The BCT7 puzzles me. Particularly it's features to price point relation. It's nearly as expensive as the BCT8, but it doesn't trunk. It's a lot more expensive than the 350C, which does nearly the same thing. If I lived in an area with no trunking, and it had the numeric keypad and a serial out, and did CTCSS and was a little less than the 8 - I could see it.