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Precautions Before you use this scanner, please read and observe the following. IMPORTANT! This scanning radio has been manufactured so that it will not tune to the radio frequencies assigned by the FCC for cellular telephone usage. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, as amended, makes it a federal crime to intentionally intercept cellular or cordless telephone transmissions or to market this radio when altered to receive them. The installation, possession, or use of this sca
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® LTR is a registered trademark of E.F. Johnson Co. ® EDACS is a registered trademark of M/A-COM Private Radio Systems Inc. ® ® Uniden and Bearcat are registered trademarks of Uniden America Corporation. Trunk Tracker™, Trunk Tracking™, and Close Call™ are proprietary trademarks of Uniden America Corporation. Other trademarks used throughout this manual are the property of their respective holders. Power Related Issues Important: To prevent memory from being corrupted, do not unplug the AC ad
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Table of Contents Precautions........................................................................................................................................ 2 Power Related Issues ................................................................................................................... 3 Table of Contents ............................................................................................................................. 4 The FCC Wants You To Know .....................
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Setting Up an Audio Recording Device or Computer Recording ................................................... 33 Vehicle Installation ......................................................................................................................... 33 Mounting Using the Bracket ........................................................................................................ 33 Mounting Using the DIN-E Sleeve .........................................................................
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Setting the Serial Port Speed ........................................................................................................ 58 Displaying Scanner Information ..................................................................................................... 59 Viewing Memory Used ................................................................................................................ 59 Viewing the Firmware Version and Electronic Serial Number ................................
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Assigning a Search Range to a Search Key ................................................................................. 98 Saving a Found Channel (Quick Save) ......................................................................................... 99 Auto Search and Store .................................................................................................................. 99 Selecting a System to use for Storing ...................................................................
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GPS Review Location Mode ........................................................................................................ 126 Care and Maintenance ................................................................................................................. 128 General Use ................................................................................................................................. 128 Location ........................................................................
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The FCC Wants You To Know This scanner has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a scanning receiver, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This scanner generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. There is no guarantee that in
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up these transmissions. Do not open your scanner’s case to make any modifications that could allow it to pick up transmissions that are illegal to monitor. Modifying or tampering with your scanner’s internal components or using it in a way other than as described in this manual could invalidate your warranty and void your FCC authorization to operate it. In some areas, mobile and/or portable use of this scanner is unlawful or requires a permit. Check the laws in your area. It is also illeg
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Introduction Your BCD996T scanner is a state-of-the-art scanner radio with Trunk Tracker IV™ and automatic scanning capabilities. You can store in the dynamic memory conventional frequencies such as police, fire/emergency, marine, air, amateur, and other communications. You can store and scan services that use Trunked Radio Systems and so much more. You can use the scanner’s Scroll Control to quickly select channels and frequencies, and you can automatically program channels in a system us
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Frequency (MHz) Lower Edge Upper Edge Modulation Step (kHz) 806.0000 823.9875 NFM 12.5 849.0125 868.9875 NFM 12.5 894.0125 956.0000 NFM 12.5 1240.0000 1300.0000 NFM 25.0 Note: The scanner’s frequency coverage is not continuous and does not include the cellular telephone or UHF TV bands. Feature Highlights General Close Call™ RF Capture Technology — Instantly detects and tunes to nearby transmissions with no additional programming. See “Using the Close Call Feature” on Page 101 for more inform
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Channel Lockout — You can lock out any system, group, frequency, or channel while scanning. If you lock out a system or group, any channels belonging to that system or group are also locked out. Frequency Lockout — You can lock out up to 500 frequencies (250 permanently locked out + 250 temporarily locked out). The scanner skips locked-out frequencies while using the Close Call™ feature or while searching. CTCSS and DCS Squelch Modes — Prevent interference from stations not using the tone c
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Automatic Channel Step — Accepts frequencies on any valid channel step, even if it does not fall within the band plan’s default step. Frequency Step — Lets you select a frequency step (5, 6.25, 7.5, 8.33, 10, 12.5,15, 20, 25, 50 or 100 kHz) for manual mode and search mode. Text Tagging — You can name each system, group, channel, talk group ID, custom search range, and SAME group, using up to 16 characters per name. Data Skip — Allows your scanner to skip unwanted data transmissions and redu
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Control Channel Only Scanning — If the scanner is set to scan a Motorola system, you can set it so it scans using only control channel data. You do not have to program voice channel frequencies into memory in this mode as long as all possible control channels are programmed. Adaptive Digital Threshold — Automatically sets the digital decode threshold for APCO 25 systems. GPS Location Based Scanning — If you connect a GPS unit to the scanner it can automatically enable and disable systems ba
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Quick Search — Lets you search from the currently-tuned frequency if you are searching a conventional system. Auto Store Frequency AutoStore — Automatically stores all active frequencies into the selected conventional system. Talk Group ID AutoStore — Automatically stores all new talk group ID’s into a channel group you select. Priority Priority Scan — Priority channels let you keep track of activity on your most important conventional channel(s) while monitoring transmissions on other ch
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Search Lockout Limits Temporary L/O Permanent L/O Frequencies Skipped Review Frequencies Frequencies 500 250 250 Search Mode Menu Mode Close Call Mode About This Manual The screen displays used in this manual are representations of what might appear when you use your scanner. Since what you see depends on the frequencies and user IDs for your area and the settings you select, you might notice some differences between what is in this manual and what appears on your scanner. To get the most f
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How the Scanner’s Controls Are Represented in This Manual To help navigate the scanner’s menus, the steps shown in this manual show the displays you see and the keys you press or control you operate to get a desired result. We use a form of shorthand symbols to save space. The following example shows you how to use the scanner’s menu to edit an existing system name. It shows you the key to press in brackets [MENU] to select a menu option and the option you see on the LCD in Boldface Courier
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A Short User’s Guide to Assist the First-Time Scanner Enthusiast Welcome to the family of Uniden scanner users. You have just unpacked your Uniden BCD996T scanner. You are anxious to scan and hear something so you rotate the [VOL/POWER] control and wait a moment as the opening Message and Copyright screens confirm the model information. Then, if you live in a residential area, you probably hear nothing or very little. Why? The reason is simple. The programmable BCD996T does not instinctive
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2. Program the system based on the plan. Enclosed with the materials provided with your scanner is a reprinted article from Popular Communications, which, in clear, easy-to-understand language, tells you how to start the programming session. The article also includes a glossary of terms and other valuable data. Be sure to take time out to look it over before proceeding. To provide you with useful sized worksheets and instructions to complete them, we have established links at our company we
