Uniden Bearcat SR30C, 500-Channel Compact Handheld Scanner, Close Call RF Capture, Turbo Search, PC programable, NASCAR, Racing, Aviation, Marine, Railroad, and Non-Digital Police, Fire, Public Safety

This radio is fine if you live in a small town or for sporting events but dont expect to hear anything more than a few miles away even with an outdoor antenna.

Muy compacto y fácil de usar.

I own multiple scanners and have been scanning for well over 30 years - this little Bearcat is incredibly inconvenient to program - turn the volume and/or squelch up or down - but most of all, just to turn on and off. It’s reception is very poor compared with all my other hand held scanners - I used various antennas to see if there was improvement. The best thing it does is search active frequencies, so I use it as a “search scanner” to find active frequencies so as to load them in my other units. For auto racing or for listening to Emergency services close by, it would be fine. But for anything more then 2-3 miles away that’s not being broadcast through a county wide repeater - forget it.

because iam having issues programing my uniden scanner and i cant seam to find the police in my area here in jacksonville nc or fire department etc

Good scanner for the money. I have 2 of the Uniden BC75XLT handheld scanners besides this one and they work great. They are really tough. Their is a trick to programming the frequencies, but they receive really good.

I dislike how it doesn’t pick up the nearest local police frequencies but picks up ones that are random.

I use this for rail fanning and it works well. The only small gripe is that the advertised range, with the attached antenna, is not as far as specified. Then again, I am in a hilly area, so that probably makes the range much shorter.

Works as advertised. You might want to watch some YouTube tutorials on programming the scanner.

I used this for the International Air Show this weekend and it worked great! It was very cool to listen to all the pilots and the ground crews during the 3-day event. Highly recommend. FYI...it does not ship with batteries, you need 2 x AA batteries.

Hard to program. Tried putting in codes for police, fire. And ambulance. Would not take them. Manual scan never picked them up.