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  • The BCD996T & BCT15 scanners have a TGID Limit of 250 TGIDs per trunk system. The BC246T/BR330T/BCD396T scanner have a 200 TGID limit. For the BCD396XT, the limit is 500 TGIDs. FreeSCAN will store more than this number in memory, however the scanner will only take a limited number during upload.
  • FreeSCAN supports the BCD996T/BCT15/BCD396XT/BC346XT feature of having multiple trunk sites in one system. This feature is not supported in the 246/330/396T. Starting with version 0.8, when you upload a multisite system to single-site scanner, FreeSCAN will create a system in the scanner for every site in the system being uploaded. TGID groups will be duplicated across every system in the scanner. Use this feature with caution because you can quickly run out of scanner memory.
  • FreeSCAN will not allow you to upload a fully digital P25 system to an analog scanner since these scanners have no chance of being able to track these systems.
  • When you bring up the download window, it will preserve the system names of previous detected systems. If you have made any changes whatsoever to your scanner's programming since last bringing up this list, you should reclick on Queue System List before downloading. This is because the system index IDs will shift around inside the scanner's memory when you make changes, and if FreeSCAN doesn't get an updates list then it will not be able to download the systems.
  • The new BCD396XT has introduced a new system type, P25 Standard. In older digital scanner this was known as Motorola Type II / P25 and is considered a different system type. Prior to version 0.8E, uploading an unsupported system (such as a Type II P25 to a 396XT) would result in that system being untrackable. However, 0.8E and above will change the system types for you to be compatible with your scanner. This allows you to, for example, download from a 996T and upload directly to a 396XT.
  • Speaking of transferring between different scanner, the user should be aware of GPS differences. The 15 & 996T track GPS either by conventional system, or by trunk site. On the XT scanners, GPS is tracked by conventional group. As a result, transferring in between the two scanners for conventional systems will mean GPS settings will be lost unless the user edits the correct settings in prior to uploading.

In addition, the XT supports GPS by TGID group, unlike the 15/996T. Uploading from an XT to a 15/996T would therefore cause this information to not be retained by the scanner.

  • A bug has been identified in version .8E where the correct system type is not always set when importing from the RadioReference web service. Be sure to validate the correct system type before uploading to your scanner.
  • In order to support the many new features in the new scanners (346XT and 396XT), the file format has been changed in .7B. You can still load all of your old files, however, files saved with this version cannot be opened with previous versions.


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