Uniden BCT8 Scanner User Manual


 
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Introduction
The BCT8 is a state-of-the-art Trunk Tracking Scanner with BearTracker technology which
will alert you when the highway patrol is within approximately a 3 mile radius. It can store
250 frequencies such as police, fire/emergency, marine, railroad, air, amateur, and other
communications into 5 banks of 50 channels for a total of 250 channels.
Use your new scanner to monitor:
Highway Patrol
Local Police and Country Sheriffs
Trunking for:
Motorola
Type I
Type II
Type II: (Hybrid)
EDACS
Wide band
Scat
LTR
Business/Industrial Radio
• Utilities
Marine Band
Aircraft Band
And much more...
The chart below identifies the scanner band numbers, the frequency range, the modulation
mode and the default step size settings.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
AM
FM
FM
FM
AM
FM
FM
FM
FM
FM
FM
FM
FM
5kHz
5kHz
5kHz
5kHz
12.5kHz
5kHz
5kHz
5kHz
12.5kHz
12.5kHz
12.5kHz
12.5kHz
12.5kHz
25.0000 - 27.9950
28.0000 - 29.9950
30.0000 - 49.9950
50.0000 - 54.0000
108.0000 - 136.9875
137.0000 - 143.9950
144.0000 - 147.9950
148.0000 - 174.0000
400.0000 - 419.9875
420.0000 - 449.9875
450.0000 - 469.9875
470.0000 - 512.0000
806.0000 - 826.9875
849.0125 - 868.9875
894.0125 - 956.0000
Citizens Band
10 Meter Amateur Band
VHF Low Band
6 Meter Amateur Band
AM Aircraft
Military Land Mobile
2 Meter Amateur Band
VHF High Band
Federal Govt. Land Mobile
70 cm Amateur Band
UHF Standard Band
UHF “T” Band
Public Service Band
Band
No.
Range
(MHz)
Mode Step
Transmission
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