Features:

  • Mobile BearTracker scanner with 9,000 Channels, advanced dynamic memory system, close call RF capture technology, and more
  • TrunkTracker III technology lets you can keep up with the action on Motorola, EDACS and LTR systems. Individual channel volume offset
  • Location-Based scanning automatically selects programmed systems based on your location when connected to a compatible GPS receiver
  • State-by-state preprogrammed channels for local police, DOT, and Highway Patrol frequencies when you travel, without having to program
  • 100 system Quick Keys with 10-channel group Quick Keys per system; system/channel number tagging for rapid access.Continuous Band Coverage* - 25MHz to 1.3GHz Excluding UHF TV and Cellular
  • DCS/CTCSS Rapid Decode – Instantly Detects and Displays the Subaudible Tone So You Can Quickly Determine the System Settings.
One of the best scanners for the money

After doing some research, I bought this for use in my patrol car. It is an excellent analog scanner! It is a perfect size for mounting in a vehicle and not taking a lot of room. I love having the ability to attach an external speaker and having a headphone jack on the face. It is fairly easy to program by hand after getting used to how it is setup; optionally it has a cable to program via computer. I used to use radio shack scanners back in the day, but after I borrowed one of these Uniden's from a friend, I was sold. The BCT15X has tons of capabilities and options, such as alert tones, ability to adjust settings on specific channels/frequencies, and GPS capability. Well worth the money for a good quality scanner.

Love it! But..

I bought this scanner last summer to put in my vehicle, this is a great scanner. But it is definitely a lot more complex for what I had intended. I'm thinking about looking for something a little more simple to have in my vehicle and having this on my desk at home. I would definitely recommend this scanner to anyone! Just be warned if you're not very familiar with scanners, or if all you want to do is listen to one or two frequencies I would recommend something a little smaller

Terrific Scanner.. If you love a Challange

If you love a scanner that will challenge your brain as well as your fingers, then this is the scanner for you. Programming it can either be a joy, or sheer torture, depending on your outlook and skill level. For me, this is a pure joy, as I am a Ham Radio Operator, and I love to tinker around with gadgets. This also stimulates my brain, as I am also legally Blind. If you don't appreciate a good old fashioned mental challenge, then this is NOT the scanner for you. UPDATE: Feb 12th, 2015: Once you get past the Gobbledygook of the provided User Manual, Manually programming this scanner is EASY, and for some of us, even fun. Even though this is an Analog Scanner, there are a great many things I can program it for that I can't do with my much more expensive HomePatrol 1. I have discovered that having both kinds of scanners can be a good thing. Unfortunately, I live in one of those sucky areas of the country that has decided to scramble most, if not all of it's police transmissions, except for the CHP. Fortunately however, I enjoy listening to other things, such as Amateur Radio, Fire, Airports, Railroads, and so on that DO NOT Scramble their transmissions, and in some circumstances, a good old fashioned Analog Scanner sounds and works better than Digital. As to the Build Quality, this thing is almost a Brick, and just as solid. It has some real weight to it, unlike the HomePatrol 1, which would probably fall apart if you sneezed anywhere near it. It comes with a stock metal antenna, that works far better than the one that comes with the HomePatrol 1. All and all, a very high quality and durable scanner.

Uniden BCT15X is pretty cool, lots of features for home base scanning or car.

