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

Speaker is very poor. Over priced for what you get

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.

Direct tuning should be more obvious and intuitive. Punching the numbers for a frequency does not tune to that one. Perhaps I am missing something.

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.

The scanner is on of the best scanner’s I’ve ever had if not the best scanner I ever had everything about is amazing

Very good scanner for the money HOWEVER if you live in an area where the signals are trunked (encrypted signals that cant be picked up by everyday scanners) then you may want to consider paying the extra money & getting a scanner with trunking technology built in. If all you want to do is monitor the weather & listen for fire calls (usually not trunked) then this is the scanner for you.

Works great pretty easy to use I recommend a better antenna if you travel with it.

This was not easy to learn how to use, but there are plenty of youtube videos out there to get you going. After the learning curve the product works great. The family can easily use it when I am on a call to ascertain our action level as well as estimated return time. Great for Volunteer Fire Fighters

Love police scanners my old one was outdated, not sure how to program it to listen to police, fire departments or anything, it’s confusing on how to get it programmed

for the bedroom or living room as a secondary analog scanner, it works great. I have an SDS100, BCT15 and use SDR on the computer with a discone in the attic and this little radio/clock scanner with the stock telescopic antenna is picking up analog channels as good if not better than my other scanners. great little scanner for the family to use and listen too. Sound quality in the internal speaker isnt great, has a tinny sound but overall i like it. If you still have local analog stuff to listen too, (our FD and close other counties simulcast dispatch to analog) Then this thing is still a good little scanner. programming is a little clunky has to be done by hand on the scanner, i dont think you can program on a computer.