Uniden BCD436HP HomePatrol Series Digital Handheld Scanner. TrunkTracker V, Simple Programming, S.A.M.E. Emergency/Weather Alert, Covers USA and Canada
$540.00
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Price: $540.00
(as of Sep 06, 2024 20:59:35 UTC – Details)
“The BCD436HP is the first scanner to incorporate the HomePatrol-1’s ease of use in a traditional handheld scanner. Plus, Uniden’s exclusive Close Call RF Capture feature, GPS Connectivity, Extra-Large Display, Radio System Analysis and Discover Modes put the most advanced scanner features ever right in the palm of your hand. The LCD backlit keypad elluminates the keys and screen helps you make favorite lists quick and easy to setup. The department/site Quick Keys makes for a quick call or tagging the system/channel number. There are five different frequencies that are covered with the BCD436HP (25-512 MHz, 758-824 MHz, 849-869 MHz, 894-960 MHz, 1240-1300 MHz). Other features: TrunkTracker V, APCO 25 phase I and phase II, X2-TDMA, CTCSS/DCS rapid decoding, P25 NAC decoding and simple-to-use Sentinel PC software to keep your scanner’s database and firmware up to date. Receives conventional and the following types of trunked channels: •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 •LTR Standard •Project 25 Standard •Motorola X2-TDMA •P25 Phase I and Phase II •EDACS Standard (Wide) •EDACS Narrowband (Narrow) •EDACS Networked (Wide/Narrow) •EDACS ESK On the following frequencies: (25-512 MHz) (758-960 MHz) (excluding cellular telephone bands) (1.24 – 1.3 GHz) “. Favorites List, System, and Department/Site Quick Keys. Range control – lets you set how far out from your current location the scanner will search for channels in favorites lists and the database.
The BCD436HP is the first scanner to incorporate the HomePatrol-1 ease of use in a traditional handheld scanner. Plus, Uniden’s exclusive Close Call RF Capture feature, GPS Connectivity, Extra-Large Display, Radio System Analysis and Discover Modes put the most advanced scanner features ever right in the palm of your hand.
Simple to operate, no programming needed. Simply turn it on, enter your zip code, and TrunkTracker V does the rest.
This user-friendly digital scanner will immediately begin receiving communications used by Public Safety, Police, Fire, EMS, Ambulance, Aircraft, Military, Weather, and more.Scan Speed – 85 channels per second
This functionality is made possible by combining the rich radio system database from Radio Reference with Uniden’s patented radio system selection methods to correctly identify and monitor only nearby systems in the USA/Canada.
Whether it is across town or across the street, the BCD436HP keeps you informed. Now with the largest display on the market and more advanced features, the BCD436HP makes a superior unit for the scanner enthusiast..Instant Replay – Plays back up to 240 seconds (4 minutes) of the most recent transmissions..Custom Alerts – You can program your scanner to alert when you receive, a Channel or Unit ID, a Close Call hit, an ID is transmitted with an Emergency Alert, or a Tone-out hit. For each alert in the scanner, you can select from 9 different tone patterns, 15 volume settings, 7 colors, and 3 flash patterns.
How can we help? Uniden Customer Support web site is designed to conveniently walk you through product setup and troubleshooting, Web site: https://uniden.com/pages/support-1 . Contact customer support at email: [email protected] or phone: 1-800-297-1023.
Customers say
Customers like the quality of the scanner, mentioning it’s a great starter digital scanner. However, some complain about the battery life and battery charging. Opinions are mixed on ease of use, performance, value, reception, and sound quality.
