help with scanner purchase
 

I'm new this scanner stuff and was wondering if anyone could help me
out with buying a scanner? I'm looking at the uniden bc278clt, is this
an ok model for a beginner? what are the pros and cons of this model?
What can this model pick up?

Thanks in advance,
Chris

Chris wrote in message . ..

I'm looking at the uniden bc278clt....

Someone asked about this scanner at Strong Signals last month. I'm
taking the liberty of cutting and pasting the reply here.


Nice radio. Technically a desktop, but you can run it off a car
battery. ... I use the BC278CLT both as a desktop scanner and as a
mobile scanner, but now when it's in the car, I run it off a 9 volt
regulated DC power apapter plugged into the car cigarette lighter.
The BC278CLT has been reviewed [at strong Signals]. Its claim to fame
(at least to me) was that, when it was discontinued at Best Buy two
years ago, it sold for absurdly low prices - like, under thirty
dollars. Strong Signals listers were driving miles and miles to scoop
them up. Sorry, but those units are long gone.


Strong Signals BC278CLT thread
http://www.strongsignals.net/access/...sage&num=13937

Uniden BC278CLT review at Strong Signals
http://www.strongsignals.net/access/...recv&num= 033
or
http://tinyurl.com/ycnc

BC278CLT Owner's Manual, from Uniden Website, in .pdf format
http://www.uniden.com/pdf/BC278CLTom.pdf

The 278 has AM, FM, SAME weather alert, air band, and 800MHz. It makes
a terrific mobile scanner, as the display is always lighted. It is
good and loud too. What I would like most on it is a lighted keypad,
as cellphones have.

The person who wrote that reply at Strong Signals, "blair," left his
email address there, so you can write him directly.