Uniden Bearcat BC125AT Handheld Scanner, 500-Alpha-Tagged Channels, Close Call Technology, PC Programable, Aviation, Marine, Railroad, NASCAR, Racing, and Non-Digital Police/Fire/Public Safety.

As a former firefighter I like to keep up with the calls thru out my county, Im still a first responder if needed. Glad to be retired.

Really like this Scanner, very easy to program and easy to use with a lot of nice features. Ive always been a radio geek and like listening to radio traffic when Im on trips and traveling. Even though this scanner can only do conventional radio traffic (not digital), for the money it is a very solid unit with a lot to like and only a few drawbacks for the price. Pros: - 500 Channels, with fast 80 channel per second scan rate works real well, no missing transmissions - 10 banks for easy organization of types or areas of frequencies - Very easy to program with the software available online - Has a Close Call feature that quickly locates and temporarily stores in use frequencies that are close to you, even if not programmed in - Temporary lock out for quickly preventing transmissions on busy or nuisance channels (I use this a lot) - CTCSS/DCS tone search on received channels works really really well and is handy for unknown frequencies - Reception is really really good across the spectrum, I use this with a mag mount car antenna and I can scan 2m amateur radio and main public safety repeaters from almost 100 miles away...very impressed - Awesome Alphanumeric display that quickly shows all the data about the user, frequency, tone, and other information Cons - I only have one Con with this unit, and its regarding the battery consumption. It can be a battery hog if you dont have good rechargeable batteries. I usually go through 2 sets of AAs on standard day road trips, and have gone through 3 on day/evening trips. I highly recommend this scanner and have been thoroughly satisfied with it. No it doesnt do digital channels, but that is another total class of unit.

There was no way to connect it to the electrical receptacle in the wall.

This is my 3rd bearcat scanner. This is a very portable scanner and works well. Ive had a scanner since I was 14 and Im 63 now. You cannot pick up all the police and fire frequencies with this scanner.

It is my first scanner so I knew I would have to learn how to use it, but it wasn’t as easy as the box would have you believe. The included manual is comprehensive and complete, that being said it’s a lot of information to ingest. But if you look up the frequencies you’d want to listen to online, and watch a video on how to program them, you will not be too lost. As far as signal and functionality goes, A+ With the stock antenna I get all (analog) signals within a reasonable range. Battery life is pretty good if you are fine not having the backlight on the whole time, as that cuts the usage time by 70% with my testing at full volume which is plenty loud for those wondering.

I am doing some work for our towns newspaper and wanted to know what’s going on in the area. The publisher gave me his scanner but we were to far from the sheriffs department in a valley to hear calls. I bought this Uniden and am surprised how far through mountains it picks up. What I don’t like is the horrible instructions. I was ready to return it and I decided to go on you tube to figure out how to unlock it. The instruction manual had different instructions than the web did to reset it. The web worked, instructions did not. When I got it, several channels where programmed and it immediately locked and nothing I could do to unlock it until I found the instructions on the web. I suspect this was returned and resold. The unit itself is easy to program once the kinks are worked out, which was nearly three hours. Go to YouTube for more clear instructions. We used one bank and were able to program EMS, Sheriffs department, and forestry in it and the best part, you can program with the frequency what each setting is. When police calls come over, it reads “”police” and so on. Once you use a scanner, you appreciate this feature. Before buying, be sure your area is not on digital broadcasting as this unit is analog. Any broadcast that starts with an “8” is digital. Our state police here use digital and those scanners are very expensive. There are many sites on the web that you can find all the scanner frequencies as so you can program the Uniden Scanner. Some list every single broadcast frequency’s being used in your area, most of which are construction companies. It comes with a charging cord to plug into a PC to charge it. If you have a USB wall plug, works that way as it doesn’t come with an AC adaptor. The battery life is about six hours which is disappointing. It’s pretty interesting to listen to the broadcasts. The unit it self is five stars, the instructions are two stars.

Is a decent analog radio

Works great love big backlit screen so easy to read also when you enter your channels in you can give them a name so your not just looking at a bunch of numbers running across the screen . Picks up very well in our area. If you area uses digital this one is not for you it is anti-log. It was a little hard to learn how to set up, but if you go to YouTube and watch a video it well make life a whole lot easier while setting it up. Picks you all emergency channels in our town without a hitch. Love the weather channel..

The interface is very complicated, but its a good scanner, and works for my needs (monitoring Airband).

Not so user friendly