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Ltr trunking, Understanding scanning – Uniden BCD396T User Manual

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Understanding Scanning

system, your BCD396T lets you assign wildcard ID’s
that let you, for example, use only one ID memory to
identify all units in either an agency or a fleet.

EDACS SCAT – EDACS SCAT (Single Channel

Autonomous Trunking) systems operate on a single

channel and alternate control data with analog voice

traffic. While your BCD396T cannot track ID’s in this

system, it can eliminate the control data so that all you
hear is the voice transmissions when you monitor this
type of system.

LTR Trunking

LTR (Logic Trunked Radio) systems are trunking

systems used primarily by business or private

communications service providers, such as taxicabs,
delivery trucks, and repair services. These systems
encode all control information as digital subaudible
data that accompanies each transmission, so there is
no separate control channel. Users on an LTR system
are assigned to specific talk groups, which are

identified by the radio as six digit numbers.

These numbers are in the form AHHUUU, where:

A = Area code (0 or 1)
H = Home repeater (01 through 20)
U = User ID (000 through 254)

When the scanner receives a transmission on a

channel set to the LTR mode, it first decodes the LTR
data included with the transmission. In the ID search
mode, the scanner stops on the transmission and

displays the talk group ID on the display. In the ID scan
mode, the scanner only stops on the transmission if
the LTR data matches a talk group ID that you have
stored in the talk group ID list and have not locked out.
LTR systems are frequently programmed so that each
radio has a unique user ID.