BCT15X

Uniden's Premier Analog Trunktracker scanner with Dynamic Memory Architecture. Released Aug., 2009. This was a TrunkTracker III scanner with Motorola Control Channel Only trunking and I-Call monitoring. It has since been discontinued.

Bearcat BCT15X

Specifications

Physical

• BNC antenna connector
• Compatible with BC-RH96 Remote Head
• DIN-E and ISO Vehicle Mountable (optional)
• GPS Support for Location Based Scanning, location alerts, and crows-flight navigation
• LCD and Keypad Backlight
• Record Out - you can connect an output jack to a VOX controlled recorder or PC sound input to record the received audio.
• Reversible Display - Lets you reverse the display to mount unit upside down (and hear the speaker from the top)
• Signal Strength display
• Strong signal attenuation

Keys

• Group Quick Key range: 0-9
• 3 Quick-Access Search Keys
• Startup Keys: 10
• System Quick Key range: 0-99

Technical

• Channels: 9,000 maximum
• Channel Number Tagging: 999
• Channels per conventional system: 1000 maximum
• Custom Search - lets you program up to 10 search ranges
• Groups per system: 20 maximum
• PC Programming and Control
• Scan Rate: 100 channels per second (conventional mode)
• 12 Service Searches - Public Safety, News, HAM Radio, Marine, Railroad, Air, CB Radio, FRS/GMRS, Racing, FM Broadcast, Military Air, and Special (Itinerant)
• Sites: 1000 maximum, 256 maximum per system
• Supported step sizes: 5, 6.25, 7.5, 8.33, 10, 12.5,15, 20, 25, 50 or 100 kHz
• Systems: 500 maximum
• System Number Tagging: 999
• Talkgroups per trunked system: 500 maximum
• 500 (250 Temporary + 250 Permanent) Search Lockouts
• 16 character text tagging for each system, site, group, channel, talkgroup, search range, location, Tone-out, and SAME group

Frequency Coverage

• 25.0000 - 512.0000 MHz
• 758.0000 - 823.9875 MHz
• 849.0125 - 868.9875 MHz
• 894.0125 - 960.0000 MHz
• 1240.0000 - 1300.0000 MHz

Power Requirements

• Power requirements: AC Adapter (13.8V DC 750mA Regulated) (AD-1009 or equivalent).
• DC:11V to 16.6V(Ext.DC Power Jack or DC Power Jack)
• Power plug: 5.5mm outer diameter, 2.1mm inner diameter

Features

• Adjustable Hold (scan duration 0-255 sec) per system, custom or service search
• Alert Mute - silences all alerts
• Alert Plus - silences the scanner except for channels that have assigned alerts
• BearTracker
• Broadcast Screen while searching (TV and radio station frequencies, pagers, etc) with 10 custom bands
• Close Call, with Close Call Do Not Disturb, Close Call Priority (or Primary), and Close Call Temporary Store.
• DCS/CTCSS Rapid Decode
• Duplicate Channel Alert
• Fire Tone Out Alert
• Frequency/ID AutoStore - automatically store frequencies from a service or limit search into a conventional system or store talk group IDs into a trunked system
• Independent Alert Tone Volume – lets you set the volume level of the following tones: Key Beep, Emergency Alert, Channel Alert, and Close Call Alert.
• Location Based Scanning
• Multi-Site support
• Quick Search
• Priority Scan
• Repeater Reverse
• Search with Scan for Service and Custom Searches with assigned Quick Keys
• Startup Configuration
• Temporary System, Site, Group, Channel, and Location Lockout
• Upgradeadable firmware
  • Can be updated to support Rebanding? YES
  • This scanner supports rebanding with firmware already installed. See the Updating the Firmware in Uniden DMA Scanners article for the firmware link
• Weather Operations
• Wired Cloning (Will only Clone to another BCT15X only)

Changes from the BCT15

• Adjustable Band defaults
• Adjustable Priority check interval
• Band Scope
• Control Channel Data Output
• EDACS ESK support
• Fire Tone Out Search - built-in frequency counter displays the received tones.
• Independent GPS Control of Sites and Channel Groups (vs. Systems and Sites)
• Individual channel volume offset
• Intermediate Frequency Exchange
• Key Lock Mode - lets you hand the scanner to a novice user and prevent programming from being modified.
• Number Tags allows you to quickly navigate to a specific Favorites List, System, and/or Channel.
• Negative Channel dropout delay (forced resume) adjustable to 0-2,5,10,30, -2, -5, -10 seconds
• Preemptive Priority on Motorola analog systems
• Priority ID Scan on trunked systems
• Private Systems - lets you flag a system so that it cannot be read out of the scanner or modified.
• Unit IDs (Requires Firmware 1.03)

RR System Compatibility

This scanner is compatible with the following Trunking System Types and System Voices used in the RadioReference Database, of course you must verify that the scanner will cover the appropriate frequency range:

• System Types:
  • Motorola Type I
  • Motorola Type II
  • Motorola Type IIi Hybrid
  • Motorola Type II Smartnet
  • Motorola Type II Smartzone
  • Motorola Type II Smartzone Omnilink
  • Motorola Type II VOC
  • EDACS Standard (Wide)
  • EDACS Standard Networked
  • EDACS Narrowband (Narrow)
  • EDACS Narrowband Networked
  • EDACS SCAT
  • EDACS ESK (not ProVoice)
  • LTR Standard

• System Voices:
  • Analog

Reviews and User Opinions

• EHam Reviews of the BCT15X

Related Pages

External Links

• FCC certification page
• Uniden USB-1 page on Scanner Master
• Easier to Read BCT15-X Scanner Manual
• Uniden BCT-15 and BCT-15X Teardown & Other Data

Related Wiki Articles

• Programming Your Uniden Scanner
• Uniden Scanners
• Uniden Scanner Comparison

Forum Threads

• Advanced System Identification feature Thread

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