Uniden Bc246t Trunk Tracker Scanner Owners Manual

BC246T
OWNER’S
MANUAL
OWNER’S MANUAL
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Precautions
PrecautionsBefore you use this scanner, please read and observe the 
following.
  IMPORTANT!
This scanning radio has been manufactured so that it will 
not tune to the radio frequencies assigned by the FCC for 
cellular telephone usage. The Electronic Communications 
Privacy Act of 1986, as amended, makes it a federal 
crime to intentionally intercept cellular or cordless 
telephone transmissions or to market this radio when 
altered to receive them. The installation, possession, or 
use of...

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Precautions   
WARNING!
 
Uniden does not represent this unit to be waterproof. 
To reduce the risk of fire or electrical shock, do not 
expose this unit to rain or moisture. 
Motorola
®, SMARTNET®, PL®, Private Line®, DPL®, 
Digital Private Line
®, and PRIVACY PLUS® are 
registered trademarks of Motorola, Inc.
LT R
® is a registered trademark of E.F. Johnson Co.
EDACS
® is a registered trademark of M/A-COM 
Private Radio Systems, Inc.
Uniden
® and Bearcat® are registered trademarks of 
Uniden America...

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Contents
ContentsThe FCC Wants You to Know ............................................................ 8
Scanning Legally  ..............................................................................  8
Introduction .......................................................................................  10
Feature Highlights ............................................................................ 12
About This Manual .......................................................................... 16...

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Contents
Locking/Unlocking Channels ..........................................................  43
ID Scan/ID Search Mode ................................................................  44
Temporarily Holding On a System ..................................................  44
Holding On a Channel  ...................................................................  44
Quickly Storing an ID During ID Search  ........................................  44
Quick-Storing Channels or Talk Group ID’s...

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Editing the Fleet Map (Motorola Systems Only)   ........................ 67
Setting the Motorola Status Bit (Motorola Systems Only) ...........  67
Setting the End Code Operation (Motorola Systems Only) ......... 68
Setting I-Call (Motorola and EDACS Systems Only)   .................  68
Setting Emergency Alert (Motorola & EDACS Systems Only)  .... 69
Setting the EDACS ID Format (EDACS Systems Only)  .............  69
Setting Control-Channel Only (Motorola Systems Only)  ............ 70...

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Setting Data Skip  ...........................................................................  92
Setting the Delay Time  ..................................................................  92
Setting the Search Frequency Step  ...............................................  93
Using Weather Alert (SAME) ...........................................................  94
Searching For a Weather Broadcast  .............................................  94
Turning Weather Alert On/Off...

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The FCC Wants You to Know The FCC Wants You to Know
This scanner has been tested and found to comply with 
the limits for a scanning receiver, pursuant to Part 15 of 
the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide 
reasonable protection against harmful interference in a 
residential installation. This scanner generates, uses, and 
can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed 
and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause 
harmful interference to radio communications.
However,...

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The FCC Wants You to Know
According to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act 
(ECPA), you are subject to fines and possible 
imprisonment for intentionally listening to, using, or 
divulging the contents of such a conversation unless you 
have the consent of a party to the conversation (unless 
such activity is otherwise illegal). This scanner has been 
designed to prevent the reception of cellular telephone 
transmissions and the decoding of scrambled 
transmissions. This is done to comply with...

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Introduction
IntroductionYour BC246T scanner is a state-of-the-art scanner radio 
with TrunkTracking™ and automatic scanning 
capabilities. You can store frequencies such as police,
fire/emergency, marine, air, amateur, and other 
communications into the scanner. You can carry it with 
you wherever you go, use it at home as a base unit, or 
install it in your vehicle as a mobile unit. 
You can use the scanner’s scroll control to quickly select 
channels and frequencies, and you can automatically...