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UBCD996T
Owner's Manual
OWNER'S MANUAL
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Precautions Before you use this scanner, please read and observe the following. EARPHONE WARNING! Be sure to use only a monaural earphone or 32 stereo headset. Use of an incorrect earphone or stereo headset might be potentially hazardous to your hearing. The output of the phone jack is monaural, but you will hear it in both headphones of a stereo headset. Set the volume to a comfortable audio level coming from the speaker before plugging in the monaural earphone or a stereo headset of the prope
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Power Related Issues Important: To prevent memory from being corrupted, do not unplug the AC adapter during the time the memory is accessed for programming or auto store. Notes: If when you connect the AC adapter the [VOL] /Power Switch is ON, the scanner may not power on. Should this occur, simply turn the control OFF, then ON again. If the scanner loses power (as when you turn off your car’s ignition with the scanner’s power switch on), it can lose some system settings such as display colo
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Table of Contents Precautions ...................................................................................................................................2 Power Related Issues ................................................................................................................3 Introduction .................................................................................................................................11 Feature Highlights ......................................
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Included With Your Scanner ......................................................................................................30 Setting Up Your Scanner ............................................................................................................31 Base Station ...............................................................................................................................31 Setting Up an Audio Recording Device or Computer Recording ...............................
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Setting the GPS Format .............................................................................................................57 Setting the Position Format ......................................................................................................57 Setting the Time Format ...........................................................................................................58 Setting the Time Zone ............................................................................
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Searching and Storing ................................................................................................................92 Service Search ...........................................................................................................................92 Quick Search ..............................................................................................................................93 Custom Search ..................................................................
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Care and Maintenance ..............................................................................................................125 General Use .............................................................................................................................125 Location ....................................................................................................................................125 Cleaning ......................................................................
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Introduction Your UBCD996T 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 using t
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Feature Highlights General Close Call™ RF Capture Technology — Lets the scanner detect and automatically tune to nearby radio transmissions. See “ Using the Close Call Feature” on Page100 for more information. Close Call Do-Not-Disturb — When set, the scanner makes periodic Close Call checks whenever the scanner is not receiving audio in another mode. This eliminates the annoying breaks in conversation while still allowing for Close Call functionality. Close Call Temporary Store — Temporarily sa
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Fire Tone-Out Standby — Lets you set the scanner to alert you if a two-tone sequential page is transmitted. You can set up to 10 settings (transmit frequency, tone frequencies) then select one for standby monitoring. Up to ten tone-outs on the same RF setting can be scanned at one time. Broadcast Screen — Sets the scanner to ignore Close Call™ or search hits on known broadcast frequencies including common pager frequencies. Custom Screen — Lets you input up to 10 frequency ranges that the scanne
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Memory Backup — If power is lost or disconnected, the scanner retains the frequencies you programmed in its memory. Temporary Lockout — Makes it easy to temporarily lock out a system, channel, or frequency. The lockout is cleared when you turn power off, then back on so you don’t have to remember to unlock the channels later. Startup Configuration — Lets you easily manage multiple configurations for your scanner. Single-Handed Function Control Operation — You can tap the Function/Scroll Control
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Distance to a POI, Direction to a POI, Time to a POI, Speed, Position, and more. Search Service Search — Lets you quickly select and search the scanner’s preprogrammed frequencies. Custom Search — Lets you program up to 10 custom search ranges. You can search any of these ranges simultaneously. CTCSS/DCS Search — Lets the scanner search for CTCSS or DCS tones or codes on any channel or during a search. The scanner can identify up to 50 CTCSS tones and 104 DCS codes. Quick Search — Lets you searc
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Memory Storage Limits * depending on the number of TGID in the system. 16
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Search Lockout Limits 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 from this manual, review the contents to become familiar with the basic functions available. Using the Scroll Control The Scroll Contro
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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 type
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A Short User’s Guide to Assist the First-Time Scanner Enthusiast and Glossary Welcome to the family of Uniden scanner users. You have just unpacked your Uniden UBCD996T 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 UBCD996T does not in
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be overwhelmed. Begin by choosing the Talkgroups of interest to you. Begin by transferring the data from the Radio Reference website to the worksheets you obtain from the Uniden website and from there, to the scanner. You can visit one of the Radio Reference forums and potentially learn of someone in your immediate area who has programmed the same model scanner in your area. Then, by using the Clone feature or by exchanging files that you each have transferred to a computer using the Uniden Adva
