Uniden BCT8 English Owners Manual - Page 10

Feature Highlights • Pre-programmed frequencies specific to each state (except Hawaii). • Pre-programmed Trunked and conventional Highway Patrol frequencies • Highway Patrol Priority Alert -Receive audible and visual alert when within three miles of many Highway Patrol/State units • Pre-programmed frequencies for the following categories: -Local Police and County Sheriffs -Fire and Emergency Medical Service -News Media -Weather (continuous NOAA weather and Canadian Coast Guard broadcasts) -CB Radio -Aircraft -Railroads -Marine Band -Department of Transportation • Trunk Tracking - Follow VHF High Band UHF 800MHz trunked public safety and public service systems just as if conventional two-way communications were used. • Multi-Track - Track more than one trunking system at a time. Scan conventional and trunked systems at the same time. • 250 Channels - Program one frequency into each channel. You must have at least one channel programmed to use the Scan mode. • 13 Bands - Includes 13 bands, with aircraft and 800 MHz. • 5 Banks - 5 banks with 50 channels each are useful for storing similar frequencies to maintain faster scanning cycles or for storing all the frequencies of a trunked system. • 25 MHz-956 MHz - Indicates the range of frequencies that can be searched within the bands of your scanner. Note: The frequency coverage is not continuous and excludes the cellelar telephone Band. • 5 Priority Channels - You can assign one priority channel in each bank. Assigning a priority channel allows you to track activity on your most important channel(s) while monitoring other channels for transmissions. You can also assign trunking priority talkgroups. • Data Skip - Allows your scanner to skip unwanted data transmissions and reduces birdies. • Direct Channel Access - Go directly to any channel without entering programming mode. • Turbo Search - Increases the search speed to 300 steps per second. This applies only to transmission bands with 5 kHz steps. • PC Programmable - Allows you to easily program all frequencies and Trunking Talk Groups into your BCT8 through Uniden BCT8 Scanning software running on your PC. - For more information on BCT8 SS Programming software visit our website at scanner.uniden.com. 6