If you are only going to use the 885 mobile, it is the easiest to use. But, it has several limitations. It only shows Police,Fire, Ambulance and DOT as catagories you can select to listen to. You have no idea beyond that as to what actual service you are hearing. And I have found that some of those services use modes not available to the 885 as it appears it cannot be upgraded to NXDN, DMR or ProVoice. As I stated earlier, you will hear annoying racket when you encounter systems using them. You can TEMPORARILY block them out using the keycomdo Function then Avoid. But once you power the radio off then back on, they are back again.
But, the two biggest complaints I have against the 885 are, dim display(almost unreadable in daylight, mounted to the upper console of my Peterbilt's storage bins above the windshield....I can barely see the cb channel numbers and nothing else. Same with the 980 I have from Uniden.
Top complaint I have is HEAT. The 885 gets so hot you almost cannot leave your hand on it. Paul said this is normal. I don't think so. The 536 I just bought barely gets warm after running all day. Big difference.
I hope Uniden improves the firmware in the 885 or creates a new version that overcomes it's shortcomings.
It's a great radio with a good feature set, but poorly thought out in it's implementation.
Trucker
