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Popular Software for RS/Uniden Scanners

When you are a newcomer, and want to use software to program and/or back up the contents of your scanner, the natural question is 'which is the best'? While it's always true that the 'best' software is in the eye of the user, generally speaking there are some packages that are much more popular than others.

Scancat Lite Plus has been visible for awhile now, and it's used in some RS stores to program scanners they sell. However, as documented on several occasions in the various RR forums, it's not the best choice, in most cases. This article lists the most popular packages, by scanner, in use by RR members. In general, the most popular choices tend to support connecting to the RadioReference database and downloading data directly. To enable this function you must have a premium subscription which you can read about in the link.

Those packages that have this ability are shown in bold. If no other packages exist to support this scanner, there will be no entry. Be sure to read the notes at the bottom of each section.

Contents 1 Radio Shack 1.1 Notes 2 Uniden 2.1 Notes

[edit] Radio Shack

Scanner	Software
Pro-64	ProLink
Pro-76	ProLink
Pro-79	ProLink
Pro-82	ProLink
Pro-83	ARC83	Load83
Pro-84	ARC83	Load83
Pro-89	ProLink
Pro-92	Win92
Pro-93	Win93
Pro-94
Pro-95	Win95
Pro-96	Win96
Pro-97	Win97
Pro-99	Win99
Pro-137
Pro-163	Win97
Pro-164	Win97
Pro-433	ARC433
Pro-528	ARC433
Pro-2017	ProLink
Pro-2019
Pro-2041	ProLink
Pro-2051	ARC433
Pro-2052	Scan Control
Pro-2053	Win93
Pro-2054
Pro-2055	Win97
Pro-2067	Win92
Pro-2096	Win96

[edit] Notes

• For the PRO-94 listing - only the B version is PC programmable
• Win97 also provides limited programming support for the GRE PSR-300 and PSR-400.
• ARC83 is available from the BuTel homepage. BuTel software is available from Scanner Master.

[edit] Uniden

Non DMA Scanners

Scanner	Software
BC95XLT	ARC95
BC245XLT	Scan Control
BC250D	ARC250	ProScan	Scan Control
BC296D	ARC250	ProScan	Scan Control
BC780XLT	ARC780	ProScan	Scan Control
BC785D	ARC250	ProScan	Scan Control
BC796D	ARC250	ProScan	Scan Control
BC895XLT	Scan Control
BC898T	ARC898	Scan Control
BCT8	ARC8	Scan Control

DMA Scanners

Scanner	Software
BC246T	ARC246	UASD	BcTool	Freescan	Scan Control
BCD396T	ARC396	UASD	BcTool	Freescan	Scan Control
BCD996T	ARC996	UASD	BcTool	Freescan	Scan Control	ProScan
BCT15	ARC15	UASD	BcTool	Freescan	Scan Control
BR330T	ARC330	UASD	BcTool	Freescan	Scan Control
SC230	ARC Sport	UASD	BcTool	Freescan	Scan Control
UBC3500XLT	ARC3500	Scan Control	BcTool

[edit] Notes

• ScanControl software supports 16 different Uniden scanners, all in one program. It has the ability to directly copy/paste data from the database into an editor without an external program such as Excel
• The UASD (Uniden Advanced System Director) for each scanner is available from the Uniden downloads area.
• ARC software with no link is available from the BuTel homepage. BuTel software is available from Scanner Master.
• The SC230 is a non trunking scanner-only conventional data is supported