BCT15

Uniden's analog-only Base/Mobile Trunktracker scanner with Dynamic Memory Architecture and GPS Support. Shipping started Summer 2006. This is a TrunkTracker III with Motorola Control Channel Only trunking and I-Call monitoring

General Specifications

Physical

• BNC antenna connector
• Compatible with BC-RH96 Remote Head
• DIN-E and ISO Vehicle Mountable (optional)
• GPS Support for Location Based Scanning, location alerts, and crows-flight navigation
• LCD Backlight
• Memory Back Up
• 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).
• Strong signal attenuation
• 16 character text tagging for each system, site, group, channel, talkgroup, search range, location, Tone-out, and SAME group
• Three-Level Backlighting - Lets you set the display/keypad backlight to any of three brightness levels (or off). Also lets you connect to your vehicle’s dimmer circuit to dim the scanner’s display with the vehicle’s dimmer control.
• Trunking Activity Indicators

Keys

• Group Quick Key range: 0-9
• 3 Quick-Access Search Keys
• “Soft“ Search Keys -Let you program the keypad’s secondary functions to turn on/off specified search ranges.
• System Quick Key range: 0-99

Technical

• Channels: 2500 maximum
• Custom Search - lets you program up to 10 search ranges
• Groups per system: 20 maximum
• 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

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; Radio Shack size code "M"

Features

• Adjustable Hold (scan duration 0-255 sec) per system, custom or service search
• Adjustable (0-5 sec) scan delay
• Alert Mute - silences all alerts
• Alert Plus - silences the scanner except for channels/BearTracker warnings that have assigned alerts.
• AGC
• BearTracker
• Broadcast Screen ignores 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 1.06)
• 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 If you connect a GPS unit to the scanner it can automatically enable/disable systems based on the geographic information you provide.
• Multi-Site support
• Priority Scan
• Quick Recall – quickly navigates to a specific Channel by choosing the System, Group, and Channel.
• 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
• Upgradeadable firmware
  • Can be updated to support Rebanding? YES
• Weather Operations
• Wired Cloning

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
  • EDACS Standard (Wide)
  • EDACS Standard Networked
  • EDACS Narrowband (Narrow)
  • EDACS Narrowband Networked
  • EDACS SCAT
  • LTR Standard

• System Voices:
  • Analog

Related pages

• BCT-15 Owner's Manual
• BCT15 Discriminator tap point
  • NOTE: The BCD996 and BCT15 appear to share the same tap point location. Look at the center of the board, go right and down.
• BCT-15 Discriminator output modification description
• Uniden BCT-15 and BCT-15X Teardown & Other Data
• Uniden DMA FAQ

Reviews

• BCT15 Review by Safetyobc

PC Programming and Control

• Uniden DMA Software Support
• WM15 - BCT15 control via SmartPhone Bluetooth application

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• RadioReference Uniden Forum

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