[Scan-DC] Problems Monitoring Montgomery TRS w/ BC-796

[Matt]

Doug,


I noticed this on my Pro-96 earlier this week. Someone on the list mentioned it may have been due to some radio shop problems.


Matt



-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Kitchener <oldsdoug at hotmail.com>
To: scan-dc <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sat, Jan 14, 2012 6:44 pm
Subject: [Scan-DC] Problems Monitoring Montgomery TRS w/ BC-796



All,

Recently (last 10 days or so) I've noticed problems when monitoring Montgomery 
County on my Uniden BC-796 (note that this is a first-generation 800 MHz digital 
trunking scanner).  If it's locked on a particular talkgroup, am picking up a 
lot of static, sounds like squelch is open.  Also, am picking up stray 
transmissions from different talkgroups other than the one that the radio is 
locked on.

Questions:

1.  Could this possibly be due to this rebanding / narrow-banding business?  Or 
is Montgomery just having problems?  (No problems noted when I use my newer 
Radio Shack / GRE PRO-197).  I admit to being 'way behind on that and basically 
have no idea what's going on with it, who's done it, who has yet to do it, when 
the deadline is, whether or not there's more than one thing going on, etc. - 
will have to get busy and read up on it.

2.  I've never done any firmware upgrades to this radio (well, maybe one very 
early on, I can't remember any more - am checking that out now, but could that 
also have something to do with this?

There seems to be something that needs to be done in order to be able to enter a 
custom bandplan that has to do with rebanding - 

http://info.uniden.com/twiki/bin/view/UnidenMan4/BC796DFirmwareUpdate

If I understand this correctly, first "BC_VUP v2.0.0.7" should be installed; 
then "BC796D_V3_60.scn" - has anyone else done this / had to do this?  Any 
thoughts, questions, comments, pointers?

Thanks in advance... as I mentioned, I'm digging into this, and will post 
whatever I find, whenever I find it out, but would appreciate any input, esp 
from other folks who are using the same radio and / or may have noticed the same 
things.

Regards,

Doug
  		 	   		  
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