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

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.

This is a great desktop scanner at a good price. Quite easy to program and use. I own other police scanners and this one has the best sound quality.

Been 6 months now since giving this out (2) Christmas gifts. My sons both commented how much they enjoy listening to scanner at night. Got online and printed off police/fire codes so when they say, 12-4 all is good or code 3 lights and sirens. They love the Uniden Scanners when power goes out, scanner also has battery back up so you dont lose the frequency numbers

I feel Im very capable of learning new things especially tech. But this bad boy was difficult to use. Zero intuitive. I was following the booklet and trying to do some things and when Id push some of the buttons it would not do what it should have according according the booklet. So naturally I tried again and again. I couldnt even get fm stations to work. Needless to say Im returning it.

This was exactly what we wanted. Being a firemans wife, I like to be able to hear the calls he goes on to know hes safe, get an idea of how things are going to plan for things like dinner or other activities in case hes going to be delayed, and its somewhat entertaining to hear some of the crazy stuff you hear with police communications.

I need to find out the codes for my area so I can use it for rescue and police.

Got this for my dad for Christmas as his other one died, I programmed It before I gave it to him. Simple to program/setup. He said that is the best one he has had, loud and clear speaker, smaller antenna which I was worried about picking up channels as we are about 14 miles from town, but he says he gets them all.

A great update to replace my old realistic Scanners Easy to program many many features I especially like the battery back up when the power goes out during storms I still receive my emergency services calls for hours and hours In fact, I purchased two additional scanners after I tried the first one I now have a total of three

once we were able to program the system it worked fine. We had to pay someone to program it, sounds easy until you try to do it.

Easy to use just find the frequency/numbers for your county select PGM/ENTER youll see PGM on the screen then just put the numbers in and hit PGM/ENTER again that channel will be all set to scan and listen to ..put multiple frquencys/numbers in by repeating the same steps when your all done press scan...does not work just pluging it in and turning on.This scanner best Ive ever owned well Worth the $