Uniden BC355N 800 MHz 300-Channel Base/Mobile Scanner, Close Call RF Capture, Pre-programmed Search “Action” Bands to Hear Police, Ambulance, Fire, Amateur Radio, Public Utilities, Weather, and More, Black

I wanted a scanner that I could use at my home, as well as at my tiny cabin (where 12 volt solar is my only power source), and this product proved to be perfect for this application. Granted, it only receives analog signal, but for my area (Central Missouri), that is all that I need to stay on top of things. It receives all of my local police, fire, and EMS, both dispatch and mobile just fine. I really like the ability to switch to the other bands this scanner receives, such as air and marine. The only reason I didnt give it 5 stars, is due to the fact that the manual is difficult to understand, however, you can watch a few Youtube videos to get the idea, and after that it is pretty easy. Just a couple of helpful hints. If you program your local frequencies into private mode, you will get much better performance by deselecting all options other than private mode, and if you want to listen to any of the other bands, then just select the particular band of your choice, and deselect the private band, because if you try to scan too many bands at once, you will miss out on a lot, because there is a lot going on the airwaves, and you can only listen to one frequency at a time. Finally, a good tip for programming locals into private mode, is to go to broadcastify.com, and select the area you want to listen to. Broadcastify will allow you to listen to broadcasts in your area. Next, begin a search of scanner frequencies for your area, programming them into the scanner. Unless there are any trunked frequencies, you should hear the scanner talk when broadcastify talks. I hope this is easy to understand as it is relatively easy to do. All in all, I am very happy with this product, it does what I need it to do.

Great quality of materials. Much better than expected. Appearance is great. With these lights it really improves your visibility. Great buy and price can’t be beat.

Doesn’t pick up any local DIGITAL bands. This product is for analog only so if you are at home wanting to listen to local police, fire and EMT this is NOT what you want…

Do a search online for what frequencies your town uses for fire and police. radio reference dot com is the one I used. Go down the list and find your town, to the right of your town , in the mode section if it says P25= this scanner will NOT work. means its Digital/private. This is a analog machine. If however it says FM under mode area for your town, you WILL get that station just fine, meaning its analog. You can buy scanners that pick up the P25 digital mode but they are alot more money. Hope this helps new customers in deciding as my town has the police in p25 mode and i cannot listen with this machine, but the fire is in fm so i can listen. ..........im still learning, but as for trying to GET TO A SPECIFIC STATION=... hit the band button and toggle it to the basic area you want say 100 to 200 , now hit scan, soon as your near the number you looking for hit the HOLD BUTTON, and use the up or down arrows to get to it. thats all, when someone talks on that , it will come on automatically. ........ as for saving a favorite to your bank... same deal as above, go to Bank, select the area you want example 100-200, search, soon as near number hit HOLD, use up down to get to number you want...Now hit the PROG button, then hit the PRIVATE BUTTON..there you can put it in the bank you want(it blinks to select a bank think you ca nstore 100 on here or something) now Hit PROGRAM again , and it saves it ..so next time you can just hit private and your saved banks of liked frequencies are over there, .. mine just wont work right with my saved ones but im not sure if it will listen to all my saved ones when one is activated or what yet as still learning this machine(grumbles lol) also that cc weird thing on bottom left I read will go to any live talk or something, non stop?, in reviews above, but i havent tried it out yet. Well thats all for now, if I figure anything more , ill update this post if need.

As many have stated its easy to program add the freq to memory . However it is very difficult to get the freq displayed to program it into memory. Without keybord direct entry you must get the scanner to land on or close to the freq you want to add . Yes the up down arrows with the scanner in hold will allow you to manualy enter the freq . However the up down steps do not allow for inbetween freq entry . Speaker is very tinny and a lot of white noise in background so if you like listening to static this is the one for you . This can be corrected with a good external speaker. I own 6 other scanners and this is not the quality I expected of Uniden . Also be aware the reviews listed for this scanner seem to be mixed up from other scanners. This review is for Uniden 800 MHz 300-Channel Base Mobile Scanner (BC355N)

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Easy to program once you figure it out sounds great no issue receiving transmissions.

Works great not A problem

Will not receive some am frequencies.

You will know whats going on with this radio