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

I absolutely love this radio. All the features and accessibility make this the best Ive owned so far. I was skeptical at first due to some of the negative reviews on Amazon, but after playing with it all day today, Im glad I bought it. It can be peaked and tuned though its set perfect out of the box. Doesnt drift at all and the internal diagnostics is a plus though Im not sure how accurate it is. I purchased this as a replacement from a burned up unit, so I thought. Old one wouldnt transmit and it was very old. Plugged in my new, cheaper antenna to this one and the diagnostic test failed the antenna. Actually metered it finally and sure enough my antenna is bad. So I threw away my old unit for nothing Im sure. Albeit aside, Im more than happy with the clarity out of this one and is a huge upgrade from what I had. Weather bands sound great. Memory scan and full channel scan as well as side band are great features. Can fine tune everything quite easily. I watched a single YouTube video about this radio and thats all I needed. No need to break out the manual for this unit. Once you get the idea, its very simple to navigate through all the features. I put this one in my 2014 Silverado z71 right in the center console. Easy power access and ability to hide all the wires. Looks like it belongs. Highly recommend this unit for new or seasoned operators. Just make sure you dont skimp on the antenna. Ill be buying another Firestick and mounting opposite my radio antenna on the hood. I would also recommend not getting a roof mount antenna for this unit. From other reviews, the cb will fail the diagnostics test. Get a good center load and ground it properly and make sure its tuned right. Order a Firestix antenna as well Walcott radio has the best prices.

This product is guilty of false advertising. It DOES NOT come with the removable mic and doesnt say anywhere in the advertisement its sold separately. I bought this for my husband and was very disappointed when it didnt come with that mic. Buyer beware.

I am impressed with my radio out of the box. There are a couple things I am not fond of however. The color and display brightness is almost a deal breaker. Mine is mounted in a semi w/sleeper and damn near dark all day and still barely visible. If I had this in a sedan or day cab/pick up I would have to return it. Major fail on uniden part. But I have made it work in my situation. The RF gain being a digital 1-5 seems to lack fine tuning. And the squelch is almost turned 3/4 up to hit clear. I have used it both ways RF on 5 squelch turned up and squelch turned off and RF to 2 or 3 and she works fine out of the box. But neither adjustment seems to have a sweet spot. Could be my experience. Now both are small potatoes to how good the radio really is. It is a shame about the dim panel display cause this radio gets out and and hears great. I do plan on removing the rubber device in the mic(or replacing it) then tuning the radio but otherwise I will leave her stock. I had an old old hand me down cobra 29 that would have a gremlin here and there (for what it was though I loved it) and a brand new galaxy 949 that spent its life being returned, repaired, repaired.... Not a fan. So I tried a old friend from my youth and I am happy I did.

THIS IS THE SECOND 980 SSB I BOUGHT FROM AMAZON....IT WAS RECENTLY ON SALE FOR $122.00........I JUST COULDNT PASS IT UP........THE FIRST ONE I BOUGHT IN 2013...........I NEVER HAD ANY PROBLEMS AFTER INSTALLING IT IN MY PICK-UP TRUCK ALONG WITH A K30 ANTENNA.....THE NEW ONE WILL BE INSTALLED IN MY AUTO....ALONG WITH A WILSON LITTLE WIL ANTENNA.........GREAT SSB CB RADIO......THE ONLY BAD THING IS THAT UNIDEN MADE IT SO YOU CANT MODIFY IT.......DAM IT!!!!

I am a Ham operator and wanted to pick up a cb for SSB work. Most are well over $200.00 US, I found this one and tried it out. I have been using it for months, no issues, no complaints, no worries. Great features, easy to read display and buttons. The mic is better than what I am used to on a cb. I am running it barefoot (no amp), and they tell me I sound fine . I can only get out about 1-2 miles with it, but that is my antenna, not the radio. I can tell you, the first day I picked up skip from about 5 states away, I knew it was money well spent.

