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

easy to set up and program, nice size

Works great once you get it programmed

I inadvertently left a bad review for this scanner... The message was supposed to be for a hummingbird feeder I had bought... The scanner arrived as stated in the description... The scanner was shipped the day after payment was made and arrived when I was told it would be... Could not be happier with the scanner and the customer service...

Small size but still loaded with some great extra features. For anyone just getting into using a regular scanner or a back-up ... this is your winner! Comes with a small antenna but still receives most signals you will want to hear and add an outdoor antenna later. Complete with AC wall power supply and a small user manual. Scanner case is plastic with touch button controls and an orange glow back lighted display which is easy to see in most lighting. Receiver is very good for Hi-band VHF, Weather, Fire, Police and EMS. Lo-band VHF and UHF were good but not the quality of Hi-band VHF. Radio has Alarm Clock and FM radio with a 3-cell AA battery backup for clock. Channels say in memory even with no AC power and do not need battery backup. Scanner is medium level easy to program for a newbie but one must read the user manual first and no computer is needed for use. Using the scanner can be a small learning curve of two to four hours of hands on use. This is one nice scanner to hear the latest whats happening in my local area now. Anyone wanting a good scanner this is the one to buy! I will follow - up post later.

Happy with product

Great reception and pretty easy to set up. It gets good reception with the stock antenna, but I hooked it up to my j-pole that I have optimized for GMRS/UHF ham. WOW it is getting in 70+ channels on 2meter, airband and of course 440+... Weather radio and FM are both great too. I wish there was a way to just turn a knob to tune FM but no big deal. It seems to be of good quality, nice knobs and buttons, has battery backup, and Im now using it as my alarm clock. The sound isnt bad for a small speaker and its LOUD. Great for the price I could not be happier. For someone who wants to get into scanning this puppy is a great inexpensive way to start.

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.

The stock antenna is on the left. The after market antenna on the right increased my reception big time. It just wobbles from side to side. Lean it to the window. This scanner blows my old Radio Shack scanner away. Picks up more channels. Bettet squelch. More banks. More pre programed frequency.Outstanding unit!!!

Decent scanner, but not very easy to program. The instructions are not clear at all. I ended up returning it.

I liked it a lot but ended up giving it away about the second time we had a bad weather system come through and it woke me up in the middle of the night, (and Im sure the people who live upstairs as well) with an alarm that sounded between an air raid alarm and a tornado siren. It is definitely loud enough you cannot sleep through it, but doesnt do a whole lot of good if it causes a heart attack. The kids I gave it to like it and they agree it is loud, but they find that aspect funny. They are young enough to be my grandchildren.