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

We use it to listen to our local fire and police departments.

Pros: Nice clean design. Relatively easy to program. Turn banks on and off at will. A full 500 channels with no pre-programmed banks to waste your time. Good Sensitivity. Antenna always stays upright. Clock radio and weather alert feature a small bonus. Cons: Only goes to 512 MHz - missing the 800 MHz band. Speaker is small and sound is somewhat tinny.

It is nice but cant get any channels

Extremely noisy. It is frustrating as heck!

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.

Great reception and pretty easy to set up. It gets good reception with the stock antenna, but I hooked it up to my j-pole that I have optimized for GMRS/UHF ham. WOW it is getting in 70+ channels on 2meter, airband and of course 440+... Weather radio and FM are both great too. I wish there was a way to just turn a knob to tune FM but no big deal. It seems to be of good quality, nice knobs and buttons, has battery backup, and Im now using it as my alarm clock. The sound isnt bad for a small speaker and its LOUD. Great for the price I could not be happier. For someone who wants to get into scanning this puppy is a great inexpensive way to start.

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So far so good- I got this today and set it up with the local EMS / Weather and programmed in my favorite FM radio stations. Two things that really impressed me was the signal strength- for an antenna thats smaller than most car antennae, this picks up way more than my car ever did. The second thing is the speaker. WOW- this little guy can put out some serious sound. I only have it turned halfway up and I can hear it throughout the entire house. Headphone jack for if you want to plug it up to something larger. The back-light is very nice, and the little things like sleep after 60 minutes, lock out scanning, the 500 (!!) banks of memory to store frequencies, and the auto-EMS/Fire/Weather/Air/Marine/Police scanner function is really cool too if you are unsure of your local codes. This has all the features you want out of a nice scanner for under a hundred bucks. Ive always like Uniden (they made good quality house phones and other electronics) This is of the same type of high quality- the buttons, knobs, everything seem very sturdy. This may be the last scanner I ever need!

Ordered the BC365CRS on May 31st. Very fast service from Amazon, even with standard shipping. Unit arrived OK and all parts were in the pkg as advertised. This scanner is very easy to set up & program; took me just a few minutes to program the ANALOG (only) frequencies in. If you dont live in an urban setting, I recommend connecting an external antenna, as this will provide much better reception than the plug-in antenna included with the scanner. I also recommend hooking up an external speaker for best audio quality. This scanner has lots of great features such as a priority channel, FM radio, clock/alarm clock functions, lighted display, and battery back-up for programmed frequencies/clock in case of power failure. All in all, a great scanner for the money.

My wife wanted a scanner and she saw this one online and wanted to purchase it. I thought for the price why not.... I think its a good scanner for its price point. She likes to keep in the know by listening to it and I think it keeps her entertained when shes home alone. I think its certainly worth what we paid for it.