Scanner? $4.00

[D31245]

Saw this today at a local antiques co-op. Not sure if it works. Don’t see many scanners at the antique places I visit. Didn’t buy it.

Uniden Bearcat BC-560XLT



From what I’ve read, it wasn’t a bad little scanner for its day.

https://www.universal-radio.com/CATALOG/scanners/BC560XLT.html

 

[Listener1440]

$4.00, might be a fun project

 

[CrowsSDR]

Can barely buy 2 McChickens with four bucks. I'd give it a shot.

 

[mc48]

I would have gotten it. I got a Bearcat 20/20 off E-Bay last week for $15 and all it needed was for the pots to be cleaned.
Works great for everything analog.

 

[mmckenna]

From what I’ve read, it wasn’t a bad little scanner for its day.

It was.
It was inexpensive and basic. Just what I needed at the time to listen to a handful of frequencies. I didn't need a big display, and the smaller form factor worked well in my truck.
But of course this was back in the day where everything was analog, no trunking, and even large cities only had a few channels.
A small step up from the crystal scanners of the day.

For 4 bones, I would have bought that.

 

[rgchristy]

I would never pass up a $4.00 scanner...

 

[hazrat8990]

Wow, this brought back a flood of memories!! I had one of these little gems back in the late 90's and absolutely loved it. I can still remember every frequency, and even the order they were programmed.

 

[KevinC]

If someone gave me $4 I'd take it.

 

[CollinsURG]

I saw that very same model installed in several police cruisers back in the 90s. Local Sheriff's department monitored Fire Dispatch on 154.25 Mhz and NC Highway Patrol on 2 channel simplex 42.92/42.68 Mhz.

 

[601]

I have one of these in my radio room. Great for testing when I'm programming radios. Also picks up NOAA broadcasts better than any of my other scanners. This was my first scanner I ever owned and it's still going strong since 1993.

 

[mark40]

Owned one of those, very popular with my firefighting and EMS buddies way back when.

 

[steve9570]

I have 2 tucked away in my junk radio box. They worked great!! And they still work.

 

[hill]

I would have definitely purchased that scanner for $4

Had one back in day and it would be great for ham, marine, railroad and all the analog fire dispatch channels.

 

[hill]

Also this scanner was sold under a few different model numbers like BC400XLT when Scanner World sold Bearcat Scanners similar to other Bearcat models, but with other model numbers just for them.

 

[PACNWDude]

I still have one of these buried somewhere in my many piles/boxes of radio related stuff. It was small enough to be placed into my 1990 Toyota Corolla, along with a Radio Shack CB. If I recall correctly, it was also the scanner in the "command vehicle" in the movie Universal Soldier......with Dolph Lundgrens character tuning it at some point, mounted to the dash of the semi tractor. (Always wondered how it would fair being mounted up high on the dash like that).

The rubberized buttons were a bit annoying, and the two digit display would scroll the frequency programmed, which at the time I thought looked cool. But now I prefer seeing the entire frequency display at once, LCD's made this cheap and abundant. Would have spent the $4 too, I bet it still works.

 

[kc2asb]

For $4.00, I would have grabbed it in a heartbeat. They were decent, rugged scanners.

 

[D31245]

Thanks all for the replies. I may head back there this weekend and see if it's still there. Probably good chance it will be; then I'll take a closer look at it.

 

[jeepsandradios]

Still have a handful of them. We installed them in many Chief/EMS/Law vehicles back in the day, as well as most Fire and EMS Stations. I still use one in my garage to scan our local Fire/EMS paging channels. Even though they are narrowband it picks them up for my purpose. As said great for NOAA as well as GMRS/HAM.

 

[hill]

and the two digit display would scroll the frequency

The frequency would only scroll on display if you hit the review button when in the manual mode stopped on channell if my memory serves me.

In normal operation of scanning the scanner would just display the two digits of the channel

 

[Omega-TI]

Wow, I've not seen one of those in years. My brother used to have one in his Celica (before he wrecked it). After he died we found it in a box in his garage and tossed it along with a bunch of other stuff.