Uniden BC898T 500, Great First Scanner

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Great First Scanner

I know that there is only a bad review so I had to write this. This is a great first scanner. It is very sensitive, picks up all calls from across town and does most of what you want. alpha tagging would be great, but you can do that with a software package, no biggie. I got this because I wanted a scanner for home use, not mobile use, I didn’t want anything with batteries. This fit the bill. You find out a lot about truncked systems and this thing picks all of them up. Very Highly recommended

Update (2/6/2012):

The featured review for this product, Uniden BC898T 500 Channel Programmable Base Scanner with TrunkTracker III Electronics, was written by Joe Charmella.

The average rating for this item is 5 out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.

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Reviews (3)

W. Gugler

May 24th, 2010 at 1:51 pm    


Overall Rating55555

Good buy for the $$$
All its cracked up to be and then some. Pretty good manual, although I found a programming shortcut using Google. I bought a dipole antenna and it did improve the reception significantly. Weather alert programming is dead easy too.
Yes, I’d buy it again.


Joe Charmella

June 2nd, 2010 at 2:47 pm    


Overall Rating55555

Great First Scanner
Rated 5 stars.


D. Hentze

June 17th, 2010 at 2:16 pm    


Overall Rating55555

Great performing scanner
As an amateur radio operator, I own and have owned many scanners. One of my guards. It surpasses almost all my other radios. It does not have all the features of radios costing more, as the marking of text and digital capabilities, but what he can do it very well. At its current level of under-$ 175 price is a bargain. This radio has been a while now, and a firmware update has corrected the problems that the radio originally had with DCS / CTCSS decoder.


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