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What is XPAND?

April 26, 2017xpand

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What is XPAND?

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This is a feature of the BC245XLT which allows you to tailor the search and scan operations while tracking an EDACS system. It uses the natural heirarchy of the Agency-Fleet-Subfleet (AFS) numbering scheme to do this. Normally, users are uniquely identified by their full AFS ID. Such IDs are seen in search mode and can be programmed into a Scan List for scanning. But say you know that Agency 04 is programmed for all police units and that’s what you want to listen to exclusively. Normally, you’d have to find out what all the unique AFS IDs are for all the police users in this Agency. With XPAND, you simply program the AFS ID by just specifying the Agency. In this case, 04. The radio will now only track transmissions which have 04 as the agency and ignore all others (agencies 00-03 and 05-15). To further refine this “filtering”, you can specify the Agency and Fleet but leave the Subfleet unspecified.