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If this new scanner is not capable of decoding simulcast then it is complete garbage and a huge waste of time and money.
BCD160DN/BCD260DN: Is this a new Uniden model? BCD260DN
Uniden marketed a specialty scanner several years back aimed at NASCAR racing enthusiasts. The Bearcat SC-150 Sportcat was capable, however, of receiving scanner frequencies from VHF-Low to 900 MHz.
So you'll probably buy one anyway?
mmckenna
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If we're going to do rumors, lets do it right to help Uniden's sales:
-NOT cellular blocked. Will decode LTE and show you ever website every person on your local cell sector is using by simply plugging a monitor into the USB port. No SIM card needed.
-Decrypts all forms of communications, even those digital modes not invented yet.
-Covers shortwave band down to -40KHz.
-Designed to receive 800MHz systems from 3000 miles away with no pesky external antenna. In fact, the smaller antenna you use, the better it'll work.
-Never needs programming. New AI interface will know what you want to listen to before you do.
-Designed to work with magnetic mount antennas, in fact, will NOT work with a proper NMO install, scanner will spontaneously combust if connected to a proper antenna.
-Plug in a microphone to the USB connector, and it'll transmit on every frequency it will receive without additional programming. No pesky licensing required, and all public safety agencies will immediately respond to your advice on how they should be doing their jobs.
-Submersible to 1000 meters.
-IP99 rating. Drop tested from 35,000 feet.
-Decodes 5G, 6G, 7GGG+ and the coveted 1.21GigaG (aka: The Great Scott! band)
-Decodes P25 Phase 3.
-Trunk tracks conventional systems!
-Decodes AES256 because you are a taxpayer and you pay for their radios.
-Works through tinfoil hats. You'll know exactly when the gubbermint is spying on you.
-Google G-Scanner interface. Automatically posts every call in your neighborhood to Radio Referece.
- @GlobalNorth mode. Loud alert to notify you of nearby recycling center fires.
-Scanner automatically knows when a "bad guy" is holding it and blocks out all law enforcement radio traffic.
-Snoopy Neighbor mode, streams medical telemetry and health records to your laptop any time an ambulance shows up at your neighbors home.
There. It's on the internet. It is therefore true.
-NOT cellular blocked. Will decode LTE and show you ever website every person on your local cell sector is using by simply plugging a monitor into the USB port. No SIM card needed.
-Decrypts all forms of communications, even those digital modes not invented yet.
-Covers shortwave band down to -40KHz.
-Designed to receive 800MHz systems from 3000 miles away with no pesky external antenna. In fact, the smaller antenna you use, the better it'll work.
-Never needs programming. New AI interface will know what you want to listen to before you do.
-Designed to work with magnetic mount antennas, in fact, will NOT work with a proper NMO install, scanner will spontaneously combust if connected to a proper antenna.
-Plug in a microphone to the USB connector, and it'll transmit on every frequency it will receive without additional programming. No pesky licensing required, and all public safety agencies will immediately respond to your advice on how they should be doing their jobs.
-Submersible to 1000 meters.
-IP99 rating. Drop tested from 35,000 feet.
-Decodes 5G, 6G, 7GGG+ and the coveted 1.21GigaG (aka: The Great Scott! band)
-Decodes P25 Phase 3.
-Trunk tracks conventional systems!
-Decodes AES256 because you are a taxpayer and you pay for their radios.
-Works through tinfoil hats. You'll know exactly when the gubbermint is spying on you.
-Google G-Scanner interface. Automatically posts every call in your neighborhood to Radio Referece.
- @GlobalNorth mode. Loud alert to notify you of nearby recycling center fires.
-Scanner automatically knows when a "bad guy" is holding it and blocks out all law enforcement radio traffic.
-Snoopy Neighbor mode, streams medical telemetry and health records to your laptop any time an ambulance shows up at your neighbors home.
There. It's on the internet. It is therefore true.
mmckenna
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Oops, left out one:
260 is in the model number, therefore it'll cost $260. DN means they are taking DowN payments.
260 is in the model number, therefore it'll cost $260. DN means they are taking DowN payments.
Ladies and gentlemen, in six pages of this widely varying diatribe of debate and debacle, there is one glaring question that has yet to be asked.
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Does this thing get cell phones?
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It is nice to see that new scanners are being built/conceptualized though. I have no need for one of these but I hope they'll fit the niche for those that do.
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Does this thing get cell phones?
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It is nice to see that new scanners are being built/conceptualized though. I have no need for one of these but I hope they'll fit the niche for those that do.
And all for the special introductory price of $25,536,996!
Drat, if I had hit send 30 seconds earlier on the last one you wouldn't have stolen my "thunder". Sonofa...
Well if this new model does all that @mmckenna says they'll do, you'll find the need.
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Garbage to you maybe, but you're ignoring the fact that many folks in rural areas don't live anywhere near simulcast systems, and the many that are interested in monitoring air / RR / and many other non-simulcast interests and would use it as a low cost secondary scanner for monitoring - in addition to their main scanners.
Akuriko
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agreed i have a plan for a new scanner or 4 so that is on top of my list to buy when it comes out 
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There are plenty of scanners that do that already
Akuriko
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anyone who wants to get into scanning in rural communties can use a uniden 355N just saying
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Do you classify those as garbage also?
I bet someone here on RR knows about the new scanners but won't disclose anything because of an NDA.
scanman56
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all it takes is 1 disgruntled employee
Ubbe
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To me it looks like a stripped BCD996P2. It's the same hardware that have already been designed and developed and paid for and it's just the cost for the material and the machines that spit them out in Vietnam. Strip out the GPS and include the DMR and NXDN options but crippled without a trunked function and Uniden doesn't have to pay anything to their organizations or allow for post upgrades of digital modes. All firmware already exists in their other scanners and have already been developed and paid for and you can probably use a OFT programming, maybe slightly modified, to scan slots and frequencies to make it work more or less like a Whistler TRX scanner.
I can see this as being a $250 scanner and would do great also outside of North America where database scanners are of no use. I would certainly buy one if it where $250 or even $299.
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I can see this as being a $250 scanner and would do great also outside of North America where database scanners are of no use. I would certainly buy one if it where $250 or even $299.
/Ubbe
Me too!!
Exactly. Perhaps one or more of the components in one or more of Uniden’s current non-I/Q receivers was EOL. This required a substantial redesign due to the available components not being adaptable to the present design. Uniden sells enough of these receivers and anticipates continuing to do so for the future so the economics make sense. The new design also allows the inclusion of new features and/or the removal of features but a reduction in price.
Voila, the BCD260DN.
Akuriko
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i agree as well.
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