Uniden Bearcat 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.

Came with a coupon to send it in for upgrade to nxdn. I don't know if it needs more done to it, but the ad says it is supposed to be ready out of the box.Unnecessarily, overly complicated to program. Poor reception.Charging/battery state system clunky. No charger included either. Just a cable for an older style USB.Poor to no NDXN implementation and documentation. Could not pick up anything either in search mode or programming with proscan. If it has NDXN capabilities out of the box it did not produce it for me.Reception of standard stations was adequate to inferior to my old radio. I did receive 1... 1 station plus the weather channel. Yet the price was double and did not get me any better capabilities.I am disappointed with the purchase. I don't know how other radio users feel about the price point, but this was a premium price for me for a far less than premium scanner.I'm going back to decades old scanners that simply work better even though they predate ndxn .Not only that, but there will be a huge delay in a refund being issued (nearly a month) because this is secretly a third party seller.

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.