Uniden Bearcat BC75XLT Handheld Scanner, 300 Channels, 10 banks, Close Call Technology, PC Programable, NOAA Weather, Aviation, Marine, Railroad, NASCAR, and Non-Digital Police/Fire/Public Safety

First of all, dont use free shipping because its garbage, 2 day is totally worth it unless you plan on being lied to about arrival dates. That being said I love this scanner so far it has exceeded my expectations. I read tons of reviews and watched videos on programming it and everyone makes it seem super complicated and stuff. Youd have to be stupid to not be able to program it. Its so incredibly easy, like if you can use a cell phone, you wont have a problem programming this scanner. I bought this ahead of the 2016 great Tennessee airshow so I could watch all of the planes come in and get some badass videos to Get my snapchat game strong. Which I did btw. I was able to hear the air boss at the show which was cool and was also able to hear the tower and emergency comms when the unfortunate Blue Angel #6 mishap occurred. Sometimes you cant hear Aircraft if theyre really far away but you can hear the tower talking to them. Other than that its not bad at all. Its got give or take a 20-25 mile Range. I dont fully understand all the capabilities of this thing yet but I guess Ill get there eventually.

Very nice scanner. I had an older Uniden scanner before for more than 10 years but it definitely bit the dust. It was used in the car with a plug-in charger and just kept going until the buttons and screen just gave out. With batteries, this one goes maybe a day or 2 at the most. Will look into the plug-in charger options as I use it more in the car than out in the field. Still early to tell about reliability but if it lasts like my old brick scanner, Ill be a happy camper. Another great experience using Amazon Warehouse Used-Like New for the buy.

This little scanner offers a lot of features at a decent price, and gives you the option of convenient portability. Not much to say, other than that it works like its supposed to. The only thing to keep in-mind, particularly if you are not already experienced with scanners, is that you will not get great range or reception with the included antenna. If you need range, be prepared to install and use a larger/outdoor antenna, which is not difficult to accomplish.

I love this scanner. I became the neighborhood captain and like to know what is going on around my area. I had an old scanner that worked great but had some issues with a beeping sound that interrupted the frequencies I was trying to listen to. I know Uniden makes great quality products so when I was looking for the new scanner I went straight for this brand. I am not disappointed. This scanner is very easy to program with the free computer program or even manually. There are 300 spaces to hold frequencies in. I dont think I will ever need that many but its nice to have. You can scan all the banks or just one. I believe this is a great quality scanner and very useful for my needs.

In the old days you could buy these and instantly be listening to emergency calls. This was difficult to learn and will not pick up the new digital signals (unless someone can show me otherwise). Returned

I bought this with the intention of listening to the ATC frequencies at the airports near me. I programmed all the frequencies into this so now it will scan through them automatically until one has a signal. I can also manually switch through them as well. It worked very well while I was at the airport and I was able to pick up everything I had programmed into it. Im still not entirely sure how to use this. I know there has to be a feature to manually key in a station, I either havent figured it out, or the channels I keyed in werent broadcasting at the time. I like it and think it works very well. It does take a little effort to set up, and your computer wont recognize it when its plugged in. When youre in the program on the computer to program the channels, theres a command to send the presets to the device. This works regardless of if the computer has recognized it or not. I also like that I can save the file with all the presets. Since I have other friends into plane spotting, I can send them the file with all the ORD frequencies programmed already.

The scanner works fine, as portable scanners go. However, after about 2 years, the display went wonky, so I can only see pieces of the numbers to know what channel a call is coming in on. Im a news reporter, so its helpful to know what agency is being called out to a situation. I was looking through here, thinking I would just buy a new one, when I saw that there is downloadable software that can be used to program the scanner! YAY! Except that its only for Windows, and I have all Apple products. So, unless youre on a Windows platform, dont get too excited about the software. Not sure why software for an analog scanner has conform to either windows or mac, since the scanner is clearly neither.

Regardless of a lot of the negative remarks about it, I gave it a try. I am extremely happy with it. I did complete the setup via PC and Internet. It was easy as could be. I would highly recommend this scanner to anyone looking for a reasonably priced hand held scanner. Also you can easily find the nondidgital repeter channels for any of the digital channels and it is only milliseconds lag time. Great buy I ordered the used item and it looked like it was never opened prior to me receiving it.

I purchased this for my Sisters Birthday. Unfortunately I ordered it in April. When she opened it yesterday on her Birthday May 30th, this will not work in our citys upgraded digital system. We are on the 700mhz digital system now and this only goes to 500mhz. My sister was a police officer and wanted a scanner to listen too calls. I am sure this is a nice scanner, but it will not work here in this Louisiana town. Please help not sure what to do now...

For the price, this thing works great. I am a rail enthusiast, and this thing works great for use in the car when Im out looking for trains. The only thing I will say to detract from it is that the antenna that comes with the unit is not the best for any one frequency range just because of the design. An antenna designed to pick up such a wide range of frequencies is just not going to receive as well as one cut specifically for that frequency. Id recommend investing in an antenna more specifically attuned to the frequencies youll be scanning, but other than that, this is an excellent little scanner for the price!