BCD996XT - Uniden's latest high tier mobile radio scanner. Features include up to 25000 channels (INCLUDING alpha tags), dynamic memory (ala BC246T/BCD396T/Etc.), APCO P-25 digital, Multi-site Trunktracker IV technology (Motorola, M/A-Com EDACS, and LTR), Close Call nearfield frequency counter/receiver, CTCSS/CDCSS decoding, NOAA SAME weather alert, PC Programming / Control, GPS control, and Fire Tone Out (FTO) NOW WITH DECODE abilities, and a Multi-Color backlight that can be programmer per channel, so your PD channels can use BLUE, FD uses RED, EMS Green, Etc.
Latest firmware can be found here (currently 1.07.03 released 3/2015):
http://info.uniden.com/twiki/bin/view/UnidenMan4/BCD996XTFirmwareUpdate
Installation Steps
Here is what you need to do to apply the 1.07.03 update.- Download the latest version of BC_VUP3 (the firmware update tool) by clicking BC_VUP_V3_02_01.zip.
- Unzip the files you downloaded in Step 1 to your desktop. Then run setup.exe to install the firmware updater. (If you previously installed a version of BC_VUP, be sure you delete the old install files before reinstalling. These files are in a "BCSS" directory.)
- Run the BC_VUP3 application you installed in Step 2. Follow all on-screen instructions, selecting the BCD996XT to update and the V1_07_03 version.
UNIDEN BCD996XT FIRMWARE UPDATE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxWyioST0mA
Uniden BCD996XT Firmware Revision Notes 1.07.03
BCD996XT Firmware
Uniden/Bearcat BC-D996XT Digital APCO 25 Scanner
Uniden BCD996XT butel.nl
http://www.butel.nl/download_us.html
BCD396XT / BCD996XT Firmware Update Released
http://forums.radioreference.com/uniden-thread-archives/234243-bcd396xt-bcd996xt-firmware-update-released.html
Uniden BCD996XT Firmware Revision Notes 1.07.03
http://info.uniden.com/UnidenMan4/BCD996XTFirmwareUpdate
Uniden BCD396XT Firmware Revision Notes 1.11.01
http://info.uniden.com/UnidenMan4/BCD396XTFirmwareUpdate
Uniden BCD996XT Firmware Update
http://info.uniden.com/twiki/pub/publish/BCD996XTFirmwareUpdate.html
Key words for those who mis-spell the model number:
BC996XD, BC996XT, BC996, Bearcat, 996, 996D, 996XT
