I highly recommend David Hitchner's ID Tracker program. It is a small Windows based app that works great with my BC780. It is available here.

These QuickBasic (DOS) programs have been around for a while and have limited interest in the scanner world. I tested them on PCs as slow as a 386 laptop with 4Mb of memory.

Be advised that these programs do not program the scanner. Although you can use a simple terminal program to upload text files with frequency/channel information.

Looking at the screen shots here, you can see the programs are not much more than glorified displays. In any event, as with most of my software, I gladly share it. Source code is included. All programs can handle COM1: or COM2:.

Programming with text files & a terminal program

Each channel and frequency is on a separate line followed by a carriage return (hex 0D). Sending a line feed causes the radio to reject the data. TERMINAL.EXE from Windows 3.X has to have the 'Strip LF' enabled under the 'Following CR:' option. This is accessed by 'Send Text File' from the top menu. Under the text file transfer options, set for one line at a time and wait for prompt string to equal ^M (carriage return). In BASIC, I just send a CHR$(13) which is just a carriage return.

For example: (the {Cr} is invisible - don't type it. Using a simple text editor, the editor will actually append {Cr}{Lf} where {Lf} is a line feed. Remember that the terminal program will eliminate the {Lf} for you).

For conventional scanning frequencies (BC895):

For the BC780 (invisible carriage return not shown for the 780 examples):

For trunking frequencies in the BC895 (an actual example of the City of San Diego's system). KEY13H places the radio in the trunk programming mode, KEY21 D tells the radio which bank, in this case, bank 'D'. Channels 91 through 108 are programmed, and KEY13 takes the radio out of the trunk programming mode. Series of data similar to the one below may be repeated for additional banks as needed.

For the 780, here's a typical trunking setup for the same system as above:
City of San Diego System in first bank (invisible carriage return not shown for the 780 examples)

Programming the alpha tags for the Motorola talk group IDs and banks