BCD396XT

Bearcat BCD396XT digital Trunktracker IV

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Uniden's APCO-25 Capable portable Trunktracker scanner with Dynamic Memory Architecture. This scanner became available to the market the last week in March, 2009. Discontinued. This is a TrunkTracker IV scanner with Motorola Control Channel Only trunking and I-Call monitoring

Specifications

Physical

Antenna Connector: SMA (w/BNC adapter)
Battery level display
Compatible with BC-RH96 Remote Head
LCD and Keypad Backlight
Multi-color display backlight
Signal Strength display
Strong signal attenuation

Keys

Group Quick Key range: 0-9
3 Quick-Access Search Keys
Startup Keys: 10
System Quick Key range: 0-99

Technical

Band Scope Span Range: 0.2 Mhz To 500 Mhz
Band Scope Step: 5 Khz To 100 Khz
Channels: 25,000 maximum
Channel Number Tagging: 999
Channels per conventional system: 1000 maximum
Custom Search Ranges: 10
Groups per system: 20 maximum
PC Programming and Control
Preprogrammed Service Search Bands: 12
Scan Rate: 100 channels per second (conventional mode)
Search Rate: 300 steps per second (on 5 kHz steps)
12 Service Searches - Public Safety, News, HAM Radio, Marine, Railroad, Air, CB Radio, FRS/GMRS, Racing, FM Broadcast, Military Air, and Special (Itinerant)
Supported step sizes: 5, 6.25, 7.5, 8.33, 10, 12.5,15, 20, 25, 50 or 100 kHz
Systems: 500 maximum
System Number Tagging: 999
Talkgroups per trunked system: 500 maximum
500 (250 Temporary + 250 Permanent) Search Lockouts
16 character text tagging for each system, site, group, channel, talkgroup, search range, location, Tone-out, and SAME group

Frequency Coverage

25.0000 - 512.0000 MHz
758.0000 - 823.9875 MHz
849.0125 - 868.9875 MHz
894.0125 - 960.0000 MHz
1240.0000 - 1300.0000 MHz

Power

3 AA batteries, 6V DC, or 800mA AC adapter. Example: Sony Car DC Adaptor

Features

Adaptive Digital Threshold - Automatically sets the digital decode threshold for APCO 25 systems
Adjustable Hold (scan duration 0-255 sec) per system, custom or service search
Analog and Digital AGC
APCO25 Digital Audio decoding
Battery Saver and charger (dumb)
Broadcast Screen (TV and radio station frequencies, pagers, etc) with 10 custom bands
Close Call, with Close Call Do Not Disturb, Close Call Priority (or Primary), and Close Call Temporary Store
Control Channel Only
DCS/CTCSS Rapid Decode
Duplicate Channel Alert
Fire Tone Out alert
Frequency/ID AutoStore - automatically store frequencies from a service or limit search into a conventional system or store talk group IDs into a trunked system
Independent Alert Tone Volume – lets you set the volume level of the following tones: Key Beep, Emergency Alert, Channel Alert, and Close Call Alert.
Key Lock
Location Alerts - Issues an alert when you approach a stored location
Location Based Scanning
Multi-Site support
Priority Scan
P25 audio decode level adjustment
Quick Search
Repeater Reverse
Search with Scan for Service and Custom Searches with assigned Quick Keys
Startup Configuration
Temporary System, Site, Group, Channel, and Location Lockout
Upgradeable firmware
- Can be updated to support Rebanding? YES
Weather Operations
Wired Cloning (Will only Clone to another BCD396XT)

Improvements over the BCD396T

Ability to flag a channel as Digital, Analog, or All
Adjustable Band defaults
Adjustable Priority check interval
Band Scope mode
Channel Alert
Control Channel Data Output
Display UID (Unit IDs) on trunking systems. Requires version 1.08.14 or newer firmware
EDACS ESK support
Fire Tone Out Search - built-in frequency counter displays the received tones.
Individual channel volume offset
Intermediate Frequency Exchange
Location Based Scanning
Multi-Site support
NAC decoding
Negative Channel dropout delay (forced resume) adjustable to 0-2,5,10,30, -2, -5, -10 seconds
Number Tags allows you to quickly navigate to a specific Favorites List, System, and/or Channel.
Preemptive Priority on Motorola analog systems
Priority ID Scan on trunked systems
Private Systems - lets you flag a system so that it cannot be read out of the scanner or modified.
P25 One-Frequency Trunk
Startup Configuration
Temporary System, Site, Group, Channel, and Location Lockout

RR System Compatibility

This scanner is compatible with the following Trunking System Types and System Voices used in the RadioReference Database, of course you must verify that the scanner will cover the appropriate frequency range:

System Types:
- Motorola Type I
- Motorola Type II
- Motorola Type IIi Hybrid
- Motorola Type II Smartnet
- Motorola Type II Smartzone
- Motorola Type II Smartzone Omnilink
- Motorola Type II VOC
- EDACS Standard (Wide)
- EDACS Standard Networked
- EDACS Narrowband (Narrow)
- EDACS Narrowband Networked
- EDACS SCAT
- EDACS ESK (not ProVoice)
- LTR Standard
- Project 25 Standard Phase I (not Phase II)

System Voices:
- Analog
- Analog and APCO-25 Common Air Interface
- APCO-25 Common Air Interface Exclusive (P25 CAI)

Preloaded Systems and their System Quick Keys

Press and hold 2,9, and Hold, power on the scanner to re-initialize the Memory and restore the Preloaded systems. When it asks do you wish to restore the preloaded systems press the E/Yes key. WARNING This will erase any personal programming you may have done to your DMA.

The preloaded system list for the BCD396XT:

SQK System

21 Alaska ALMR
22 Arkansas AWIN
23 Colorado DTRS
24 Connecticut State
25 Delaware
26 Georgia GEWIN
27 Idaho IIMARS
28 Ill StarCom21
29 Indiana SAFE-T
30 Kansas KSICS
31 Louisiana LATIE
32 Mass State Sys
33 Michigan MPSCS
34 Mississippi MWIN
35 Montana StateSys
36 NC VIPER
37 Nevada SRS
38 Ohio MARCS
39 Rhode Isl RISCON
40 SC Palmetto 800
41 SDakotaState
42 TX DPS
43 Utah UCAN
44 Virginia STARS
45 WVirginia WVIRP
46 WyoLink

Antenna

Uniden # BATG0469001

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