BCD160DN/BCD260DN Programmer Screen at a Glance

Summary: An orientation to the BCD160DN/BCD260DN Programmer window – what’s on screen, and where the rest of this guide covers each part.

Before You See This Screen

This window only opens for a profile that already exists and has Enable Programming ticked. If you haven’t set one up yet:

1. Open Connect Settings.
2. Create (or select) a profile with Scanner Type set to BCD160DN or BCD260DN, and choose the correct COM port.
3. Tick Enable Programming for that profile.
4. Open Programmer, select that profile from the list, and click Open Editor – this brings you to the screen described below.

Squawker PC treats the BCD160DN and BCD260DN identically – same capacity, same fields, same workflow throughout this guide, so there’s no need to pick between them beyond selecting the right one in Connect Settings.

The Screen Itself

The window is laid out the same way as Squawker PC’s other bank-based scanner guides, in five clear sections:

• Bank tabs (across the top) – ten tabs, one per bank (Bank 1 through 9, then Bank 0), each holding up to 100 channels – double the UBC125XLT/C’s 50 per bank. Click a tab to switch which bank you’re viewing and editing.
• Channel grid (the main area) – a much wider table than UBC125XLT/C’s: alongside CH, Frequency, Name, Mode, Delay and L/O, you’ll also find Audio, Tone, Tone Lockout, Digital, Slot, Priority, ATT, Record, Alert Tone, Alert Level, Colour, LED and Digital Wait – the extra columns this model supports for digital reception. See Editing, Sorting & Deleting Channels for what each one does.
• Scanner Actions – Read from Scanner and Send to Scanner. See Reading, Backing Up & Restoring and Writing to Your Scanner.
• Bank Actions – the Data source dropdown and Program Bank button, Clear Bank, and the Quick Fill row with its own Clear All Banks button. See Filling a Bank and Quick Fill.
• Backup and Restore – create a backup on demand, restore a previous one, delete old backups, or open the backup folder directly. See Reading, Backing Up & Restoring.