BearTracker

BearTracker™ Warning System

A Uniden trademarked feature usable on a small number of scanning radio models. It is also known as Highway Patrol Scanning and Highway Patrol Alert.

The most recent definition from UNIDEN is:

BearTracker™ Warning System - Alerts you to activity on Highway Patrol link frequencies to let you know if there is activity within about 3 miles of your location.

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The first radio to receive this feature was the BCT7 which came out in 1994. Then the BCT10 in 1995, the BCT12 in 1996 and later the BCT8 in 2003. In 2006 the next radio to carry the feature is called the BCT15 (due to be released this summer).

The radio was preprogrammed to scan the highway patrol frequencies of the individual states. The frequencies that it would alert on was usually mobile extender frequencies or mobile repeater frequencies. These frequencies, while active, would usually indicate the presence of a Highway Patrol officer. Because the scanner tended to give the operator the location of a nearby officer many of the users thought of the unit as a form of radar detector. Hence the design of the BCT10 and the BCT12 units that do look like a Radar detector.