BCD436HP/536HP Programming Systems & System Options

Summary: How to create a system and what the system settings and options do.

Creating a System

1. Menu, Manage Favorites, choose the list, then Review/Edit System.
2. Choose New System, then a type: P25 Trunk, P25 X2-TDMA, P25 One Frequency, Motorola, EDACS, LTR or Conventional.
3. At Confirm?, press E/yes.

Motorola or P25? Check the system type in the RadioReference database. Only systems tagged Project 25 Phase I or Phase 2 are P25. A system type containing “Motorola” should be programmed as Motorola even if some or all channels are digital.

System Settings

• Edit Name; Edit Unit IDs (Display Unit ID must be on to see them). For each unit ID: name, alert tone, level, light colour and pattern, and delete.
• Copy System – copies all sites, departments, channels and settings, including quick keys, into the current Favorites List (you name the copy).
• Edit System and Delete System.

System Options

Edit Sys Option (not all options appear for every type):

• Set System Quick Key (0-99 or none) and Set System Number Tag (0-99 or blank).
• Set Avoid – Stop Avoiding (default), Temporary Avoid, Permanent Avoid.
• Set Hold Time – 0-255 seconds (default 0). Each unavoided channel is still scanned once.
• ID Search – On searches all IDs in a trunked system; Off (default) scans only your programmed IDs. Not available with the database.
• Edit Fleet Map (Motorola Type I and II/I) – choose a size code 0-14 per block. Codes 12, 13 and 14 use more than one block: 12 only in blocks 0, 2, 4 or 6; 13 only in blocks 0 and 4; 14 only in block 0.
• Priority ID Scan (not P25 One Frequency; default Off).
• Set Status Bit (Motorola only) – Yes treats every received ID as unique; Ignore (default) rounds IDs down to the next multiple of 16.
• Set End Code (Motorola only) – Analog (default), Analog+Digital, or Ignore.
• Emergency Alert (Motorola/EDACS) – tone, level and light for IDs with the emergency flag; default Off.
• Review ID Avoids, Clear All ID Avoids.
• Set Audio AGC – analogue and digital separately, default Off.
• P25 NAC Option (P25 One Frequency) – Search (default) or Set P25 NAC.
• P25 Waiting Time (Conventional only) – default 400 ms, 0-1000. Gives the scanner time to decide if a channel is digital or analogue, avoiding false decodes. Affects only channels with Audio Type set to All; analogue audio loses the start of a transmission up to this time.
• P25 Threshold Mode (Conventional only) – Auto (default), Manual, Default.
• P25 Threshold Level (Conventional only) – 0-20, default 8.