Construction: The BC895XLT is constructed with a metal case with a plastic face and rubber and plastic buttons.
The radio has a professional feel and look to it. When you first turn on this radio on, the
display lights ups and looks great. You can also adjust the light with a dimmer switch. The manual is easy to understand with step
by step instructions on how to program and use the radio for all it has to offer.
Performance: As soon as I turned this scanner on, I knew it was a winner. It's easy to program (the trunked part can get
tricky) and easy to use. The sound is just fine with good tones all around and plenty of volume.
This radio out performs any other scanner I have with it's interference rejection and good reception.
My 2 cents: This radio is a winner! It's easy to use, sounds good, can trunk track Motorola 800 MHz systems, and has a ton of options like
a computer controlled interface, weather alert, an S meter, selectable step sizes, CTCSS decoding and search, auto store, VFO knob,
and tape recorder control. This radio just about has it all.
I paid around 220 bucks for this scanner new and would do it again if the wife let me. There are only a couple things I would
add to future radios and that would be Alpha tags and scanning a trunked system and regular frequencies at the same time.
This radio can be confusing for the first time scanner user but I would recommend it to anyone.
Future radio?: The BC895XLT is a great radio but I'd like to see Uniden build one better...I would like to see the BC895XLT with
these added things: Alpha Tags, multi trunk and conventional frequencies like the BC245,
selectable attenuator for each channel, SAME weather alert, selectable delay settings of no delay, 2 second delay or 5 second
delay for each channel and when changing from each trunked bank (the BC245 has a set 5 second delay that sucks!),
400 channels with 40 channels per bank, GE/Ericsson trunk along with Motorola, 100+ search lock outs,
25 mhz - 1,300 mhz, service search for PD, Fire, RR, Marine, Air, and HAM, Last but not least, the radio should
comes with the computer cable...If Uniden made one of these and sold it for 299.95, I'd buy one. One other thing that would be
nice would be two different antenna connections, one for 800 mhz and the other for the other frequencies...
