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

I liked it a lot but ended up giving it away about the second time we had a bad weather system come through and it woke me up in the middle of the night, (and Im sure the people who live upstairs as well) with an alarm that sounded between an air raid alarm and a tornado siren. It is definitely loud enough you cannot sleep through it, but doesnt do a whole lot of good if it causes a heart attack. The kids I gave it to like it and they agree it is loud, but they find that aspect funny. They are young enough to be my grandchildren.

find this really good

I hoped this would be like the one my dad had when I was a kid that just skimmed threw all frequencies until someone got on. But as of right now I can not get it to skim threw all channels have additional antenna and still doesn’t work right might be use error but it shouldn’t be that hard to figure out

The stock antenna is on the left. The after market antenna on the right increased my reception big time. It just wobbles from side to side. Lean it to the window. This scanner blows my old Radio Shack scanner away. Picks up more channels. Bettet squelch. More banks. More pre programed frequency.Outstanding unit!!!

Excellent scanner. Only thing I had trouble with was most codes are more than 6 digits, as for this scanner only allows 6 digits. But after researching, you don’t have to enter all numbers when programming codes. Just enter what you can. Example: Code is 627.55107 then for this scanner you’ll just enter 627.551 and still works!

OVER ALL IT IS A GOOD SCANNER,

This is a great desktop scanner at a good price. Quite easy to program and use. I own other police scanners and this one has the best sound quality.

Programming this scanner was so easy!! Absolutely would purchase again!

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instruction manual not so good but a little button pushing needs practice. the instructions dont follow through with all necessary scenario steps necessary. mine does run on batteries. three fresh ones lasted a touch over 15 hours. reception is real good with magnetic base antenna up on top my of bird cage and its downstairs ground level + maybe six feet higher than ground level. audio quality is as expected pretty good. uniden should expand on this form factor. its an attractive rig. a more complete frequency spectrum radio would be rather nice to own with the scanner ability as well. i seldom give five stars and didnt think it deserves five but four reflects needed expansions.