

To enter a decimal point, press (.)no.

To move the cursor to the right, press 6>.

To move the cursor to the left, press <4.

To clear a character or enter a space, press (.)no twice.

To clear all characters, press (.)no 3 times.

Press E/yes when finished to exit.

Press the 'Back' button in your browser to return to programming.

Programming Systems

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