Features:

  • Includes 500 channels in 10 Banks for scanning local public safety and other interesting frequencies.
  • Easily search bands commonly used for Police, Fire/EMS, Aircraft, Amateur Radio, and Marine transmissions.
  • Built-in FM radio with 30 FM presets, lets you listen to your local radio stations.
  • Built in Alarm Clock lets you wake to your favorite FM station, a weather channel, or scanning. Also has Snooze and Sleep.
  • Weather Scan with Alert, listen to local weather conditions and be alerted when hazardous conditions arise.
  • Large clear LCD backlit display is easy to read at night.
  • The buttons are nicely laid out for ease of use, so there's no fumbling around in the dark.
Best value for price

So far so good- I got this today and set it up with the local EMS / Weather and programmed in my favorite FM radio stations. Two things that really impressed me was the signal strength- for an antenna that's smaller than most car antennae, this picks up way more than my car ever did. The second thing is the speaker. WOW- this little guy can put out some serious sound. I only have it turned halfway up and I can hear it throughout the entire house. Headphone jack for if you want to plug it up to something larger. The back-light is very nice, and the little things like sleep after 60 minutes, lock out scanning, the 500 (!!) banks of memory to store frequencies, and the auto-EMS/Fire/Weather/Air/Marine/Police scanner function is really cool too if you are unsure of your local codes. This has all the features you want out of a nice scanner for under a hundred bucks. I've always like Uniden (they made good quality house phones and other electronics) This is of the same type of high quality- the buttons, knobs, everything seem very sturdy. This may be the last scanner I ever need!

Nice Bang for your Bucks

Bought this as a replacement for a failing (after decades of service) Bearcat BC-300 (the undisputed King of the Scanners in its day). Understand this is NOT a digital scanner, so if you live in a high-end metro environment where the "first responders" run expensive digital gear - no, this won't work for you. Lots of smaller towns and urban/rural areas still run analog radios, however, and in those areas this scanner will work just fine. It has narrow-band capability (e.g., not just 33.700 but 33.7005 delineation), along with weather capability (including the ability to announce weather alerts) and a clock with alarm and snooze too. Not as easy to program as some other scanners, so read the manual! Sound quality is decent, but better with an external speaker (easily attached via the rear 3mm jack). No complaints at all about the service-bands performance, and even the air-bands reception is pretty good. IMHO - a pretty doggoned-good bang for your $$.

Five Stars

Great value and recieved it in a good time frame!!

Easy to program

After reading some of the reviews here, I wasn't sure what to expect. I received my Uniden BC365CRS yesterday, and it is very easily programmable. It took me about 10 minutes to input my scanner codes and then it was scanning beautifully. I highly recommend this unit to everyone.

Really nice scanner.

Great scanner! Really like the weather scan feature. Programming is easy but it does require some extra steps. Once set up it works as advertised. I listen to it mostly at night when the activity is most active. I'm using the auto scan and I'm scanning about ten freq,s or so....any more and you might get only partial transmission/conversation. Overall I like this scanner.

Excellent Tabletop Scanner!

I bought this hoping it would have a better audio quality than the small handheld baefeng that I also have. I was not dissapointed. It comes in nice and clear and it also stays on the channel longer so you can hear the whole conversation whereas the baofeng would skip to next channel the split second they paused in conversation. It has a blacklight display which you can toggle on or off and a telescoping antenna. I live in populated small town on the east coast and I get crystal clear reception from the police and fire without having to even put the antenna up. For the people that say this doesn't work for them I don't think they understand how these work. First go to google and find out what channels exactly your police and fire etc broadcast on. Once you know which channels they use you can program them into the unit and then it will scan between those channels nonstop. You cannot just press scan without entering the channels you want to monitor and expect to get anything. It's not like your car radio. It als has a battery backup and a clock and FM radio which also sounds nice.

The favorite part for my husband is that if he tries ...

Purchased as a gift. The favorite part for my husband is that if he tries to duplicates a number it will not allow it. So his 300 channels turned into a 150 for our area. The sound is clear and the static minimal.

Excellent radio if the agencies in your area are not trunked or encrypted. Check before you buy!

