[FedCom] Uniden Bearcat BC996T and Federal Monitoring
J&D Schnoor
jimdianes at frontiernet.net
Sat Aug 5 12:32:07 EDT 2006
I recently purchased a Uniden Bearcat BC996T and I have been experimenting
with it for federal monitoring. I have been running it under the Butel
ARC996PRO. I have configured some sessions where I program frequencies as
P25 conventional only and then check back on the history log to see what
frequencies were active. This has worked pretty well for me. A couple of
questions though:
-I understand the NEW federal UHF band plan is 406-420 with repeater inputs
9 mHz higher than the repeater output. Is that band completely switched
over yet or are we in a transition period? Also, once this happens, does
this mean that 411-414.9875 mHz are simplex only?
-I have noticed some federal frequencies that are BOTH analog AND P25. I
seem to have noticed a significant number of analog PL hits on 67.0 hZ when
some of those are operating with analog modulation. Does anybody know if
there is any signifigance to this? I rarely would get 67.0 hZ used on
almost anything I have monitored in the past.
-Is there any sort of band plan for 162-174 or can just about any frequency
be either an input or output on a repeater?
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