Uniden Bearcat UBCD3600XLT Digital & Analogue Radio Scanner

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Scans APCO 25 Phase 1 and Phase 2, DMR, Motorola, EDACS, EDACS ProVoice, LTR trunked systems. As well as conventional analog and P25 digital channels. The 3500XLT is not particularly user friendly for inputting data, requiring constant turning of the selector knob to find alpha numerics. The easiest way is to take advantage of the ability to connect to your PC or Mac. Get a connection cable. Mine came with a serial port connector, so I had to add a serial/USB adaptor. The Step size will depend on the scanner and some can scan through a list of frequencies using the following steps:- 5, 6.25, 8.33, 10, 12.5, 15, 20, 25, 50, 100kHz. Using the correct Step size will mean that you don't miss any frequencies. Recently the spacing between airband frequencies has been reduced from 25KHz spacing to 8.33KHz spacing so as to increase the number of frequencies available. Therefore your airband scanner should have a step size of 8.33KHz.

Also (not getting at you here) I love how people expect absolutely everyone to be on FarceBook. I've resisted it for this long so I can't see me being on that group anytime soon, ah well... With a GPS receiver, for precise system selection and continuing reselection when you travel. The scanner can automatically avoid and unavoid Systems and Departments based on your current location.Independent Alert Tone Volume – lets you set the volume level of the following tones: Key Beep, Emergency Alert, Channel Alert, and Close Call Alert. nacl1 wrote:The 3500XLT is not particularly user friendly for inputting data, requiring constant turning of the selector knob to find alpha numerics. The easiest way is to take advantage of the ability to connect to your PC or Mac. Get a connection cable. Mine came with a serial port connector, so I had to add a serial/USB adaptor. The official UBC3500XLT Manual can be a bit difficult to understand, however there is another 'easier to understand' manual online. The links to both these manuals are below:

Red Dragon wrote:I'm told the 3600XLT is "over complex", and basically looks to have all the bells and whistles, where you can programme the frequencies onto a memory card (not sure what type) and insert it into the scanner. Changes the intermediate frequency used for a selected channel to avoid image and other mixer-product interference.

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The Scanner's memory is used to store your frequencies which are usually arranged into Banks and Channels. A Bank consists of a group of Channels and you can program a frequency into a Channel. The idea is that you could fill a Bank with specific frequencies for a particular airshow and just scan the Channels in that Bank. You could use other Banks to store Display Teams and/or Common Display Frequencies (used at many airshows). This helps to organise all the frequencies that you want to store on the scanner. Note that all scanners work slightly differently and you should always consult the manual for your particular model. With this scanner you can program in your frequencies by connecting the scanner to a computer. Below is a freeware program which works with several Uniden scanners including the Bearcat UBC3500XLT. The software runs on Windows 2000, XP, Vista & Windows 7: I use DSD+ to decode the control channel data to see what channel numbers it sends the calls to and then try and find that voice channels frequency by using another analog scanner to listen which frequency gets active with DMR signalling, and enter the channel number divided by 2 in the scanner. A scanner usually lets you set either AM (Amplitude Modulation) or FM (Frequency Modulation). The scanner may also have NFM (Narrow FM) and WFM (Wide FM) but for listening to aircraft transmissions you should only use the AM mode.

Control Channel Only Scanning – With Motorola trunking frequencies, you do not have to program voice channel frequencies.The UBC3500XLT has a decent screen and a keypad as well as many different features such as 'Close Call' which will detect nearby signals. With all of these features it can be a little complicated to use, but it is well worth the effort to learn how to use this excellent scanner.

Allows you to organize your Systems into Favorites Lists. The scanner will scan multiple Favorites Lists and Full Database at the same time. For example if you're a mil airband listener you can setup a group profile to include you favourote airfields, control frequencies, JTAC etc. When you want to You can program the scanner to alert when you receive, a Channel or Unit ID, a Close Call hit, an ID is transmitted with an Emergency Alert, or a Tone-out hit. For each alert in the scanner, you can select from 9 different tone patterns, 15 volume settings, 7 colors (white, blue, red, yellow, magenta, green, cyan), and 2 flash patterns.

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When using a scanner you can either use the 'Search' mode where it searches through a range of frequencies until it stops when it finds a transmission for you to listen to, or use the 'Scan' mode where you store specific frequencies into the scanner and it will just scan through these frequencies until it finds a transmission. I guess the other option is to look for a 2nd hand 3500XLT, or as you say the 125XLT. I haven't really looked at one of those before... This sensitive hand-held scanner comes complete with an antenna, rechargeable batteries and an AC adaptor. The frequency range is 25-1300MHz (with gaps) and has a maximum of 2,500 (typically 1,600) channels. See specification below. Searches a range of frequencies to find unknown radio traffic and automatically records audio from and logs new channels for later review. Lets you set how far out from your current location the scanner will search for channels in Favorites Lists.