First of all features of the scanner is 5 star, it's built like a tank, it's pretty heavy. When you first turn it on, everything is set on. It's very annoying, with alerts going off very loudly. The first thing press the large silver knob on the right. It's your basic function setting knob. Press the vol knob, small lower left black knob. Then turn the silver function knob to your state. Then press the E button below the 9 button, it's the yes selection button. Now your scanner is set to some local settings. Then press the silver function knob again, scroll by turning the silver knob to "set bear tracker" then press the silver knob to go into that setting. It will show new menu items, scroll down with the silver knob again by rotating it to "set alert tone" and press the function knob again to select it. The first item says off, hit the "E yes" button in the keypad area. Now just hit "menu" button 3 times, to get back to main screen. That will turn off those loud alerts. Also you might want to go into settings and turn down the alert volume and change the tone as well. This is the basic operation of setting items in the scanner. There are 5 buttons next to the display Pol (police), HP (highway patrol), gps, menu, l/o lockout. To turn off scanning temporarily for police, tap the police button and you'll see the PL icon, then PL, DT, then blank on the display, meaning it's off. Same with HP, HP/BT, then off. To lockout air, military air, FRS, CB, Marine, and it's in scan mode. Push the scan button on the upper right next just next to the func silver knob, to make sure you're in scan mode. It will scan through all the bands that aren't locked out. CB, FRS, etc.. So to lock those out, just press the func knob, scroll to CB and press the l/o button to lock out that band from scans, same with the other bands. Now i'm able to scan police, air, ham, military, whatever I want and just the ones i want. It's not that hard. You just press L/O to temporary lock out bands you don't want to scan, do this again to remove the lockout. So basic operation is easy to figure out. I think i'd have a harder time actually programming certain channels into groups. But so far, i'm enjoying just listening to air. Or just police in my neighborhood. Not sure how to set permanent l/o because when i turn it off and back on, i have to lock out all the band i dont want to hear again, which isn't hard, but i'd prefer to keep just a few bands on scan always. If you know leave me a msg. One thing I think would be nicer is a better antenna, the one provided works, and I can hear most local things but some transmissions could be clearer I think with a better antenna. Other then that, for the price i'm satisfied. Oh and if you are going to program it via pc/usb the trendnet TU-S9 usb to serial converter fits perfectly to the supplied cable and comes with a driver, it's 9 bucks here on amazon. I got that just in case i have to upgrade firmware, but my unit had the latest installed. I'm using this for home and it does come with AC adapter, but I guess most people would get this for their car, and does come supplied with a car bracket and red/black power wires to hook into the car, but i'm using this to enjoy at home and the built in speaker is loud enough for me. Other then that, it comes with a disk with all the different uniden scanner manuals in html format. If you're really into scanning, i'd recommend going a step up to the digital scanner 996 i think. I do get most of the local police and air but i'm sure i'm missing a lot by not having the digital channels as well. Update: For those who can't program it, I found a youtube video on freescan, a program that runs on windows and it was easy to get frequencies online and I just typed them into freescan. Freescan uses the cable I mentioned above and connected to my scanner at 115k baud, and you just click upload to upload your groups with your frequencies. It took like all of 1 minute to upload. The sw lets you control all the settings of the scanner as well as the frequency groups you just created. So whoever said these were hard to program, it's far from the truth. It's hard if you try to program through the buttons, it's super simple with the free program called freescan. What I like about the freescan sw too, is you type in the name of each of the frequencies and it pops up on the display. So now i'm just scanning between the frequencies I've loaded, works so much better now. It's great.

Not Digital - Analog reception only

Analog model worked fine for analog signals, but many of todays systems are digital, so depends on what you need for your area. I was happy with the reception and capabilities I got, BUT, decided to go digital with a Uniden BCD996P2.

Great scanner & Great price

I give scanner five stars with one major suggestion: make sure you know someone who has app to load frequencies or better yet, do as I did. I have friend who cloned his scanner to mine. It’s very complicated to set up. If you don’t have access to those people, I highly recommend let company preprogram your scanner, pay the extra $ to have them program scanner. I’ve owned several scanners in my life. This by far is one of the best. I use mine in my POV with a window mount antenna and recieve good coverage. I want to hook to my base station roof mount antenna to see how far coverage is. All in all, amazing scanner

Hard to learn, but worth the time.

I'm quite happy with this scanner. Admittedly, there is a sharp learning curve. But, once you get your head wrapped around their System/Site/Group/Channel paradigm, it's an amazingly powerful scanner. Reception seems good, trunking works great. I should note that you MUST setup custom band plans if you're listening to a rebanded system! I thought this would have been done out of the box, and I almost returned it before I tracked that information down. Once I setup the custom bandplans, everything works fantastic. Audio is surprisingly good (I don't even feel the need for an external speaker in the car). In short, YES, it will take some time to learn. Throw away the manual on the CD and find the easier manual on the web. (The "easier" version still seems complex, but he explains it well.) Once you understand how things work, you'll really grow to love this scanner.

Bearcat Scanner

My Bearcat Scanner was a great purchase and good price Works really pulls in weak signals easy to program and simple to operate lots of fun listening to many hot channels and if you need anything to go along with your Bearcat Radio just look on Amazon

....Where's the Operators manual??????

....YEEEEEEHAAA!!! Not for the beginner....unless you want to study and WEB search for the operating modes/instructions and set it up. Otherwise ...if you are familiar and can understand acronyms and obscure operational instructions ...... this scanner is awesome! I've been working with it and purchased a Garmin GPS GPS18X PC from amazon with the Rs232 connector for the rear port. I tried running it with WIN10 on a Toshiba Satellite and it was a disaster. I have been have real serious issues and glitches with WIN 10 with all my HAM hardware and software. I tried it on my WIN 8.1, WIN 7.......and the winner is WIN XP!!! This scanner will scare heck out of you with a GPS hooked up to it. My thoughts again..... New microsoft technology is not really friendly with this older hi tech gear!! Just my thoughts!!! Semper Fi! Godspeed!! KC3GDY

Believe I found the One!

I have had other scanners from different manufacturers and this one is the one I am looking for. I am a novice and still in the learning phase. Saying that, I recommend this scanner and I would also say use Proscan PC software (I am on Windows 10 and have no issues). Will update later.

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