BCD996T

Uniden's Base/Mobile Digital Trunktracker scanner with Dynamic Memory Architecture and GPS Support. This is a TrunkTracker IV scanner with Motorola Control Channel Only trunking and I-Call monitoring

Started Shipping June 2006. Now discontinued

Specifications

Physical

• Antenna Connector: BNC
• Compatible with BC-RH96 Remote Head
• DIN-E and ISO Vehicle Mountable sleeve included
• GPS Support for Location Based Scanning, location alerts, and crows-flight navigation
• LCD and Keypad Backlight
• Memory Back Up
• Multi-color display backlight
• Physical Dimensions: Width 7.33 Height 2.21 Depth 5.94
• PC Programming and Control
• Record Out - you can connect an output jack to a VOX controlled recorder or PC sound input to record the received audio.
• Reversible Display - Lets you reverse the display to mount unit upside down (and hear the speaker from the top)
• Signal Strength display
• Single-Handed Function Operation - Tap Function to access F+ key presses. 5 seconds after your last key press, the scanner reverts to non F+ entry (or press Function again to revert sooner).
• Six-Level Backlighting -Lets you set the display/keypad backlight to any of three brightness levels (or off) and two colors (red or green). Also lets you connect to your vehicle’s dimmer circuit to dim the scanner’s display with the vehicle’s dimmer control
• Soft Search Keys -Lets you program the keypad’s secondary functions to turn on/off specified search ranges.
• Strong signal attenuation
• Trunking Activity Indicators

Keys

• Group Quick Key range: 0-9
• System Quick Key range: 0-99
• 6 Quick Access Search keys

Technical

• Channels: 6000 maximum
• Custom Search — lets you program up to 10 search ranges
• Groups per system: 20 maximum
• Preprogrammed Service Search Bands: 13
• 6 Quick-Access Search Keys
• Scan Rate: 100 channels per second (conventional mode)
• 13 Service Searches - Public Safety, News, HAM Radio, Marine, Railroad, Air, CB Radio, FRS/GMRS, Racing, TV Broadcast, FM Broadcast, Military Air, and Special (Itinerant)
• Sites: 1000 maximum, 256 maximum per system
• Supported step sizes: 5, 6.25, 7.5, 8.33, 10, 12.5,15, 20, 25, 50 or 100 kHz
• Systems: 500 maximum
• Talkgroups per trunked system: 250 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 - 512 MHz
• 764 - 776 MHz
• 794 - 956 MHz
• 1240 - 1300 MHz

Power

• Voltage: 13.8 Volts d.c.
• Current: less than 750mA (max. rating of included wall wart)
• Power plug: 5.5mm outer diameter, 2.1mm inner diameter

Features

• Ability to flag a channel as Digital, Analog, or All
• 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
• Adjustable (0-5 sec) scan delay
• Analog and Digital AGC
• APCO25 Digital Audio decoding
• Broadcast Screen while searching (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
• Data Skip
• DCS/CTCSS Rapid Decode
• Duplicate Channel Alert
• EDACS ESK support (requires firmware 3.0 or newer)
• 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.
• Location Based Scanning
• Multi-Site support
• Quick Recall – quickly navigates to a specific Channel by choosing the System, Group, and Channel.
• Quick Search
• Priority Scan
• P25 audio decode level adjustment
• Repeater Reverse
• Search with Scan for Service and Custom Searches with assigned Quick Keys
• Startup Configuration
• Temporary System, Site, Group, Channel, and Location Lockout
• Uniden Digital AGC Tweak Procedures
• Upgradeable firmware
  • Can be updated to support Rebanding? YES
• Weather Operations
• Wired Cloning (Will only Clone to another BCD996T)

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
  • EDACS Narrowband Networked
  • EDACS SCAT - (version 3.0 firmware or later required)
  • EDACS ESK (not ProVoice)
  • LTR Standard
  • Project 25 Standard

• System Voices:
  • Analog
  • Analog and APCO-25 Common Air Interface
  • APCO-25 Common Air Interface Exclusive

Reviews

• Scan Cape Cod's Mini-Review
• Uniden BCD-996T First look

Related Pages

Wiki articles

• JPEG of discriminator tap point
• Uniden DMA FAQ

PC Programming and Control

• Clone996 backup & restore utility
• cat-streamer (Stream audio with site/group/channel tags)

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