Uniden BCT15 User Manual
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- Table of Contents
- The FCC Wants You to Know
- Introduction
- A Short User’s Guide to Assist the First-Time Scanner Enthusiast
- Understanding Scanning and the BCT15
- Understanding the Scanner’s Memory
- Understanding Quick Keys
- What is Scanning?
- What is Searching?
- What is CTCSS/DCS?
- Conventional Scanning
- Simplex Operation
- Repeater Operation
- What is Trunk Tracking?
- Trunked Scanning
- Startup Configuration
- Multi-Site Trunking
- Types of Trunking Systems
- Where To Get More Information
- Included With Your Scanner
- Setting Up Your Scanner
- Power Related Issues
- When you turn off the scanner using the power switch, the scanner remembers the last settings and mode. When you turn power back on, it resumes the previous mode.
- Base Station
- Setting Up an Audio Recording Device or Computer Recording
- Vehicle Installation
- Connecting an Optional Antenna
- Connecting an Earphone/Headphone
- Connecting an Extension Speaker
- Controls, Keys, and Functions
- A Look at The LCD Display
- Tones
- Operation
- Turning On the Scanner and Setting the Squelch
- Setting the Display Backlight
- Setting Alert Mute
- Entering Text Within A Menu Option
- Startup Key Operation
- Scanning Systems
- Selecting Systems to Scan
- Selecting System Channel Groups
- Locking/Unlocking Systems
- Locking/Unlocking Channels
- ID Scan/ID Search Mode
- Holding On a System
- Holding On a Channel
- Quickly Storing an ID During ID Search
- Quick-Storing Channels or Talk Group ID’s (TGID)
- Trunking Activity Indicators
- Toggling the Display Mode
- Introduction to BearTracker Operation
- Using the Menu
- Programming General Settings
- Setting and Using the Display Backlight
- Adjusting the Key Beep
- Setting the Audio AGC
- Setting the Display Orientation
- Adjusting the Display Contrast
- Setting the GPS Format
- Setting the Serial Port Speed
- Displaying Scanner Information
- Setting the BearTracker Options
- Initializing the Scanner’s Memory
- Connecting Your Scanner to a Personal Computer
- Wired Cloning
- Programming Your Scanner
- General Notes
- System Settings
- System Options
- Site Option Settings
- Channel Option Settings
- Programming Conventional Systems
- Programming Trunked Radio Systems
- Programming System Settings
- Editing the System Name
- Specifying the Correct System Type
- Editing the System Name
- Programming System Options
- Editing the System Quick Key
- Setting the Startup Key
- Setting the System Lockout
- Setting the System Hold Time
- Setting ID Scan/ID Search
- Setting Channel Delay Time
- Setting Data Skip
- Setting Location Information
- Setting the Fleet Map
- Setting the Status Bit
- Setting End Code Operation
- Setting I-Call Operation
- Setting the Emergency Alert Option
- Assigning a Conventional System to a State
- Programming Sites
- Setting the Site Name
- Setting the Site Quick Key
- Setting the Site Startup Key
- Setting Site Frequencies
- Setting Site Modulation
- Setting Site Attenuation
- Setting Site Lockout
- Setting Site Hold Time
- Editing the Band Plan
- Setting Control-Channel Only Mode
- Setting Site Location Information
- Assigning a Trunked System to A State
- Programming Channel Groups
- Programming Channels
- Setting Channel Record
- Searching and Storing
- Using the Close Call Feature
- Search and Close Call Options
- Managing Locked-Out Frequencies
- Unlocking All Frequencies
- Reviewing Locked Out Frequencies
- Searching for Subaudible Tones
- Screening Out Broadcast Sources
- Finding Repeater Output Frequencies
- Setting the Maximum Auto Store Value
- Setting the Modulation Type
- Setting Attenuation
- Setting Data Skip
- Setting the Delay Time
- Setting the Search Frequency Step
- Setting Record
- Priority Scan
- Using Weather Alert (SAME)
- Fire Tone-Out Introduction
- Using the BCT15 with a GPS
- Device Compatibility
- Connecting Your Scanner to a GPS Device
- Initial Scanner/GPS Operation
- Location-Based (GPS) Scanning
- Another Example of Multiple Site Creation
- Non-Radio Location Based GPS Features
- Setting the Options
- Deleting a Location
- For Dangerous Xing, and Dangerous Road Only
- GPS Display Mode
- GPS Review Location Mode
- Care and Maintenance
- Troubleshooting
- Specifications
- Reference
- Index
- One-Year Limited Warranty
- Precautions
- BCT15 Quick Start Guide