Bearcat old scanner

[Omega-TI]

Cleaning out the garage I found a bin labeled "Radio MISC". A bunch of connectors, speakers, antenna mounts and parts from projects over the years. And my old BC245XLT and AR8000! Of course I had to start playing with each, only to find the limitations of each.

Congrats! I'm not sure I'd have ever dumped either of those in a miscellaneous bin, but I remember drooling over the AR800 in the advertisements back in the day. 1k channels with 500k to 1.9M receive was pretty respectable. I almost got one at one point, but I heard it was a 8!tch to program.

 

[pmtchr]

Congrats! I'm not sure I'd have ever dumped either of those in a miscellaneous bin, but I remember drooling over the AR800 in the advertisements back in the day. 1k channels with 500k to 1.9M receive was pretty respectable. I almost got one at one point, but I heard it was a 8!tch to program.

I'm pretty sure they both got there when things went digital. The 245 will probably be a no-go for use these days. But I might use the AR8000 for air or such. Other than manually keypad entry, it's pretty straight forward for non-trunked analog programming.

 

[kc2asb]

I'm pretty sure they both got there when things went digital. The 245 will probably be a no-go for use these days. But I might use the AR8000 for air or such. Other than manually keypad entry, it's pretty straight forward for non-trunked analog programming.

The wideband coverage of the AR8000 make it useful for a number of monitoring applications, including shortwave/amateur radio.

The 245 would be great for railroad, marine, etc. Still plenty of things to listen to on these old scanners.

 

[pmtchr]

The wideband coverage of the AR8000 make it useful for a number of monitoring applications, including shortwave/amateur radio.

The 245 would be great for railroad, marine, etc. Still plenty of things to listen to on these old scanners.

Very true. I have a R30 as my go-to wideband receiver, so the AR8000 will probably get dedicated to something(s) specific, or a backup for simply searching the airwaves. We'll see about the 245.

 

[pmtchr]

Very true. I have a R30 as my go-to wideband receiver, so the AR8000 will probably get dedicated to something(s) specific, or a backup for simply searching the airwaves. We'll see about the 245.

Any chance anyone has a control/remote cable for the BC245XLT to sell? Or a link to a current vendor?