shawnc1959
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Apologies in advance for the newbie question ...
My father had a Uniden Bearcat 210WX scanner (I'm guessing circa late '70s/early '80s), and when he passed away years ago in PA, I held onto it though I never used it myself. Now that we're trying to "declutter", I came across it in the back of a closet and tried to see if it still worked.
The weather function seems to operate fine; it has a specific "Wx" button which almost immediately picks up a continual broadcast of the National Weather Service ... so I guess that means it's still in working order(?). Using the frequency database on this web site, I looked up Wake County and some of the services it lists are at frequencies which, according to a manual I found for this scanner online (http://www.repeater-builder.com/uniden/pdf/bc210-owners-man.pdf), it should be able to pick up. But I don't seem to have any luck getting anything other than weather; I've even just let it scan frequencies but it seems unable to pick up anything.
Is it just that radio technology used by municipalities today has evolved beyond what an antique like this can access? Thanks in advance for your feedback.
My father had a Uniden Bearcat 210WX scanner (I'm guessing circa late '70s/early '80s), and when he passed away years ago in PA, I held onto it though I never used it myself. Now that we're trying to "declutter", I came across it in the back of a closet and tried to see if it still worked.
The weather function seems to operate fine; it has a specific "Wx" button which almost immediately picks up a continual broadcast of the National Weather Service ... so I guess that means it's still in working order(?). Using the frequency database on this web site, I looked up Wake County and some of the services it lists are at frequencies which, according to a manual I found for this scanner online (http://www.repeater-builder.com/uniden/pdf/bc210-owners-man.pdf), it should be able to pick up. But I don't seem to have any luck getting anything other than weather; I've even just let it scan frequencies but it seems unable to pick up anything.
Is it just that radio technology used by municipalities today has evolved beyond what an antique like this can access? Thanks in advance for your feedback.