What model scanner is this guy talking about?

[c_gutta]

I work at a Radio Shack. I was helping another customer, but over heard a part of a conversation a customer was having with one of my co workers. He said he had a Uniden scanner Model 7 (something...not sure how many digits in the model number. He said it was a base scanner that you could get on ebay for about $200. He said there was an XLT model, and the only difference was the XLT model has 1,000 channels. He said with software that was out for the scanner you could control just about everything on the scanner. Even frequency recording. He said software would also open up the 800 mhz band. What model scanner could he be talking about. This is all the info I heard. By the time I was done with my customer, he was gone so I couldn't ask him myself.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

 

[Dubbin]

Sounds like the guy was filling someone full of crapola.

 

[SCPD]

There's a Uniden Bearcat model BC780XLT that was introduced a few years ago but it only has 500 channels. It's successor is/was the BC785XLT with 1000 channels and can do 3600 baud digital TRS'. The successor to that radio is the BC796XLT with 1000 channels and will do 3600 and 9600 baud digital systems. There's several sources of software for these radios that allows them to be controlled via software or without.

I'm not sure if any of the software will allow full 800mhz coverage or not. I have a BC780XLT and I use control software by Pozilla. To the best of my knowledge it won't open up the radio for additional frequencies.

 

[Voyager]

I'm not sure if any of the software will allow full 800mhz coverage or not.

A requirement for FCC type acceptance for the past 10 years is that the firmware cannot be upgraded via software (among other means) to allow Cellular.

There has been no XLT MODEL of a scanner since the BC210 vs BC210XLT 20 years ago or so (or maybe it was the BC100 vs BC100XLT). Anything since has been an XLT only, or was not offered in an 'XLT' model.

Joe M.