Absolutely awesome CB in concept, but poor in execution. Its like they took a list of everything a CBer would want and handed it to engineers who know nothing about CBs. The good: * Solid SSB. No drifting due to temperature changes. * Great audio. Everyone says I sound perfect. * WX works well. * Numerous colors for display. * Built in SWR meter. * PA feature (non-amplified) The bad (and there is a lot of it): * The annoying beeps everyone talks about. What were they thinking? * You will have to buy an external speaker. Stock speaker is absolutely useless in even moderate wind/road noise. Pathetic 2.5 and 16 ohms. Even for an indoor base station this barely adequate at best. * Display is just as bad as the speaker. Even at night it is too dim and disappears when looked at from the slightest angle. Daytime viewing is absolutely unacceptable. Why this was allowed to be built this way is beyond me unless Uniden just didnt give a damn whatsoever. * QC is just as bad as the speaker and display. Out of the three units Ive owned, one had the display stop lighting after six months of extremely light use (as pictured). Then the AM/WX decided to stop working after six more months of sitting in storage. The annoying beeps still work just fine, though. * The second unit I had would not transmit beyond 1/4 mile from a rooftop base station antenna. Many buyers report the unit not putting out full power, even TXing as low as 2 watts. * Noise filtering is hit and miss on each unit. My two units that broke had good noise filtering. The one I have that still works picks up alternator whine which can only be drowned out with the squelch knob. These were all tested on the same vehicle. * Hardware is locked tight and can not be expanded for extra channels. * Unidens warranty is only one year and they make the customer pay return shipping for their lousy products that should have never left the factory in the first place. * (On a side note, this model disappeared from Amazons listings for about a year. I strongly suspect it was due to the large amount of returns they got.) If you have the extra money, look elsewhere. This model had great potential but its drawbacks are just not worth the headaches.

This CB is awesome. You can digitally tune the antenna, but, its not like old school ones where its precise. It is a digital step that makes it slightly too high SWR or slightly too low. But, works great anyway. The SSB feature is totally amazing. Ive never messed with CB band SSB, and wow do you get some far out stations! Audio is pretty good. But, the display has to be a just the right angle for you - otherwise its too dim - even with adjustments. A quick thanks to Amazon.com. I ordered one of these, and had it shipped to my work - so I could sign for it. Unfortunately, I work where its starting to become ghetto, and someone stole the package right off of my desk, after the secretary signed for it. I filed another police report, (we have bad internal theft now-a-days). I contacted amazon to see if there was any chance of them having a serial number, for tracing. I didnt think they would, and they didnt. However, I was sent an additional radio at no charge! Let me get this straight - Amazon wasnt even to blame in the least, yet, they sent me a replacement radio just because they felt bad? Holy s***. One percent faith in humanity restored, 99 to go.

for the price, the radio really seems to receive pretty well. a lot of the configuration is menu driven. i am using this as base station, so i dont have to worry about trying to make changes while driving. i like the radio overall now that i have discovered its two primary flaws: the display has issues and goes out over time (mine has not yet), and the stock mic that comes with it is pretty much bad. i replaced it with a powered mic (Astatic Road Devil; $40 approximately on Amazon), and that eliminated any problems transmitting. time will tell if the display has issues for me, but, for now, this is a four star radio for the money. i also have several AnyTone AT6666s, and those are worth their weight in gold. the Bearcat 980 is a great radio for beginners so long as you get a power mic to go along with it. photo shows both the radio with the Road Devil power mic.

Love this CB it easy to use. Has noise cancelation. Your voice is very clear when talking. Love the weather chanels it picks up in every state im in and the areas around me so I know ahead. Nice display on the front and one touch to change channels

90% of CB radio is the antenna, so not much to say here other than this is a good radio with lots of features. I used it in my Jeep for offroading. Kids like the selectable colors for the display and wife likes the weather band feature. Although, weather band, as with any frequency, is useless if you are down in a valley or gulley where the signal cant get to you. Also, the radio comes with seven selectable display colors, but no amber color. Two different greens and two different blues, a purple, a white, and a red, but no amber. I wouldve thought amber would be a no-brainer. They have a nice red, so I guess that will do for night work. Controls are easy to use and selecting modes fairly intuitive. The power wire connection at the back, being a plug in style instead of hard-wired to the radio, was a nice touch I thought. Nicer than my old Uniden Pro520XL anyway. Also, emblazoned fairly obviously on the box are the various benefits to having an SSB mode. 80 extra channels! it says, or something like that. But, inside the box? In the manual? Not a word about SSB, what it is or how it works. I guess they expect you to already know that part, or muddle through, but some support literature to go along with an actual feature they are selling on their radio would help. Other than that. good equipment so far.