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 SR30C is compact and easy to carry. A learning curve to program it. I ended up watching a YouTube video on how to enter my own frequencies and it is easy once you know the steps. I replace the included antenna with my own longer one for better reception. Otherwise a decent scanner.

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

Bought it for my husband he loves it Made a great gift to replace his old one

This has to be considered a basic analog scanner. It seems to work well with good sensitivity. Programming is a bit tedious if you want to enter multiple frequencies. The most significant deficiency is that you cannot enter alphanumeric names for your banks and channels -- the only scanner Ive ever owned since the 1990s that didnt have that feature. Also note that the PC software for programming only works on a Windows PC, not Mac. They advertise something called Turbo Search but there is nothing in the User Manual that describes such a feature. UPDATE: I have returned the SR30C and replaced it with its better brother, the BC125AT. Amazon doesnt carry it (in the U.S.) but I found it for only a few dollars more than the SR30C on Walmart. (EDIT:: I see that Amazon now has the SC125AT). The BC125AT is essentially the same scanner as the SR30C but with MUCH better features (including alphanumeric channel labels) for only a few dollars more. It almost seems that Uniden intentionally crippled functions and features to make the SR30C a bit cheaper.

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

Extremely difficult to program!!!!!!!

Brought this thinking that I could start doing a hobby I’ve been interested in for a while. I couldn’t figure out even after doing YouTube searches on it to get it out of all lock mode. Also couldn’t figure out how to get my local police feeds. Returned it a week later. After I sent customer support a message which they only say they respond via email, though they do have an 800 number. Call the 800 number and all it says is to email them. Not worth the money.

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!

it works the pc programing need more help