346XT Help Needed

[billyspurrs]

I bought a uniden bc346xt last week and find that there are very few available police department frequencies that work .. I don't want to hear a volunteer fire dept in the sticks ..are there brands of scanners that pick up the modern signals ? .. and how can i get a refund on this light weight junk ..

 

[loumaag]

I moved your post to it's own thread, please don't ask off topic questions in someone else's topic.

 

[captclint]

UPman has better answer

 

[UPMan]

Much of the county is analog, which can be received just fine using the BC346XT (it is a state-of-the art analog trunking scanner...I challenge you to find a better one in production, today).

Leeds uses MotoTRBO on some channels, which cannot be monitored on any scanner.

The Sheriff and some other county / municipal agencies are on a mixed-mode trunked radio system. The BC346XT will track all of the channels marked as "A" (analog) just fine. For the digital (D) channels, you'll need to step up to a digital trunking scanner. The three models that are in current production are:

• BCD396XT
• BCD996XT
• HomePatrol-1

 

[UPMan]

Double-post. Nothing to see here. Move along, please.