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 enlarge | Brand: Uniden
Category: CE
List Price: $249.99
Buy New: $189.99
You Save: $60.00 (24%)
New (15) from $189.99
Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 9004
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 8
Dimensions (in): 15 x 5 x 11
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: BC898T
Model: BC898T
UPC: 050633650370
EAN: 0050633650370
ASIN: B0002QIBOE
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Monitors Delight May 12, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The 500 channels provide more than enough space for even the busiest areas. The CTCSS/DCS feature is great for filtering out the unwanted frequencies. The good part about this feature was that it would scan this as well as the frequency, so even if you know a frequency, you can scan for the tone (which is most always harder to get.)
Too bad that Uniden didn't package the software with the scanner (about $30 from their site). For the price, I would have thought they would have kicked in for the software and the cable (about $4 at most electronic stores.)
Had most all the features I was looking for, and the price wasn't that bad either. I'd recommend this for just about anyone.
 Good buy for the $$$ March 8, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
All its cracked up to be and then some. Pretty good manual, although I found a programming shortcut using Google. I bought a dipole antenna and it did improve the reception significantly. Weather alert programming is dead easy too.
Yes, I'd buy it again.
Great First Scanner February 14, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I know that there is only a bad review so I had to write this. This is a great first scanner. It is very sensitive, picks up all calls from across town and does most of what you want. alpha tagging would be great, but you can do that with a software package, no biggie. I got this because I wanted a scanner for home use, not mobile use, I didn't want anything with batteries. This fit the bill. You find out a lot about truncked systems and this thing picks all of them up. Very Highly recommended
 Factory Defect It doesn't hold it's mode December 2, 2005
15 out of 25 found this review helpful
I bought one programmed it. This is my 4th Trunk Traker so I now my area system and uniden scanners inside and out. I set it to track trunks and left it on. The next morning it was doing a conventional scan. It just can't track trunk for a long period of time which makes it useless for recording. Or anything else for that matter. Uniden makes great stuff but this model just got goofed up.
Scanners need to be reliable. This one ain't!
This is from another person who tested this model
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Bad News Right Out of the Box ! CTCSS/DCS failure.
With the sample I purchased the CTCSS/DCS function failed to function after about 8 hours of operation. Worked fine until then. Regular signals continued to be received OK even after the channels that had CTCSS/DCS on them went sour.
The real stinker is if I powered off the receiver and then back on, "boom" it would all work again. But only for another 8 hours or so. It again died again after the same time peroid.
I was not the only person reporting this issue with the BC898T either on these first units. For some owners it has been reported that the problem took as long as 3 weeks to show up.
After talking to Uniden's "so called" customer service twice on the phone for a couple of "run-a-rounds", I was told to send my sample back to Uniden (Ft.Worth Texas) and about a month later it was returned with new firmware installed (U1.29).
This indeed cleared up the problem, but this also proves that the set DID NOT receive enough beta testing before it was placed on the market, leaving many owners TOTALLY in the dark and in a nasty mood (including me) !!
Real "Line Audio Output" that Almost Work's Right.
The LINE OUT jack is now a real line out. Unlike the BC890 and 895 that were not (just a attenuated speaker output). Volume control does NOT affect the line output on the BC898T. Toggled for each channel with Line button for use with VOX tape recorders. No more relay "remote" jack.
The down side is that there is a NASTY lag time that can be about 2 SECONDS once the squelch is broken before the "line" jack has any audio. So you can miss up to the first 2 seconds on a tape recording. Great that they have a real line out now, but this excessive delay is a worst nasty I think. Also it's bit hissy (as the receiver can be anyway) and the line output level is on the light side with a little pop every time the squelch is broken.
I'm told that the BC898T is using the same "Triple conversion" receiver layout as the old BC895XLT. So that should make the first IF around 380.7 or 254.4 Mhz, 58.075 Mhz for the second and the 455 khz on the 3rd ??
I was not the only person reporting this issue with the BC898T either on these first units. For some owners it has been reported that the problem took as long as 3 weeks to show up.
After talking to Uniden's "so called" customer service twice on the phone for a couple of "run-a-rounds", I was told to send my sample back to Uniden (Ft.Worth Texas) and about a month later it was returned with new firmware installed (U1.29).
This indeed cleared up the problem, but this also proves that the set DID NOT receive enough beta testing before it was placed on the market, leaving many owners TOTALLY in the dark and in a nasty mood (including me) !!
Real "Line Audio Output" that Almost Work's Right.
The LINE OUT jack is now a real line out. Unlike the BC890 and 895 that were not (just a attenuated speaker output). Volume control does NOT affect the line output on the BC898T. Toggled for each channel with Line button for use with VOX tape recorders. No more relay "remote" jack.
The down side is that there is a NASTY lag time that can be about 2 SECONDS once the squelch is broken before the "line" jack has any audio. So you can miss up to the first 2 seconds on a tape recording. Great that they have a real line out now, but this excessive delay is a worst nasty I think. Also it's bit hissy (as the receiver can be anyway) and the line output level is on the light side with a little pop every time the squelch is broken.
I'm told that the BC898T is using the same "Triple conversion" receiver layout as the old BC895XLT. So that should make the first IF around 380.7 or 254.4 Mhz, 58.075 Mhz for the second and the 455 khz on the 3rd ??
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