Quickstart

Quickstart

From a clean install to your first saved edit in five steps.

1. Load the SD card

1. Put the BearTracker 885's SD card in your PC (via the scanner's USB mode or a card reader).
2. Click Browse in the top-left and pick the card's BCDx36HP folder (not the card root - the folder that contains hpdb.cfg).
3. Click Load. The tree fills with systems.

The folder is remembered across runs. Next time you launch, just click Load.

Back up your card first. Copy the entire card contents to a safe folder before any experiments. Scanner Manager writes a .session.bak alongside the HPD file as a safety net, but a full card backup is cheap insurance.

2. Browse the tree

• Click a System to see its service type distribution and a quick summary.
• Expand a system to see Groups; expand a group to see Entries (conventional frequencies or TGIDs).
• Right-click any node for quick actions (Edit, Toggle Avoid, Delete, bulk operations where applicable).

3. Try the ZIP simulator

1. Tick Enable Location Filter above the tree.
2. Type your ZIP and press Enter.
3. Click Apply. The tree now shows only the systems/groups your scanner would actually scan, ranked by distance. Each group is tagged COVERAGE, NEARBY, LOCAL, STATEWIDE, or WIDE.

Try the Heatmap... and Map... buttons for visualizations.

4. Make an edit

Simplest round-trip:

1. Select any entry.
2. Click Edit... and change the Name.
3. Click Save.

You'll see the change appear in Changes... with a timestamp and a Revert button. Open the .hpd file in a text editor to confirm the write, then click Revert in the Changes dialog to prove the undo path works.

5. Import from RadioReference (optional)

1. Click Import from RR....
2. Paste a category URL (for conventional) or a trunked-system URL.
3. Let the diff dialog load; pick the entries you want.
4. Click Apply.

The whole import is logged as one composite event, so one Revert click rolls everything back.

Next steps

• ZIP & GPS Simulation
• Channel List Management
• Workspaces & Sync