Uniden BEARCAT 980 40- Channel SSB CB Radio with Sideband NOAA WeatherBand,7- Color Digital Display PA/CB Switch and Noise Cancelling Mic, Wireless Mic Compatible

This radio is simply the best radio Ive ever owned. I previously had a small, basic radio from Uniden, and this one blows it out of the water. This radio has every feature I could dream of. The weather stations are an awesome bonus, and had a clean, strong recieve. The built in SWR meter is accurate, the RF gain gets me out there farther than I can even recieve! The AM stations have a clean reception and the speaker quality is great. The SSB is a home-run addition. On top of all of this, the customization options on the radio are amazing. I love the choice of different colors, contrasts and brightness. The diagnostic features are great too. The only place that this radio lacks is with the microphone, its very quiet until you really get up into it. This is partially fixed by the mic gain on the radio, which helps enough to make it work. Definitely plan on upgrading to a power microphone. Other than that, this radio blows me away. Definitely recommend over any other radio on the market!

Horribly dim. I saw other people say it was dim but this horribly dim. Everything works …..at night.

this radio is great easy to use all functions work get a good antenna and your good to go i am using for a base station,buy a base station antenna and this radio will work like a race horse,power is good the built in swr is a great feature no need to buy one,check out the functions wow i talked to someone 30 miles away on am side band works great too if you buy this you wont be disappointed and the price is nice too get one.

Awesome looking radio. Easy to adjust vr pots for best performance. Great on side band, no drift. You will not find a new radio with the features of the Uniden Bearcat 980. Now the 4 star comes from the SMT board this radio uses. There are NO MODS out for the radio because the radio is run by a cpu. The radio beeps EVERYTIME you push a button or change the channel. The beep can be turned off by removing a very small resistor on the smt board, hard to see but easy enough to do. There is no mod for extra channels. But for a first time ssb radio or a great sounding stable ssb radio this can not be beat. Get a power mic and your good to go. Size is about the same as a cobra 29 ltd but not as deep. If you want a LOUD radio to freeband with this is not for you. I love mine and will live without extra channels

Cant add much more than the other positive reviews except that when powered by a power supply indoors (12.5 volts) output power is 3 watts AM, 9 watts SSB. When running off of truck/alternator (13.8 - 14.3 volts) output power is dead on 4 watts AM, 10-12 watts SSB and have not made any internal adjustments. Also, as far as the screen scratching easily, I agree. My solution was to get a screen protector for a Sony PSP handheld game system and trim it to fit with an x-acto knife and a straight-edge. Made contacts from Midwest to New York, Northern Idaho, Ontario-Niagara Falls and Puerto Rico on SSB with good reports on my audio. I have this paired up with a Solarcon I-Max 2000 antenna and no radial kit running barefoot. Overall very happy with this radio and purchased another. Recommended. ***UPDATE*** My second radio stopped transmitting and the screen started going nuts 15 days after purchase. Amazon was great and sent out a replacement with 2-day shipping. I have to knock off 1 star for the transmit and screen going out. I do understand anything made on an assembly line will produce a few lemons out of the bunch but I have read of this happening to others and hope it is not a common occurrence. My first radio is still working great. I will update if anything else goes wrong. I do give amazon 5 stars for their great customer service. *****UPDATE 12/17/2016***** I purchased another one of these and it was way off frequency on receive and transmit. Contacted amazon and they sent another one very quickly. The replacement looked used (packaging looked like it had been removed, radio had large grey, possibly paint, thumbprint on back of radio, would not wipe off). This one was way off frequency also and was sent back for a refund. This is a newer design Amazon is currently selling and the model is 980SSBW (maybe the W designates worse), the older ones were model 980SSB and they are good radios. Uniden also dropped the warranty from 2 years on the older model 980 to one year on the newer 980s, that is very telling of the quality. I recently had a bad experience with two different Galaxy DX-979s (See my review, they both had receive problems). All the CB radio manufacturers seem to be making their radios in Vietnam now and I think the quality is suffering. I wonder if they use calibrated frequency counters when building these new Uniden 980s or maybe the workers are rushed or dont care. Uniden needs to step up their game on these radios. If Uniden would make their service manuals available maybe these radios would not have to be sent back when the frequency is off. I dont know what is going on with the radios going out used. I was told by an Amazon customer rep that returns dont get resold, but There are other reviewers that stated they received used radios also. Maybe Uniden is repackaging factory serviced units as new. I really like the two 980s I purchased in 2015 but these new ones are lesser radios in my opinion.

Tiny speaker

Just installed so I cant say yea or ney yet. Disappointed how dim it lights up in the daytime, even with full brightness. Hard to see in daytime light. Will evaluate after I get familiar with the 980 SSB. I took off 2 stars for dim lighting.

I purchased the Uniden BEARCAT 980 40- Channel SSB CB Radio with Sideband NOAA WeatherBand,7- Color Digital Display PA/CB Switch and Noise Cancelling Mic, Wireless Mic Compatible on 22 May 2023. It arrived in great shape, was easily set up (after sunset) and the diagnostics are a great asset for checking the radios SWR, battery status, etc. The radio is not usable in sunlight; even tried draping a towel over my head to block it out. I purchased it to use with an ECOFLOW RIVER Pro or GOLABS i200 Portable Power Station external battery and a BTECH RPS-30M 30 Amp Regulated Universal Compact Bench Power Supply. Along with a 30-foot homemade mast, using a Tram 1411 Scanner 25MHz–1,300MHz VHF/UHF Super Discone Base Antenna Plus CB Transmit Bands (1.43 SWR according to the CBs meter) that I erect while camping. It works great once Im able to read the digital display. I shouldve believed the reviews concerning this shortcoming!

Purchased for husband’s birthday. He installed and began using it pretty quickly.

LED is too hard to read cant see it during the day. Settings are set to the brightest colors brightness contrast still cant see it. I really should return it.