[FedCom] Uniden Bearcat BC996T and Federal Monitoring

[Greg Brazil]

Well if you do all this monitoring, how about posting some frequencies. 
  After all, that's what fedcom is for.
Greg

J&D Schnoor wrote:

> 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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