modifying Uniden BC200XLT

[soimcrazy]

I have an old Uniden 200 XLT handheld. I covers 29-54 118-174 406-512 806-956 MHz.
Is there anyway to have it modified so that it will pick up the frequencies that is skips?




Thanks !!

 

[ka3jjz]

Probably not. The RF stages wouldn't be tuned for it, so even if you could fool the programming into going into other ranges, the lack of sensitivity and other factors would make such an exercise worthless. Get a radio designed for those ranges....73s Mike

 

[z96cobra]

I don't know if posting frequency mods is allowed so do this... Go to google and type in this info, but leave out the quotation marks "+BC200XLT +scanner +mod" and you will find the info requested, plus some other mods to allow faster scanning, "longer" battery life, and a couple more mods.

Roger

 

[ka3jjz]

In fact, the 200 was one of the most modd'ed handhelds; going to places like mods.dk, the Radio Modifications Yahoo group, QRZ.com, ect. will no doubt bring up all of them. And there were a great MANY mods done to this handheld. 73s Mike

 

[mciupa]

I have an old Uniden 200 XLT handheld. I covers 29-54 118-174 406-512 806-956 MHz.
Is there anyway to have it modified so that it will pick up the frequencies that is skips?

Those sites ka3jjz mentioned are great for mods. I'm curious as to what is missing for you .(Just being nosy )
Is it the Air Band in the 200- 400 mHz range ? There isn't anything worthwhile between 54 and 118 or 512 to 806.

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[SIMON11]

Those sites ka3jjz mentioned are great for mods. I'm curious as to what is missing for you .(Just being nosy )
Is it the Air Band in the 200- 400 mHz range ? There isn't anything worthwhile between 54 and 118 or 512 to 806.

I see you joined today, Welcome to RadioReference

I agree with this. I upgraded from within a week from owning a 92xlt to a BR330T only to find there was nothing in the gaps of interest. There are obviously a lot of other advantages to owning the BR330T but filling these frequency gaps is not one of them.

 

[kingpin]

Those sites ka3jjz mentioned are great for mods. I'm curious as to what is missing for you .(Just being nosy )
Is it the Air Band in the 200- 400 mHz range ? There isn't anything worthwhile between 54 and 118 or 512 to 806.

I see you joined today, Welcome to RadioReference

I miss my BC200. It was a great radio in it's day.

The military air band is in the 225-400 range and no, you can't modify this one to recieve it.
54-118 has VHF TV audio and some paging, aeronautical natigation and fm boradcast
512-806 - UHF TV audio and some experemental stuff. Really not missing anything there.
The only frequency mod I did on mine was the 800 mod and that worked like it was supposed to. Still a good radio this day.