Uniden BC365CRS 500 Channel Scanner and Alarm Clock with Snooze, Sleep, and FM Radio with Weather Alert, Search Bands Commonly used for Police, Fire/EMS, Aircraft, Radio, and Marine Transmissions

For openers, the audio quality could be improved. My handheld sounds better and even has a larger speaker. That speaker is tiny. Dont complain about no trunking capability. You get what you pay for! Trunking scanners normally cost $300-$500. For about the $60 you pay, dont expect digital or trunking. The BNC antenna falls down, unless you have the antenna horizontal. The bayonet slots should have been alligned differently to allow the antenna to stand up on its own. There are very good memory banks for scanning (10 banks x 50) channels. The FM radio has 3 banks x 10. This leads me to ask about why is FM even a feature? I suppose since the scanner covers those frequencies, it may as well include the in-between band. It does have a broad range of frequencies. Given the sound quality, I doubt anyone would want to hear music. I can understand including NOAA Weather; but FM? Why the clock-radio functionality? Im not sure I want to wake up to reports of an MVA on the freeway with possible casualties. IDK. As I mentioned before, it covers a broad range: HF,VHF,UHF. 10 Meters,6 Meters, FM, Air, 2 Meters, 70 centimeters, GMRS, police, fire,EMS,Business land mobile, marine, MURS. Heck it even covers cordless phones and baby monitors! Good fast scan time. The manual isnt well written. I had to re-read it many times. Dont complain about frequencies not pre-programmed. How can any seller or manufacturer know what area anyone will use it? Impossible. Hint: Use the FCC ULS database search to find frequencies you want. (FCC.GOV) Bottom line: You get what you pay for. PS: Dont you DARE use the antenna to transmit! In the first place the connector is not a true BNC connector. It just looks like a BNC. It wont twist-lock onto a real BNC. Secondly the SWR is BAD BAD BAD it gave me a 5.1 to 1 ratio. That kind of SWR will fry your transmitter finals. Just use it for the scanner. I was hoping to share the antenna for 2 meters with the scanner as the receiver and a 5 watt QRP transmitter going into an antenna switch. Bad idea.

This particular Uniden scanner unit is a winner. Very easy to program with strong dynamic sound. Once set up for local fire and police it will run for years. A great scanner for beginners.

Nice product just a little difficult to program

The scanner is a little hard to program at first, but once you get used to it, it goes well. Great product!

Speaker is very poor. Over priced for what you get

Nice unit but the seller does not include code numbers to run the scanner.

for the bedroom or living room as a secondary analog scanner, it works great. I have an SDS100, BCT15 and use SDR on the computer with a discone in the attic and this little radio/clock scanner with the stock telescopic antenna is picking up analog channels as good if not better than my other scanners. great little scanner for the family to use and listen too. Sound quality in the internal speaker isnt great, has a tinny sound but overall i like it. If you still have local analog stuff to listen too, (our FD and close other counties simulcast dispatch to analog) Then this thing is still a good little scanner. programming is a little clunky has to be done by hand on the scanner, i dont think you can program on a computer.

I liked everything about the scanner - like tone ,selectivity ,uniden got all of the things in common in one sector . I think I am a genius ( my girlfriend thinks i am a genius) , but I still havent learned the skills of programming it yet . Ive watched videos , read the instructions and I feel like I am unlearned and experimented with it -but to no avail .I would recommend this to my friends .

If my local law enforcement used analog radio, but unfortunately, everyone here I found out later is now using digital systems. Everyone that is except for one county sheriff dispatcher about 9 miles away, and she comes in crystal clear. I think this scanner would have worked very well for me here, 20 years ago...