User manual UNIDEN BCT8

[. . . ] Precautions Before you use this scanner, please observe the following: WARNING!Uniden America Corporation does not represent this unit to be waterproof. To reduce the risk of fire, electrical shock, or damage to the unit, do not expose this unit to rain or moisture. · This scanning radio has been manufactured so that it will not tune radio frequencies assigned by the FCC for cellular telephone usage. [. . . ] Then press E. The "E" (EDACS), "M" (Motorola) or "L" (LTR) appears depending on the trunked system selected. If the frequency is out of the range of the system chosen in this step, you will hear an error tone, the channel number flashes and an error message appears on the display. Use the L or M key to select the next channel in the bank and press E. To lockout the keypad to prevent re-programming of talkgroups, you can use Memory Lock (Refer to "Memory Lock" on page 22). Hint: If you want to return to the previous menu screen, press HOLD/RESUME in the Trunk Programming mode. Programming Talk Group ID/Scan Lists Scan Lists Each bank of your BCT8 can be a trunk tracking bank and it can be a conventional scanning bank. When you designate a bank as a trunking bank, your scanner sets up 5 Scan Lists, which are simply lists used to store your favorite Talk Group IDs. Each list can contain up to 10 IDs, so you can store a total of 50 IDs for each trunk tracking bank. (250 IDs if you use all the banks as trunking banks!) Scan Lists help you organize the trunking system users into categories. For example, you might use List#1 for police IDs, List#2 for fire department IDs, List#3 for emergency medical service IDs, etc. Once IDs are stored in lists, you can scan them as you scan conventional frequencies and you can lockout any one (up to 4) of the 5 Scan Lists by pressing the corresponding numeric key. When an ID is active, the Scan List number will appear on the display. You can program your Scan Lists either manually or during Trunking Search mode. Check the web site www. trunktracker. com for a complete list of talkgroups for your area that you can program into your Scan Lists. 31 In order to program Talk Group ID's, you must first complete Step1­"Selecting Trunking System Type", page 30 and Step 2 ­ "Programming Trunking Frequencies", page 31. After programming a frequency, press HOLD/RESUME to return to the main screen of system type selected and select . To enter a Type 1 ID: For a Type I ID, the Block number, Fleet number and Subfleet number make up the Talk Group ID number. Enter the ID you want to store by using the keypad (ID = Block number + Fleet number + . Or you can program all the Talk Group numbers within one fleet of an Agency. Hint: Remember that Uniden's AFS format allows you to enter full or partial EDACS IDs for powerful flexibility in all modes. Be sure to read the section "EDACS Reception" on page 39 to learn how this works. Note: The BCT8 default to "AFS" talkgroup displays for EDACS® only. To enter a LTR ID: For a LTR ID, the Area Code, Home Repeater number and ID make up the Talk Group ID. 32 Please see page 42 for more information. Press E. Note: To clear a stored ID while entering an ID, press 0 and E successively, and start over. Receiving Trunked Systems When you have properly programmed all the frequencies for a trunked system, you can monitor the system in several different ways. [. . . ] The next two or three digits identify which Fleet is active, and the last digit(s) identifies the Subfleet. Block (1 digit) Subfleet (1 or 2 digits) Which Fleet within the Block (2 or 3 digits) Your task is to program your fleet map with the same size code assignments as the trunked system. If you do this accurately, you'll track all the Fleet-Subfleet combinations used by the system. In other words, you'll hear complete communications while monitoring a trunked system. If you don't already know the size codes used, you'll have to guess at them. [. . . ]