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BCD996T

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Overview

Will be Uniden's latest Base/Mobile Digital Trunktracker scanner with Dynamic Memory and GPS Support.

Expected Ship Date is Spring 2006, and will probably retail for close to $500.00

Feature Summary

  • Memory Architecture
Dynamic allocation.
Construction:	
400 Systems, 6000 Channels* 
Maximum Systems: 400
Maximum Channel Groups per System: 20
Maximum Channels in a Trunked System: 200
Maximum Channels in a Conventional System: Limits of memory
  • Creation of Systems and Channel Groups use some channel slots, so the total number of channels could be less than 6000.
  • Search with Scan
  • Temporary Lockout
  • 99 System Quick Keys + 10 Group Quick Keys per System
  • Startup Configuration – lets you set systems to be automatically locked or unlocked during power-up.
  • Single-Handed Function Operation
  • Priority Scan
  • Priority Plus
  • Channel Alert
  • Alert Plus – keeps the scanner silent except during alert events (channel with programmed alert, weather alert, location alert, etc).
  • Dropout Delay
  • Attenuator
  • Repeater Reverse
  • Quick Recall – quickly navigates to a specific Channel by choosing the System, Group, and Channel.
  • Weather and SAME Alert
  • 10 Custom Search Ranges
  • Service Search – Public Safety, News, HAM Radio, Marine, Railroad, Air, CB Radio, FRS/GMRS, Racing, TV Broadcast, FM Broadcast, Special, Military Air
  • Tone Search – Rapidly searches for the CTCSS/DCS used during a transmission.
  • Fire Tone-Out
  • Frequency Autostore
  • ID Autostore
  • Quick Search

-panel keys.

  • 200 Search Lockouts
  • Alpha Tagging – For System, Group, Channel, Talkgroup ID, Custom Search Range and SAME Group. The scanner allows up to 16 characters for each name.
  • Duplicate Input Alert
  • Data Skip
  • Broadcast Screen – sets the scanner to ignore hits on Pager, FM, UHF TV, VHF TV, NOAA WX and custom band frequencies.
  • Trunk Tracking – supports the following systems:
  • Motorola: Type I 800 / Type II 800, 900, UHF, VHF, P25
  • EDACS: WIDE, NARROW, SCAT
  • LTR
  • APCO Project 25 Decoder – lets you listen to digitalized voice data that is compliant with the APCO Project25 standard.
  • APCO Auto Adjust Threshold
  • Multi-Site Trunking – allows independent system sites to share common talk group channel lists.
  • Control Channel Only mode
  • Battery Save
  • Two-Color LCD and Keypad Backlight – select red or green backlighting.
  • Independent Alert Tone Volume – lets you set the volume level of the following tones: Key Beep, Emergency Alert, Channel Alert, Close Call Alert and Battery Low Alert.
  • Key Lock
  • Close Call RF Capture
  • Close Call Do-Not-Disturb – sets Close Call RF Capture to operate only when no transmission is being received.
  • Close Call Temporary Store – automatically saves and scans the last 10 Close Call hits.
  • PC Control
  • Wired Cloning
  • On-Air Programming
  • Scan Speed – 100 CH/Sec. in Scan Mode (max)
  • Search Speed / Turbo Search – 100 Steps/Sec. in Search Mode (max) - except for 5 kHz step. 300 Steps/Sec. in Search Mode (max) - (Turbo Search) - for 5 kHz step
  • Memory Back Up
  • Trunking Activity Indicators
  • Audio AGC
  • Location-Based Scanning – Each system can include latitude, longitude, and range information and can be automatically enabled/disabled when a GPS is connected and the unit is within the defined range of the system.
  • Non-Radio Location-Based Features – the scanner can include location alerts (that sound alert tones when the unit approaches a defined latitude/longitude) and speed-trap alerts (that sound alert tones if the unit is traveling at > than a set speed limit while it is within a grid area).
  • GPS Display Mode – displays location and travel information based on the GPS input.

GPS Features

The scanner will not include a GPS Receiver, an add-on GPS receiver will be required. Users will be able to define a LAT/LONG centerpoint for any system (conventional or trunked) and a range (in miles) that specifies the boundaries in a square box specifying where to turn the system on/off.

Press Release

Uniden Announces Industry’s First GPS-Enabled Scanner

New Mobile Model Features Close Call™ Technology and APCO 25 Capability In a Desktop Design

Fort Worth, Texas, September 1, 2005 – Uniden America Corporation, a leading manufacturer of wireless consumer electronics, today announced a new mobile digital scanner, the Bearcat BCD996T. This model introduces the first-ever GPS-enabled scanner, allowing the product to automatically select nearby radio systems for scanning. The BCD996T also offers APCO 25 digital capability, allowing consumers to monitor the activities and signals of city and government service departments, and features advanced scanner technology in an in-dash or mobile mount design.

The GPS-enabled feature offered by the BCD996T provides automatic system selection, which permits the scanner to turn system reception on or off depending on the user’s location, and allows the user to define the scanner display to show location-based information.

In addition, when a GPS unit, not included with this scanner, is connected to the BCD996T, it will alert at areas of special interest, such as dangerous intersections, school zones, or general points of interest.

Featuring APCO 25 capability, Uniden’s BCD996T is poised to further enhance Uniden’s offerings to public safety and increase interoperability between agencies using different types of radio systems. Uniden’s BCD996T will not permit users to monitor sensitive, encrypted signals from national and local security services.

The Bearcat BCD996T also offers Close Call™ RF Capture Technology, Dynamic Memory Management, Fire Tone-Out, and Multi-site programming as well as 6,000 channels and a frequency range of 25 MHz to 1.3 GHz (excluding cellular and UHF TV frequencies). This new model is slated to hit retail shelves in spring 2006 and carries a MSRP of $849.99. “The BCD996T, the first GPS-