Uniden BC350A Review
The Basics:
| Channels |
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| Banks |
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| Coverage |
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| Scan |
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| Conversion |
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| Priority Channels |
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| Search Skip |
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| Delay |
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| Lock-out |
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| Weather |
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Construction:
The BC350A is built for mobile use. It consists of a metal case
with plastic on the front and rubber buttons. It is built to a perfect
small size for mobile use. The speaker faces
down like most C.B.'s which is good for mobile but as a desktop scanner, the sound gets
muffled.
Performance:
This scanner survived riding with me in the car for several years with
out any problem. It wasn't as sensitive as my BC210XLT but did a
pretty good job. I used it with the Radio-Shack magnet mount scanner
antenna which made for a perfect pair. The antenna that comes with it that
attaches to your windshield is junk! The sound was fine and the interference
rejection was ok. I did not like how you had to program the scanner
by searching through frequencies to get the frequency you wanted. The display worked for
where I had it mounted in the car, under the dash.
My 2 cents:
This scanner did just fine for me in the car when ever I wanted to
listen. It was limited in the number of programmed channels but had special banks
where PD, Fire, etc where factory programmed in. That was fine but
I like to program my own things in. I kept this scanner until I moved
from Illinois to Indiana where scanners in cars are illegal not unless
your a licensed HAM operator and most of the stuff over here is 800 mhz
and the BC350a doesn't cover that band. The scanner wasn't all that good
when used as a desktop because the speaker fired down where as in the car it
didn't sound bad. I used this scanner for many years in the car and
it still worked fine and looked like new when I sold it.
I paid around 130 bucks for the BC350a in 1993 and sold it for 60 in
1998.
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