Uniden BCD996P2 Digital Mobile TrunkTracker V Scanner, 25,000 Dynamically Allocated Channels, Close Call RF Capture Technology, 4-Line Alpha display, Base/Mobile Design, Phase 2, Location-Based Scanning

Great Scanner! Definitely watch YouTube videos to see how to program it, the instructions are confusing. The sound is a little muffled, but that could be the officers.

Took watching a few videos for my husband to get the channels programmed, but the sound is great, and he enjoys hearing the calls as he works in the shop.

This is a great scanner. I would highly recommending downloading freescan software and a premium membership to radioreference.com. Once I download the software and learned how to use it, programming was quite easy

I received it late because of UPS. It is a little hard too program even with free scan and radio reference. I recommend finding a local person that can fully program it if you are not tech savvy. It gets very good reception with stock antenna, and squelch is easy to control. The sound is good volume great. It has the capability to receive more channels under more bands than you can count. From ham, gmrs, public analog, trucnked ect... It is ruggedly built, metal not plastic. It reminds one of the good quality from the 1970-1980 era. Buttons are easy to operate with positive feel. It is expensive, but seems well worth the cost as it has all the features needed to listen to all the local and federal channels within about 150 miles and a little more. It also picks up some aircraft bands. Go ahead and buy it, you will be pleased with it.

I was expecting a bit more for the $$$ its only flaw I can find is the audio drop outs when Priority scanning is active and or Weather scanning is active, Apparently the unit needs a lot of time to check for activity in the background to the point that it makes listening almost unbearable, I would hope in the future Uniden can do this fast enough in the background without the 1 second dropouts, It would be almost perfect otherwise. Yes this scanner is difficult to program buying software and a Subscription to RadioReference for the frequencys is a must! or you could be programming it for days or weeks depending on were you live. were I am there is a proprietary 800 system that is close to impossible to program manually.

The trunktracker verisions that are a little less expensive than the homepatrol models come at the added cost of having to either program yourself or pay for someone to send you a preprogrammed unit. If you can follow a few simple you tube videos it is not hard to program this unit yourself, and as an added benefit you can then decide to only add the channels you want. If you manage to limit that to what is in your reachable area rather than everything youd get on a zip code search on the home patrol model you can end up with a setup where you have a higher probability of constant traffic. Once I figured out the frequencies used closest to me Ive been able to setup my scanner such that it is almost constant traffic, rather than traffic with periods of dead air I experienced with my home patrol model. My home patrol model was much easier to setup, and only needed my zip code, but along with that you may get more frequencies enabled than you might prefer.

I’m sure this is really a great product, but it’s defiantly NOT easy to set up. Lots of add-in’s to pay for. Apparently so difficult to set up, they offer an option to send your new scanner into the service shop to have it programmed by the experts. I don’t see that as a plus.

A strong addition to anyones scanner development program

I didnt care for the fact that the radio arrived to me with an older firmware version. The first thing I had to do with the radio was update the firmware myself. Other than that issue I really like the radio a lot. Perhaps in the future the firmware version can be shown before purchase is made. Thank you for listening. GC

Thank you to Police Scanner Outlet first. I thought this was a fair price. I found it is a great price. I like this radio better than the ones with all the WIFI and SD card stuff. I had the BCD396xt and the BCD996xt and now I have the BCD996P2. It is running well. Our tower just changed to Phase 2. MPSCS So Im ready. The 996xt, 396xt, and 996P2 are very good radios. I compare them to the tip line. I also have RS651, PSR600, RS106 and others to compare them to. I had all I needed to start off running from Police-SCANNER-outlet. Get yours next. Thanks PSO. Oh Im a ham radio op. and I know the radios that get what I want to hear...New Radio Is Top Right