BCD996XT

Bearcat BCD996XT digital Trunktracker IV

The BCD996XT Uniden's APCO-25 Capable desktop Trunktracker scanner with Dynamic Memory Architecture. This scanner became available to the market in July, 2009. It is an upgrade to the BCD996T. (The BCD996P2 is an upgrade to the BCD996XT.). This is a TrunkTracker IV with Motorola Control Channel Only trunking and I-Call monitoring. It has since been 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
• Multi-color display backlight
• 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
• Strong signal attenuation
• 16 character text tagging for each system, site, group, channel, talkgroup, search range, location, Tone-out, and SAME group
• 12 Service Searches - Public Safety, News, HAM Radio, Marine, Railroad, Air, CB Radio, FRS/GMRS, Racing, FM Broadcast, Military Air, and Special (Itinerant)

Keys

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

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
• 3 (vs. 6) Quick-Access Search Keys
• Preprogrammed Service Search Bands: 12
• Scan Rate: 100 channels per second (conventional mode)
• Search Rate: 300 steps per second (on 5 kHz steps)
• Supported step sizes: 5, 6.25, 7.5, 8.33, 10, 12.5,15, 20, 25, 50 or 100 kHz
• System Number Tagging: 999
• Systems: 500 maximum
• Talkgroups per trunked system: 500 maximum
• 500 (250 Temporary + 250 Permanent) Search Lockouts

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

FM Bandwidths

• NFM: ~7.5 kHz deviation
• FM ~15 kHz deviation
• FMB: ~75 kHz deviation
• WFM: >100 kHz deviation

Power Requirements

• Power requirements: AC Adapter (13.8V DC 750mA Regulated) (AD-1009 or equivalent).
• DC:11V to 16.6V(Ext.DC Power Jack or DC Power Jack)
• 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
• 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
• Custom Search — lets you program up to 10 search ranges
• 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 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 BCD996XT)

Improvements over the BCD996T

• Adjustable Band defaults
• Adjustable Priority check interval
• Band Scope mode
• Channel Alert
• Control Channel Data Output
• Display the Unit IDs (UID) found on trunk systems. Firmware 1.04.00 or newer is required.
• EDACS ESK support
• Fire Tone Out Search - built-in frequency counter displays the received tones.
• Individual channel volume offset
• Intermediate Frequency Exchange - changes the IF used for a selected frequency to help avoid image and other mixer-product interference on a frequency.
• Key Lock - lets you hand the scanner to a novice user and prevent programming from being modified.
• 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 Conventional channels that include NAC and TGID user differentiation (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
  • EDACS Narrowband Networked
  • EDACS SCAT
  • 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

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 BCD996XT:

SQK System

• 21 Alaska ALMR
• 22 Arkansas AWIN
• 23 Colorado DTRS
• 24 Connecticut State
• 25 Delaware
• 26 Georgia GEWIN
• 27 Idaho IIMARS
• 28 Illinois StarCom21
• 29 Indiana SAFE-T
• 30 Kansas KSICS
• 31 Louisiana LATIE
• 32 Mass State Sys [Analog]
• 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

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