Must just be me then but I have the 396 which I'm guessing wouldn't much different than the 346 and I've never had any issues with the online manuals from Uniden.
Well I read at Graduate level and it was and is largely Greek to me. Only the existence of third party software made the thing useable - thank goodness for Freescan!
The html files have no proper search function and this makes the manual basically unusable - I made a living writing web sites and a web site without search is broken. That's what Uniden basically delivers on their CD - a broken web site. And the one on line adds (or did last time I tried) very long delays for no more information.
I don't know what the 800 manual looks like, the mailman hasn't got it here yet, but reading the PDF is sheer pleasure compared to the Uniden 346 manual. It actually starts out by telling you how to use the damned thing, a concept that apparently never occurred to Uniden.
Don't get me wrong, I love my 346 and it works wonderfully now that I know how to use it, and I'm sure that if I could have afforded the 396 I'd have learned to use it with the software as I did with the 346. But that manual is crap, and the "easier to read" online manuals done by a third party, while much better, don't hold a candle to the PDF manual for the GRE 800. Can't afford the 396 or the Home Patrol still, but the GRE is (just) within my financial reach so I should be able to get those P25 local police systems.
Is it as good as the 396 or HP as a scanner? I don't know. But I do know that the manual whups the one for the 346.