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Raven –
Great Unit & Future Proof
Make sure you read the review item next to the name of the user. Amazon mixes reviews of different units in one.Before I get into the scanner I would like to address some complaints in general on scanners and the frustration of programming and using them and resulting in a bad review and complaints about a scanner be it a simple scanner or a complex one. Radio systems (simplex, trunking, digital, etc) and all the frequencies assigned worldwide is a complex matrix. It’s not a simple as scanning every frequency under the sun to find some activity, its more complex.And truth be told 95% of scanner enthusiast like the complexity as it adds to the hobby. Learning and gaining knowledge and always figuring out new tricks, etc. If it was simple it would not be a fun.But there are some who want quick and easy. So you must to 1 of 2 things. 1: Make sure any scanner you purchase you can hook up to the computer (some use serial so be patient) and use FreeScan software (free) and subscribe to a frequency database. It’s cheap and worth it. I paid 30 a year that’s pennies a day to have an awesome database at your fingertips. This will load and label all the systems in your area and put them on the scanner.2: Purchase a more expensive with a built in database and other features (like this Uniden 436HP). Even if you do #2 it’s always good to do #1 also. And be patient. While watching TV or hanging out, mess with the scanner nightly and learn little things as you go. Watch some videos on YouTube like Scanning 101, etc. Enjoy the process and do not get frustrated.On to my quick review of the BCD436HP. I had purchased the BC346XTC and used it for a week. Great unit highly recommend if you want analog with trunking. I wish the display was bigger so you can see more of the 3 areas system, dept and channel. But it worked great and I rated it 5 stars. But I wanted something digital with a larger display so I plunked out more than double the price of the BC346 for the BCD436HP.Love the large display, it really shows a lot. A separate line for the system, department and channel which you can hold each one and scan subs of them. When I first turned it on I entered my postal code and was scanning in minutes. The BC346 I had to manual scan or load it with FreeScan to get it really working. I have not hooked the BCD436HP to the computer yet but will this week to load detailed databases.This has a ton a features and essentially has unlimited channels (no cap). Firmware will future proof this unit. It pretty much does everything (trunked, digital, etc). The Micro SD card is a great feature to load a ton of databases and this unit will record and playback transmissions.Some users commented on the cheap feel of the unit. That’s a slippery slope with a lot of opinions. Its light weight and feels good to me, the plastic is not super tough industrial but Uniden most likely weighed the pro and cons.Example: A Motorola VHF 2 way 99% of the time will be used in a work environment and be dropped, thrown on a dash or ledge, etc. That is why they also do not put displays on most of them for durability. Now a scanner is typically a hobbyist device and I can imagine 95% of the time it would not be used in a rugged work environment, so to me Uniden chose well with light weight plastic.The display screen plastic seems like it may get scratched easy but I have not had it long enough determine that. Some people do not like the Uniden clip on the back since it sticks out, but if you see why they did that it nice. It’s basically the same CB mic mount to when you take the clip off it slides real nice into a CB mic mount. I bought a CB mic mount and use it in my van. Very nice feature.Battery life is dependent on processing, led, etc. I have not used it long to determine but if I had to charge it every night no big deal.Bottom line with anything you buy there is always things some people like and others do not. Is this unit a little pricey, probably but then it has a lot of R&D in it and they do not sell tons of them so there has to be a price point to make money. So I am ok with the price. You basically have a little computer in your hand ready to scan the RF Spectrum and should be future proof for a long time.If your trying to figure out if you like scanning buy a smaller Uniden or Whistler and program it via your computer and check it out. If you want to move up into the full spectrum (trunking, digital, etc) then you need something like this. I would recommend this to someone who knows what they want and ready to shell out a few bucks. For a beginner maybe start smaller.I had a chance to mess with hooking this up to my computer. Turns out the FreeScan does not support this unit. BUT Uniden makes free software for this called Sentinal which has a real good database with it. Its all installed on the 436 already so you really do not need to use the software unless you want to make easy edits or import stuff from freescan, etc. Sentinal software may not be as in depth for the hard core seasoned scanner users but for me its good.So in reality the BCD436 is a unit that will have you scanning in minutes with little to no programming and has the capability for the seasoned users to program till the cows come home.Update: I love this scanner. The screen showing all the info is great. The hold for each area is awesome I cannot say enough about that.I have NOT needed software like on other scanner I have used. Maybe I will one day but Uniden shipped this will ALL the frequencies in my area and nationwide for the most part!
Dennis M. –
Wow
Enjoy listening to this scanner, easy to program with the zip code locator. Great sound, only thing I don’t like is the belt clip- too easy to unclip. Good value for money for sure.
