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Roger, thank you for the detailed instructions on setting up my 
scanner. Radio Reference doesn't appear to have Westerly police 
frequencies but I found them at another site. I noticed that I do not 
have the "Type 2 P25 UHF" option available only "Type 2 UHF". Is that 
correct for frequencies in the 800mhz bands? As I said before, I have 
never seen "P25" on the screen except at initial start-up and when 
enabling the card. I also find it amusing/frustrating that I can't 
seem to find a "review your set-up" screen to see that everything is 
as I think it should be. Hopefully the Butel software will fix this. 
One other question I had was when using the serial to USB adapter, 
does the unit become "plug and play" or do I need to shut the PC down 
when connecting the scanner. My next step if all else fails is to send 
the scanner to ScannerMaster and have them test and program it. That 
seems a little silly as this is the first scanner I haven't had any 
luck programing.  I have an ICOM R10 and an ICOM R20 that were a 
challenge but I was able to program them. Thanks again and here's to 
hoping the ARC250 gets me on my way. Brian

--- In [email protected], "Roger Strohmeyer" 
<roger.stroh@...> wrote:
>
> First of all, as discussed before on the list you need to go to 
Radio
> Reference for your particular city\county and make sure you have 
*every*
> frequency for that particular P-25 system entered *correctly* into 
*one*
> bank with *no* other frequencies\data entered in to that particular 
bank.
> For P-25 systems the banks are *dedicated* for that P-25 system 
whether the
> system has 3 frequencies or 15 frequencies.
> 
> Below is how I used to program my BC296 (the 250 and 296 are very 
similar
> radios) manually before I started using the Butel ARC250. *Note* the 
offset
> and spacing are critical when programming manually!
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> -Roger
> 
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 5:51 PM, <zaxdad6@...> wrote:
> 
> OK then here's a not dumb question. Is there any indicator on the 
display to
> 
> signify that the scanner is looking for digital signals? Inside the 
manual
> it
> show a P25 icon and on the manual cover it show a frequency and APCO 
25
> displayed right in the middle. I have seen neither of those and when 
I
> program
> the channels I don't see either indication anywhere. I am still 
programing
> manually with the manual. Brian
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* Nick in SLO [mailto:nelhelou@...]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 17, 2004 12:42 AM
> *To:* rstroh@...
> *Subject:* Re: [bayscan] Scanning Marin County (San Rafael PD)?
> 
> Roger,
> 
>     You need to first re-enter all those frequencies you have listed
> "Trunked frequencies"  and not as "Conventional frequencies" if you 
have not
> already done so.
> 
> *1. Turning on the Trunking Feature:*
> 1.) Menu button
> 2.) Scan Option
> 3.) Trunk
> 4.) Trunk Type
> 5.) On
> 6.) Type2/P25 UHF
> 7.) It's going to ask you about Base Config & you need to enter the
> following info:*
> *    1 2 Base: 482.0000  488.0000  Offset: 12.5  12.5  Spacing: 380  
570
> 8.) There is only two sets of configurations, so just leave the 
third blank.
> 
> *2. Programming the trunked frequencies properly:*
> 1.) Menu button
> 2.) Scan Option
> 3.) Trunk
> 4.) Trunk Channel
> 5.) Frequency (this is where you want to re-enter *all* the 
frequencies &
> not where you originally entered them as conventional frequencies.)
> 6.) Hint when prompted to enter an alpha tag for this frequency, 
don't just
> leave it blank. The place you'll want to enter the alpha tag later 
will be
> on the specific talk group.
>   Site Description Freqs                 001 East Zone 482.3500 
482.6250
> 482.6500 482.7875 482.9375 483.0250* 483.1250* 488.7000* 489.0750* 
002 West
> Zone 482.9750 483.0500 483.1500* 488.4250* 488.8500* 489.1000*       
101 Sonoma
> Mtn IR 482.3250 488.4000 488.4750 488.7250 488.8750         102 
Bolinas Fire
> Sta IR 482.6250 482.7875 483.0250 488.4750 489.0750         103 
Bodega Bay
> IR 482.3500 482.6500 482.9375 483.1250 489.0750
> 7.) You'll know when you have programmed the frequencies in right, 
because
> instead of seeing a "C" for Conventional next to every frequencies, 
you'll
> see a "M" next to each frequency which signifies that you have 
properly
> programmed a Motorola Trunked frequency in.
> 
> 
> *3. Programming the talk groups:*
> 1.) Menu button
> 2.) Scan Option
> 3.) Trunk
> 4.) Talk Group
> 5.) Select the proper group to correlate with bank that you have all 
the
> frequencies stored.
> 6.) Now you will store the 4 or 5 digit numbers know as the Decimal 
or DEC
> number that you were asking about  earlier.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >
> >
> 
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