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Here you will find the tcl/tk app I wrote to control my Uniden BCD396T. It was written on a fedora core 3 linux system but with minor changes, could be made to run on any system that has tcl/tk installed.

Some screen shots can be found here:
You'll need a few tcl/tk helper apps in order to run BCD396T Manager:

These three can be found here.
  1. The Widget Callback Package: Wcb
  2. The Multi-Entry Widget Package: Mentry
  3. The Multi-Column Listbox Package: Tablelist
You will also need the Bwidget package.
Some distros don't include tcllib so I've also included it as well.

These will need to be installed in your tcllib directory, -ie- /usr/lib/tcl8.4

You can also find these 4 packages here.

Once all these are installed, you can try out the program, BCD396T Manager (ver 0.16).

Install the program by extracting the tarball into a new directory.
Execute the program, bcd396t.tcl.

A quick note about editing the system files. It seems that, using the tablelist widget, you must hit Enter to finish the edit of the cell.
Also, if you tire of entering your RadioReference login and password when importing data, you can manually add it to the "bcdconfig.ini"... -ie-
set logname "your login"
set passname "your password"

If you have any issues, drop me a line:
tom AT wonderland DOT us DOT com

Enjoy...