Hi all,
I just traded in my vehicle and had a 536hp mounted in car. Now that I am getting new car I am thinking about a portable scanner. I need P25 capable. What are your thoughts on best one to get? Also, I read some of the reviews on the 436hp on exam and a few were bad.
73'
Kevin
Kevin,
If the reviews that you were reading were on Amazon, there's no telling what scanner or other device they belonged to. Amazon tends to display
all reviews on any Uniden radio on each product. Sometimes, reading a review on, say, the 436HP, it may actually say the product reviewed was the BC125AT. Or the comments are that 'this scanner cannot receive digital'. That may be true for an analog scanner, but not for the scanner that they pasted the review under. Yes, that have been some poor results posted here on RadioReference, but you could say the same thing about any scanner. Some people hate a certain model, while others love it. Other than the clock issue on my first 436HP (I have two), I've had no real trouble with them or with my 536HP.
I've posted a complaint to Amazon before on the mixed products in the reviews, but no change. They do the same on other products, whether a drone, drills, whatever. It makes many of their reviews worthless.
Like Jon, I also use my 436's as portables, in my SUV, or at home, connected to a rooftop antenna.