UnidenBearcat BCD160DN Handheld Digital Scanner, Exclusive Features, Band Scope Rapid System/Channel Number Tagging, Narrow-Band Reception, and Search Features to Detect Signals Faster Than Ever

Great little Scanner. DMR comes in loud and clear. Audio may sound a little muffled at times but I feel the Scan rate is good and it picks up frequencies pretty well! It is great for local Police,Fire,Air and Rail. HAM radio is also picked up well! It is easy to program also.

Must be programed to use it and the process is so confusing and loaded with BS that it would be better to buy a less expensive one that is preprogramed. There are services to program it but you have to pay a premium for the service.Junk, without programing and a lot of knowledge base needed to program yourself. NOT FOR BEGINNERS!

Good

Not programed

First off, I use commercial grade NXDN radios for my hobby and was quite surprised to see this from Uniden with NXDN capability right out of the box and a decent price. The good news is that "it works". I prefer to use Pro-Scan software rather than Uniden's as it will connect to my PC and do logging, etc. The scanner does have limited functions in that it will not decode incoming Radio ID's (OTAA) but for just listening to the calls it's pretty slick. The product listing on Amazon was pretty accurate. This is the kind of scanner you could program up and hand to a "non-radio user" and let them scan the bands to their heart's content. I haven't tried the base/mobile version yet, but the portable is a keeper.

This was given ad a gift. The person receiving the gift enjoyed it very much.

Many of the negative reviews left by some on this scanner are based on misunderstandings about its features. It is correctly marketed as an analog scanner that will also receive NXDN and DMR digital modes out of the box.If you need P25, this isn't the right scanner. If you need digital trunking reception, this isn't the right scanner. The product should not be penalized in reviews because the buyer didn't comprehend before they bought it whether its features would work for their needs.If you need a sensitive, well-thought-out scanner in a small package that receives both analog and some digital transmissions, the BCD160DN is a featured-packed scanner. It adds more features to the venerable BC125AT first introduced more than 10 years ago and still in production as of 2024. That was a very popular release that still holds up today, especially for air and railroad reception.The BCD160DN receives just as well as the BC125AT but is more future-proof with digital modes currently in widespread use, depending on what part of the U.S. you live. It does all the things it promises to do very well.

I had high hopes for this scanner, but was disappointed after receiving it and trying it out. There are 2-3 very specific frequencies I typically monitor in NYC, and this radio didn’t deliver. I put this unit side by side and tested with a non-Uniden product, and that other product was picking up everything, and this was hearing bits and pieces of transmissions, mostly cutting in and out. I hated to have to return this. I needed this specifically for the earphone jack, which my other unit doesn’t have. I guess I’ll keep searching.