RF Guy –
High End Digital Scanner With Steep Learning Curve
This is a scanner made for scanner techies, not for the inexperienced. It has an overwhelming assortment of bells/whistles and is not easy to program. It took me a month or so of working with it to really understand all the settings. You can get lost, lose track of channels you have in the Quick key layers and it is a frustration device like a sudoku puzzle. But as a genuine high end digital scanner for the hard core scanner fan, or RF engineer who likes to fiddle with settings, it is fantastic, once you get it properly setup. But that is a real challenge.You can use Uniden’s Sentinel Software this comes free and it works okay, but you will end up with many old/unused channels or far too many duplicates to be useful if you use the zip code method. The best way to program this is to setup your own Favorites List and start adding things one piece at a time from the database. But if you drill into the database in a big metro area, you’ll wind up giving up in a fit of confusion! Thousands of channels listed, hundreds of channels show up buried in multi layers of layers. Which is why you need to really research the Sentinel database before you program this. You can download the Sentinel software from Uniden first off their website and decide if you can do this. Updates are free and current from the Radio Reference database. You’ll never have out of date stuff.You plug this scanner into a USB jack like a flash drive and the computer finds this as a storage device. But don’t ever pull the USB cable out before you tell windows to eject this device or you’ll corrupt the SD micro card inside the scanner. The BCD436HP has a few current bugs. The first bug is related to this SD card corruption issue, the second possible bug relates to the backup battery for time, Uniden has a current update fix for this. The other bug is a possible dimmer display over time. I have had this unit for two months and have not had any problems so far. Be very vigilant about first “Ejecting the Storage Device” on your PC before you pull out the USB cable and shut if off before the batteries get too low because it has to write to/close the SD card when you shut if off. Also, firmware updates will come thru Uniden’s Sentinel Software for free as well as the database and and other updates. I had no trouble at all with my PC finding the scanner.For digital reception on P-25 systems, this scanner is hard to beat for legible Voice Quality. But my new Uniden BCD325P2 scanner will equal this unit side by side. This unit will do P-25 (Phase 1 & 2) but I get fantastic reception with Phase 1 (so far) in my area. The VHF/UHF reception is about the same as my other units, as good as you’ll probably ever need. If you want the best digital reception, buy the RS 800 mhz antenna, which also does very good for VHF/UHF. This unit runs on 3 AA batteries which they include, one of mine was a dud, get a cheap battery checker, buy a spare set of 2400 NiMh and a good slow charger. Don’t charge in the radio, the batteries may get hot. You should get 8 or more hours off a fully charged set of 3 AA batts.As far as the large display goes, the letters are very narrow and very thin and very crowded. It is hard to see it good at a few feet with eyes over 40 years of age. There is a slight duplication of info on the 3 fields, really a great deal of info on the screen, but your eyes can’t take it all in at once. I found that if I re-do all the channel names/labels in All Caps and just use less letters, you can see the display much better. But you will have to go in and re-do this work yourself by hand, the database channel names do not appear in Caps. Just keep the info fields to one line if you can and it shows up clearer on the display. The display does not alternate/blink like on other scanners either. It is not a world class display for such a high end scanner. But it does tell you everything about the channel you are listening to. The scanner also has 3 Hold buttons, but no Scan button, (it is the System button). It is quite tall and tip over prone. You can program it by hand but you will really need to know your frequencies/systems in your area first and you’ll quickly get overwhelmed. This is not a user friendly scanner, but most digital scanners are pretty much all complicated now compared to old style analog scanners.This is a Fantastic Scanner for RF engineers and tech geeks, at the risk of being highly complex for the general public. You need much more patience than money. Set it up right and you’ll get a wonderfully amazing scanner gizmo, but the learning curve is extreme. There are many things about this scanner that you can fully screwup by just missing particulars in the programming. You’ll wind up with it saying “Nothing To Scan” on the display and go back in programming and do trial and error and wind up with the same result. Over and over. Or miss complete services even when you have them programmed in! I programmed it 5 times over before I fully understood this thing, and I’m an RF engineer. But it does have incredible reception on P-25 systems and if you want extra bells/whistles to play with, this is for you.
Hector N. –
Este scanner es altamente recomendado. El hecho que la base de datos no esté disponible fuera de USA o CAN no es problema si estás en el hobby para descubrir e identificar frecuencias. Gran calidad de recepción. El software Sentinel facilita enormemente la programación.
Adrian Hawco –
I have only been using scanners for the last 6 months and I have only had the bcd436hp for about 24 hours and I am very happy with everything about the scanner. The trick to getting the scanner to work properly is to register and download the sentinel software from uniden. Install the software and update your firmware and frequencies straight from the software.. This is a must. I couldn’t use the scanner until I used the software.. I’m in Newfoundland Canada and the zip code / area code feature won’t work in my area even with the software but still simple to use once I plugged it in and picked my area in the database supplied by the software.. Just remember that you have to make a favorites list and amend the frequencies to the favorites list.. You should be able to understand once you have used the software a couple of times.. It’s much easier than any other method.. 10 out of 10
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Electronics-Tech –
Excellent Hand Held Scanner. I have been using this for over a year. Updates always available for it over at Uniden.
Luis –
No funciona en mexico y no te aceptan devolución, no lo compres!Ya me hicieron el reembolso pero a una tarjeta de regalo y no a mi tarjeta original de la compra