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

The only thing I dislike in this day and age of cheap miniature digital chips is there are no labels/tones for channels. Otherwise, if you only need to monitor conventional analog comms, not trunked, not digital, not scrambled, etc. this is a good scanner to carry around in lieu of a ~$400 one doing the same thing. Easy to program by hand or by a Microsoft computer. This scanner is pretty sensitive as well. After I programmed it by PC I let it run and it was picking up VHF high band comms in cities 10 to almost 30 miles away at a slightly lower elevation from inside the house with its stock rubber ducky!

I find this good

I bought this a few months back and I still have a difficult time saving channels and navigating the radio.

I was looking to monitor aircraft frequencies. Right out of the Box it started finding close by transmitters. With a little manual reading I learned how to store those found frequencies in the empty memory slots. A little more reading and I was able to scan the preprogrammed aircraft band. Little more reading I might find out what else it can do for me. Battery started beeping after 3 or 4 hours of use. It shut off little after that. Im going to monitor battery life on the 2nd set a little closer so I know how many spare batteries to keep with me. Its standard AA batteries so cheap and easy to find.

Seemed to work well for nascsr. Used the computer to program it because typing in individual frequency for 50 drivers was taking forever. Had to play with the settings quite a bit to get adequate reception. Instructions could be a little more clear. Overall it did its job of picking up the NASCAR driver radio broadcasts.

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.

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.

Es práctico, con buena vida útil de batería, útil para mí y una buena inversión.

Perfect for what I wanted it for, a little difficult to use though. Battery life isn’t too great and being US variant there’s a few frequencies I can’t pick up.

I is hard to program, could not receive any signals but the weather, could not program with usb.