RE: Re: I just ordered a BC785D today. Questions?

I have now both the BC785D and the BC250D and we have Motorola type 1 NOT 
type 2 system as I thought before, so I have to figure out how to find the 
Fleet map.


>From: "fmon1" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [UnidenBC785D] Re: I just ordered a BC785D today. Questions?
>Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 15:46:59 -0000
>
>I think your area is Motorola II.  Find in the files section of this
>group a doc called How to program Motorola II Systems.doc
>Short cut for Mot II systems.  This will help until you get software
>of which I have several and prefer ARC.  You can use conventional
>freqs in a trunked bank but an active trunking system works better if
>conv's are not in the bank (or locked out).
>
>BTWm the 785 is a great radio, the 250 is the same except handheld.
>
>Frank
>--- In [email protected], "singlelight2003" <[email protected]>
>wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am "Brand-New" to the group here but I have been reading online
> > for several days for a good truck-tracking scanner that will scan
>my
> > local Police dept which is on 800 trucking (Motorola analog Type
> > II ...I think). I've avoided a truck tracking scanner for years
> > because of lack of info and not knowing how to use/program them.
>Not
> > many stores know much about them here in my town and forget about
> > programming info! Even the Radio Shack stores I've walked in have
> > never figured out how to successfully program their trunk-tracking
> > radios or else I would have purchased one on the spot! Other places
> > have told me in the past that I could not scan trunk-Traking freqs
> > AND the regular VHF freqs at same time, (I guess for older scanners
> > that may have been true) LOL. Si I've had to learn all this info as
> > best I can and the internet can sometimes be over-kill if you know
> > what I mean! LOL BTW, I run an small electronics repair shop (CET
> > and Ham) and already have a Pro-51 and Pro-2004 but no truck
>tracker
> > to moniter our local police activities. Also as a business owner in
> > the city I really wanted a small scanner to Monitor our 800Mhz
> > Trunked Police Dept and place this small scanner near our repair-
> > bench to monitor (especially City Police) and also Fire/Rescue/Hwy
> > Patrol. I didn't care to much about 1000 channels but nice feature
> > to program all into the scanner and lock most of them out but be
> > able to manually go into them to moniter any freq. And the
>Alpha/Num
> > display makes ID'ing each freq very nice. Anyhow back to my
> > question... Did I buy the right and a good scanner? I was told by
> > someone who services our County Patrol cars and Fire/Rescue that
> > they were working on going Digital next 6months to year,
> > although "many" others doubt that info. I live in a smaller city
>and
> > I'm told the budget isn't in for Digital for awhile, but who knows?
> > I thought the BC785D would cover me. Also This same place in my
>area
> > told me they've installed several BC785D's in EMT/Fire/rescue
> > vehicles. So that got my interest in this BC785D Scanner. I live in
> > New Bern, NC (Eastern NC). I want to moniter our Local Police and
> > Fire/Rescue/Sheriff/HwyPatrol/ mainly. Not interested in MIL or AIR
> > traffic although if I have open memory channels I may program them
> > and alpha tag them as a nice freq resource. I have no experience
> > with a Trunk-tracker scanner at all. Sometimes the more I read and
> > research on the internet, the more confused I get. The scanner
> > itself seems to be a no-brainer, it's the programming and all this
> > software stuff that has me asking questions. I'll probably program
> > it once and use it and forget it or I could be wrong and really get
> > into using it. Also I was thinking of just using the factory ant as
> > I've heard about it's super-sensitivity and I do not want to use an
> > outside ant and over saturate it as I live right in the city. Any
> > suggestions? Are many of you just using the factory ant? I was told
> > I will get some Software and a cable for my computer to program it
> > easily and that it comes with the scanner. Is this true? Appears to
> > be a std serial cable and alot of software is on the net. I've read
> > the ARC250 is best, what is the easiest to learn and use? I'm not
> > using this scanner for serious listening, just for monitoring the
> > basics and I'll add all other freq's into the remainder and lock
> > them out just to have them in memory for reference, like if I
> > manually program someone's scanner. Well any comments are helpful.
> > Sorry if this post is not well written, it is very late! (Smile) I
> > just found this group and wanted to get some advance help so when
>my
> > BC785D arrives in 2 days I'll have the knowledge to put it to use
> > without much effort. Again sorry for long post, it's late and I
>have
> > many questions. I think maybe many of them will be answered when
>the
> > BC785D arrives and I use it -or- maybe I'll even have more
>questions
> > then! (LOL)
> >
> > Thanks from a Newbie!
> >
> > Dan Garris KJ4FH
> > New Bern, NC
>
>





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