Drumbum
Member
I see uniden closed their forum only for the privileged, is that because alot of people feel like me,, ive had my HP436 for 6 months now and hate it worse every day,, when i got it upgrading from my BCD396T to get phase 2 on a system in my town that switched over I was intrigued by the claims of enter zip code , use GPS and go anywhere and hear it all. that is defiantly not the case.;I dont even know where to begin with this junk that uniden put out im so frustrated with . I will start from the beginning and hopeful; express my dissatisfaction with this garbage radio in steps, ( so much to the point i think they should pay me extra to take it back).first thing i notice when i turned it on out of the package and entered my zip code thinking this is so cool no programming, these guys are on top of it. wrong!!!.I have my 396 which i programmed rolling in background and the 436 picks up. "roger" then keeps scanning while my 396 set on a delay hears whole conversation.. by the time the 436 scans through its over.. i think to my self no problem,, theses guys at Uniden are on top of their stuff i will set all the channels on a delay.. wrong! cant do that, so now i have to manually set my stuff up 'BTW ended up using the butel to delay because sentinel made it a project.so i have this done now after doing it myself. next thing i do is buy the GPS , while im waiting for it to come in i go to my county thats phase 2. well i hear jack,, after an extensive thread on WTF is the problem i figure it out. first you cant scan anything else or it wont lock DAT, second you have to have Squelch low as possible to get a signal because sensitivity is crap. and had to set the band plan witch im not sure helped anyway. so still have to have my 396T to do the rest of what the 436 cant handle. then My GPS arrives., i go to outer banks, cant get crap whole trip until i realize 4800 baud serial ( yep 1989) was what it handled. while im on that i would say it is on 12 to 14 year old usb technology.. and it will not charge the battery while listening to it, it steadily drops, slow but does drop , it should be charging ,, and the questions when you plug it in,, geez,.. so after all this i thought i learned a little about this scanner and went on another trip to holden beach nc using the almost worthless GPS along with the negative delay time so you get one or 2 words and scan.,oh yea BTW there also should be a Global ID search option too. any way back to the subject. I get home and go back to my programmed favorite i did myself and load. now EVERYTHING scans like molasses, one system takes 15 min to scan through, nothing set on a delay , have no idea what the problem is, didn't change a thing, all i know is i hate this scanner and would like to unload it on some poor unsuspecting soul..Or burn it ,, i will look for a P25 phase 2 scanner from another company and never buy anything from Uniden again.. me and UPman have already been around on my 396T and his conclusion is im illiterate. look back on my posts..I have more complaints about it but have typed enough, Now im stuck with a $400 piece of dog excrement that i absolutely cant stand