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I highly recommend buying the frequency channells for your area. Not a bad scanner for the money. Over all it's a good scanner. Radio Shack has stop selling the national frequency book but you can still find them on the net. Easy to program. Still need lots to learn on how to use the trunking mode and other feactures.
Only drawback is no alphanumerics, so you can't program the "name" of the frequency. Very easy to program. This is a good product at a fair price. Excellent scanner. The built-in speaker is rather good for a scanner.
Would order from again forsure This was the exact product ordered. Was very pleased that the original box was packed in a generic cardboard box with paper around it which kept the original box in perfect shape.
A very powerful scanner with just about everything you need in today's RF world. All functions as advertised.
I should've paid closer attention to William "Macintosh Gamer's" negative comment about the BC898T's Line-Out feature, in that it clips off the first couple of seconds of each & every transmission that's received. Does that mean that it was manufactured in 2003. But I'm unable to use this scanner for this purpose now, so it's going back for an exchange.I read R. Mason mentioned that his model was from 2004, and has since rectified the problem by exchanging it with a new one manufactured in 2006.
I just hope that the BCT15 that I want to exchange this for doesn't have the same problem.Other than that, it's a pretty decent unit. 5 years ago. The firmware in my unit, incidentally, is U1.29Amazon's return/exchange policy is fantastic, and I thank them for that. Just don't plan on placing it above eye-level, because the LCD's contrast is such that you won't be able to read the display. However, I'm going to lose close to $100 in shipping & duty charges to & from here (Bermuda), but I have no choice as this model of scanner is totally & 100% useless to me. Also as he mentions, that "pop" becomes quite annoying.I purhcased this scanner solely for the purpose of providing an Internet feed from it.
A distinct possibility, as this scanner is plagued with the same problems mentioned by William. At eye-level and even 45° above it's very readable, though.I've only programmed in 10 frquencies of the VHF and UHF Aircraft bands into 1 memory bank, so I haven't tried anything else & can't comment on them. Mason's comment about this (and other) problems having been rectified now with serial numbers beginning with 6 (and above I assume), which indicates that those scanners were manufactured in 2006.What puzzles me is, R. Well, here we are in 2008, and my brand new scanner that I received from Amazon yesterday has a serial number beginning with 3.
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