Talk:BCT8
Help! I am new at this!!! Trunk Tracking... I have a Bearcat8 scanner and I can not figure out how to program in trunked freq's. I live in Ohio and I ran a search on Cuyahoga county systems for the city of Parma... but I can not get it to work. What do I do??? Please lend some help.
Thanks
Gordon
Gordon: Jump on over to the forums on the main board; particularly the Uniden and Ohio state forums.
They're much more likely to be able to help (ka3jjz - wiki admin)
[edit] BCT8 User Reviews
Added: February 3rd 2004
Reviewer: Zach
Score: 4 stars
Hits: 1126
I bought this scanner just before Christmas. I'm new to the whole scanning/trunking and such,
but i must say this scanner isnt too shabby. Its cheaper than some scanners that do somewhat of the same things
(to my understanding). Anyway, the scanner has nice step by step instructions to programming frequencies.
Nice display, comes with the telescoping antenna and the covert antenna. The front display is easy to read,
all the buttons light up, with the exception of a few like the L/O one. Nothing like driving and catching a
stupid talkgroup and trying to find the L/O button. I've mounted this in my vehicle, and even if its sitting on
the seat, its nice crisp and loud. The only downside the the programming (sometimes) Uniden has their software
for $39 or something. The demo software only lets you program 1 bank out of 5. Needless to say I bought the full
software, and its made programming 10 times easier. All in all this is a good trunking scanner in my opinion.
Does what I need it to do so i'm happy!
Posted by Anonymous on 2005-02-12 15:46:53
My Score: 5 stars
Have about 8 scanners at this point, needed a second TrunkTracker small enough to fit in my Jeep which is loaded
with commecial and Ham gear. This was about the only choice. I was put off by the preprogrammed stuff but since I
was looking for just two channels to trunk two EDACS systems I decided it was no big deal.
What a surprise. This radio has great sensitivity, selectivity and audio. Even the darn preprogrammed stuff for
Massachusetts works great. This is a teriffic Trunk scanner and is up there with my 780xlt just a smaller case.
Look hard, might find one at $160.00 USD great value.
K1WVU
Posted by ward8vfd on 2005-01-26 22:08:30
My Score: 5 stars
i love this scanner, by the way; i dunno whats wring with yours but all my buttons are backlit including
the l/o button, u might wanna send it back if ur still under warranty.
Posted by sem351 on 2005-01-05 23:41:44
My Score: 5 stars
Great scanner for the price. This is my second scanner which I up graded from a BC0xlt-1 hand held.
The BCT-8 has a lot of features and has many preprogrammed frequencies. The display is easy to read and it is
easy to program in frequencies of your own interest. Nice scanner and I hope to use it for a long time.
Posted by KD4JAF on 2004-10-30 11:25:53
My Score: 4.5 stars
This is a very nice trunk scanner minus the WFM. Very easy to understand the book and program. However if you need
to do a complete reset of this scanner don't look in the manual or search the internet cause you won't find it.
I'll save you the time of calling Uniden...complete reset is, turn scanner off, press and hold the 2, 9 and HWY(STATE)
buttons then turn the scanner back on. Scanner should be all clear and reset.
Posted by radio-man on 2004-02-13 12:29:53
My Score: 4 stars
I just bought my BCT-8 at the Miami Hamfest on February 7th. Since I haven't had it too long, it may be too
early to tell much about it but you know what they say about first impressions: I like it!! It seems to work quite
well with very few birdies!!
[edit] IDTracker comments
User: Vibroplex Rating: 9 January 5, 2006
User's Average Rating: 9.0 # of Ratings: 1
This programs in my humble opinion deserves a 10 - but having never had any program of a ten as a base point it get's a nine. A great program, ease of use and functional.
User: wbigcount Rating: 8 November 28, 2005
User's Average Rating: 8.0 # of Ratings: 1
Sometimes when u try to id a talk group and the press ok it goes back to no id on the talk group.
User: Hir8ed_2 Rating: 9 November 8, 2005
User's Average Rating: 9.0 # of Ratings: 2
I believe this software would work with any Trunking radio, as long as you have VB 6.0 or higher installed in Windows.
User: monitoringpost Rating: 9 April 15, 2004
User's Average Rating: 9.0 # of Ratings: 1
An excellent utility leaving only the imagination of the user on how one can exploit its many uses. Rated a nine as v2.9.0 is supposedly the last version to support the BC245xlt - hopefully support will be restored and it'll get 10 stars.
User: pro92b Rating: 10 April 2, 2004
User's Average Rating: 10.0 # of Ratings: 1
Excellent for identifying unknown talkgroups
User: mdc76082 Rating: 9 December 21, 2003
User's Average Rating: 9.0 # of Ratings: 1
You all did a good job. Alot of these guys & gals expect too much when it comes to software and instructions. If I can muddle around with it and get the hang of it then any of these prissy prisses should be able to also. And I am by far the smartest guy on the planet. Thanks for the use of the software. - Mike (Springtown TX)
User: bear105 Rating: 8 September 18, 2003
User's Average Rating: 7.0 # of Ratings: 5
Clean and simple makes it very effective. I would give it a 10, if it would update the ID ALPHA tags on the scanner itself.
User: b7spectra Rating: 9 May 21, 2003
User's Average Rating: 9.0 # of Ratings: 1
Excellent for capturing audio for those unknown channels/talk groups. Documentation could be better.
User: N4RVR Rating: 9 February 16, 2003
User's Average Rating: 9.0 # of Ratings: 1
Wish it had help built-in, but for the price, who's complaining? Excellent program that does what it's supposed to with no muss, no fuss. Packs a lot of features and works well with Windows XP. Great resource for those of us who own TrunkTrackers.
User: jsmcnicol Rating: 1 July 8, 2002
User's Average Rating: 1.0 # of Ratings: 1
I could never get this working even though all of my other trunking programs worked. Dose NOT work for Pro-1053. Download did not say you had to have the certen scanners listed in the notes.
User: blantonl Rating: 10 July 6, 2002
User's Average Rating: 9.5 # of Ratings: 2
Outstanding Application!