I have to chuckle a bit at some reviewers saying this is too hard to program. If you can enter numbers and press one key, that's all the skill needed to program a frequency into the scanner. The main problem with a lot of the unhappy people is they don't go to RadioReference and check the types of radio systems used in their areas. Some areas have gone to trunked systems, digital transmissions, and some are encrypted, which no scanner can monitor. You can still monitor most trunked or digital unencrypted transmissions but not with this scanner. If your area has analog trunked systems or digital trunked systems, just be prepared to pay anywhere from $200 to $600, the higher price for the most capable digital scanners. The easy way to see if this scanner will work for you is to take a look at RadioReference.com for the frequencies used in your area. If most are in a range from 700 to 900 MHz, this is not the radio for you. This radio is a combination of a clock radio, commercial FM broadcast receiver, weather channels, and analog VHF/UHF scanner. I got mine on an Amazon special for $69.31 because it was a return by one of those people who can't read a simple manual. Their loss, my gain. Everything was in the box, and some of the components were still sealed in the factory plastic. As usual, the Amazon "seconds" are a great buy. The radio itself is fairly lightweight but seems well built. It's a handsome black plastic and looks more like a bedside clock radio than a scanner. Don't let the looks fool you though. This is a very capable radio that will monitor any analog frequency from 25 to 512 MHz. It even includes the VHF and UHF airband, a rarity in a scanner in this price range. The included telescopic antenna is unobtrusive and is sufficient for local monitoring. It's quite a sensitive radio and, although I haven't attached an outdoor antenna, I suspect it may get overloaded in an urban area. You can search all the frequencies in the scanners range and easily save new frequencies found. The downsides as strictly a scanner are no tones and no tags. Tones can sort out multiple agencies on the same frequency so you only hear the one you want. Tags allow you apply an alphanumeric tag to a channel. If you only want to monitor 20 or 30 channels you can memorize the frequencies. No one can do that with 500 channels. You can organize frequencies in 10 banks of 50 to help by only having only one agency per bank, but this is really not the scanner you want if you're going to be listening to hundreds of frequencies. The FM section of the radio works fine. Plenty of sensitivity and the sound from the built-in speaker is decent. Not hifi, but okay for a clock radio. and plenty of volume. There's a jack in the back if you want use a better speaker. I tried it with a pair of powered computer speakers. The tone and fidelity is actually quite good. The weather section is pretty basic. The channels are preprogrammed and you use the arrow keys to scroll through them. Except in rare cases, the clearest channel covers your area. There are no complicated tones to set for an alert. When the radio is in clock mode it is constantly monitoring all the weather channels. A warning from the NWS sets off a loud tone. The downside is the radio is sensitive enough it may pick up an alert on a channel that's fairly far away. I pick up stations 50 miles away with the standard antenna. There haven't been any alerts sent yet so I don't know how realistic a problem that may be. The main thing is this radio will wake you up if there's a warning, and that's one of the reasons I bought this radio. I live in an area with a fair number of tornadoes, and a lot come at night.[Edit - 1/3/2018. After reading further in the manual, the weather alert only monitors the last weather frequency you listened to. Make sure to use the frequency that covers your before you go back to the scanner or FM radio. The scanner then only monitors the local weather frequency. There's no issue with picking up an alert from further away.] This is a great scanner for the price if live in an area that still has analog conventional public safety channels, but it's also great radio if you're an aviation enthusiast or railfan. You can even listen to CB chatter, good buddy. :-)

Good Scanner

I haven't had a scanner for a long time. I decided to buy one. After looking at the different types and styles, I decided on this one. It has a lot of cool features and more channels then I'll ever use. I found the set up directions weren't as clear as they should be, but it didn't take long to figure out. I'm very happy with it!

Uniden BC365CRS Scanner

I was very pleased with the reception in the area in which I live (semi-rural) using only the provided telescoping antenna. I especially like the Limit Search feature of this radio. This scanner is similar to the Whistler WS1025 which does not have the Limit Search feature which determined which scanner I ultimately purchased. Opinion: Unneeded features in this scanner — alarm clock and FM radio.

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