Uniden BC365CRS 500 Channel Scanner and Alarm Clock with Snooze, Sleep, and FM Radio with Weather Alert, Search Bands Commonly used for Police, Fire/EMS, Aircraft, Radio, and Marine Transmissions

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 wont 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 $$.

The scanner is a little hard to program at first, but once you get used to it, it goes well. Great product!

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 doesnt work for them I dont 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. Its not like your car radio. It als has a battery backup and a clock and FM radio which also sounds nice.

Wasnt too complicated to set it up. Downside is it seems to interfere w the cellular or wifi signal if youre close to the unit

find this really good

I bought this for the aircraft band. Ive got Jax high altitude, Jax, Craig, St Aug, NAS, Herlong, and Cecil Field all programmed in. Everything is pretty straightforward and simple to use. Didnt even need the owners manual. The marine band scans so fast its crazy...I bought the refurbished unit, a great deal.

Simple and easy to program. Good for scanning basic police fire and emergency communications. Priority channels easy to program and change. Not much use for alarm clock features but has a timer you can set to turn off when Not in use. 10 banks can be programmed for Priority use or can be turned off in an instant. Good value for the price.

Easy to use and picks up all of my local frequencies no problem

Light weight and easy to program. I found the codes online and in 5 minutes it was set up. I live in a rural area and am able to get everything: fire, ems, state and sherif. I have a hand held radio shack that is 20 + years old. Still love it but I dont like buying batteries for it. Havent needed it for clock or radio but will give it a go. This is great scanner.

Received the unit quickly from seller. Unit was as advertised. This unit is easy to set up and use. I live in a small rural town (under 10,000) and this unit picks up all activity in my area. If you need your area frequency numbers go to radiofrequency.com and find your state, county and city. There is a list of frequencies there. If you need help setting up your unit there are some short videos by Uniden demonstrating a typical setup which is very easy.