Uniden BCT15 BearTracker Mobile Tracking Scanner with GPS Support (Black)

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4 x 9 x 13 inches ; 8.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000GLW3TO
• Item model number: BCT-15
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #26,217 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)

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• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 3, 2006

Product Description

Product Description
UNIDEN BEARTRACKER W/

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm buying another, September 3, 2007

By	E. Radda "Wellsville" (Wellsville, KS USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've owned scanners for the last 30 years. This is by far the best one I've ever had. It's incredibly powerful. I purchased it for my home as I've got a handheld BCT-245 in my truck. It's reception is so much better than the BCT-245 I'm going to buy another one of these for my truck.

Don't try to manually program it. Get some software off the internet (I use ARC, which interfaces with an online site) and in just a few minutes you're all programmed and ready to go!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Great scanner Worst than poor customer service, March 17, 2008

By	John Lichak "John and Bonnie Lichak" (Nassau Ny) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I just recently upgraded my 3 other uniden scanners. I really like the BCT15 but it is somewhat complicated. So of course I needed to buy the director software that makes programming easier thru your computer. The uniden web site I felt was misleading because what I ended up buying was a registration key... not software for $29 dollars. You have to download the software then use the key. Well to this day I have not been able to download it. (Vista) I emailed uniden customer support (which takes them 3 days to respond) so that game went on for awhile. I then was on the phone for over a hour trying for a refund! Which they will not do because they are not sure whether you did download or not! When customer service finally put a guy named Josh on the phone and he told me he would burn me a disk and send it out right away I was happy. The disk never came and they claim they know no Josh. Nightmare.... say the least!

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A novice's outlook, May 22, 2007

By	Moonseal (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This is my first scanner. I got it to monitor traffic on a Motorola Type II system mixed with some APCO 25. I've managed to program in the channels (talk ID's) I need, but this scanner is way over my head. I'm not able to maintain continuity with a specific channel because it keeps scanning the entire channel bank. I realize that this is the purpose of a scanner, but I'm unable to follow traffic in a logical order. This is not the fault of the scanner, it's because I'm a novice and I suspect because of the system I'm trying to listen in on. Hence the 4 stars: Uniden really should put a little more effort into the manual. There are so many alerts to set on this thing that it took me 3 days to figure out and unprogram the alerts which were interfering with traffic. Now, in a perfect scenario, I would appreciate the Beartracker, etc. Someday. Meanwhile, I have great admiration for this scanner but am on a steep learning curve.