Frisco, Texas Testing Trunked P25 system, BCD996XT receiver and Freescan MVI3479

Vid capture of the city of Frisco Texas doing testing on their new APCO P25 (Project 25) trunked system.

The scanner is a Uniden Bearcat TrunkTracker IV model BCD996XT.

In the foreground briefly can also be heard the State Of Texas DPS on their P25 radio system on VHF-Hi-band (about 155.445 MHz.).

A Pro-2006 was scanning the inactive Frisco P25 voice assignment channels, and the 'buzzing' of the P25 voice comms can be heard just prior to demodulated voice appearing on the BCD996XT scanner.

A copy of FreeSCAN was running on the PC to capture Talk Group IDs (TGIDs) coming across the P25 system.

Update: 9-23-2010: It should be noted that last week, beginning Monday, all Frisco ops (PD and Fire plus bldg main. ops) seem to be on their new P25 radio system.

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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Frisco Texas
• BCD996XT
• P25 Trunked
• APCO P25
• Digital radios

[RICKK98]

How did you program the scanner did you used a software using the pc and I have a bct15x u thing I will work on the p25 frequencies

[uploadJ]

@RICKK98

I put them in by hand - it's not that hard to do ... I used Freescan just to see more data and maybe log some activity.

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[FamousTVvoice]

The guy with the accent along with the vocode effect of P25 makes it hard to understand what he's saying. Otherwise when the signal is clear it sounds fine. Who was doing the test here?

[uploadJ]

@FamousTVvoice -

The city of Frisco in conjunction with EADS ... where EADS has a presence at

6801 Gaylord Parkway in Frisco Texas.

More info Google:

EADS North America radios

BTW, it looks like Frisco decided to go with Motorola Project25 radios, and EADS NA may be moving to Richardson where they have made an offer to that city of a 'free' radio system ... the last company to do that was Ericsson who 'gifted' them a GE EDACS system back in the 1990s ...

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[ssdsam2]

the fcc hahaha the fcc. i love it

[shobudsteeler]

@RICKK98 Rick, you asked about the Bct15x and p25. No, the Bct15x, while a really nice analog scanner, won't do p25 digital. For that, you'd need the 996 or 996xt.

[uploadJ]

@thewebmogul -

Looking at my records is looks like I bought these from scanner master DOT com back in April.

The programming on these radios is a little complicated, but I am impressed with the sensitivity and also the low LO (Local Oscillator) phase noise (usually that is a tough one in consumer grade gear to 'get right').

What have you seen these going for? I think I paid what they are presently asking on the scanner mater website ... right around 495 US dollars ...

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[thewebmogul]

@uploadJ Ok that's great how much did you purchase it for and where did you purchase it at? also you have any problems using the scanner?

[uploadJ]

@thewebmogul

Bought the radio this year, about April '10 time frame. I did a little searching on the internet for best price - and then actually bought two of them ...

[thewebmogul]

How old is the model BCD996XT? is this a 2009 or 2010 model? also how much did you get it for?

[tryton1000]

Very cool! Thanks for the vid