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. [. . . ] Use the keypad and for the trunked system. . (decimal key) to enter a frequency Note: To clear a mistake while entering a frequency, press (decimal key) twice, and start over. 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. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until all frequencies have been entered. Press SRCH to begin searching the bank you`ve programmed. Then select the programmed bank by using the keypad. 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 . Select the Scan List location by using the L or M key. Enter the Talk Group IDs for each trunk system as follows. Enter the ID you want to store by using the keypad. [. . . ] If you decide you are receiving most of the replies to the conversations with IDs assigned to the block you just programmed, then you've probably selected the right size code and can work on the next block of the map. Finally, for most public safety systems there are some size codes which are more common. SIZE CODE 3 and SIZE CODE 4 are probably the most common, followed by SIZE CODE 10, SIZE CODE 11, and SIZE CODE 12. 59 Fleet Map Size Codes Size 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Fleets Subfleets IDs Blocks Used 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 4 8 Reserves block for Type II IDs 128 16 8 1 64 32 32 16 8 4 2 1 1 1 4 8 8 16 4 8 4 4 4 8 16 16 16 16 16 64 128 512 32 32 64 128 256 256 256 1024 2048 4096 Size Code Restrictions If you select SIZE CODE 12, 13, or 14, there are some restrictions as to which blocks can be used for these codes. · SIZE CODE 12 can only be assigned to Blocks 0, 2, 4, or 6. [. . . ]