Bearcat BCD160DN Handheld Digital Scanner, Exclusive Features, Band Scope Rapid System/Channel Number Tagging, Narrow-Band Reception, and Search Features to Detect Signals Faster Than Ever

Good unit, easy to program and fits on my belt nicely. Really recommend an earpiece as for the speaker is small, but that is expected in small hand held units.

This scanner is a piece of crap. Batteries only last about 2hrs. Difficult to program. Hard to hear. Cannot block certain banks, if you block a freq. then turn off have to go through and block again. Do not buy

This scanner picks up analog, DMR and NXDN. It does not pick up P25 or do trunking. It is a great scanner if you already have something like a Whistler WS1065 or WS1040 and your area went to dmr or nxdn. You can use it along side your existing scanner to hear all the action.

Came with a coupon to send it in for upgrade to nxdn. I don't know if it needs more done to it, but the ad says it is supposed to be ready out of the box. Unnecessarily, overly complicated to program. Poor reception. Charging/battery state system clunky. No charger included either. Just a cable for an older style USB. Poor to no NDXN implementation and documentation. Could not pick up anything either in search mode or programming with proscan. If it has NDXN capabilities out of the box it did not produce it for me. Reception of standard stations was adequate to inferior to my old radio. I did receive 1... 1 station plus the weather channel. Yet the price was double and did not get me any better capabilities. I am disappointed with the purchase. I don't know how other radio users feel about the price point, but this was a premium price for me for a far less than premium scanner. I'm going back to decades old scanners that simply work better even though they predate ndxn . Not only that, but there will be a huge delay in a refund being issued (nearly a month) because this is secretly a third party seller.

Good radio, good reception, but battery life not long.

Very nice scanner with plenty of banks and slots to store radio frequencies. Takes a bit of practice to get use to the functions. Scan rate and accuracy have been excellent. Accepted replacement antennas well. Display is dim. Power plug connection is ancient. Plastic screen cracked in a week.

This one is junk. Won't hold charge, won't scan properly.

This is a scanner that is not for everyone but perfect for many. As a scanner hobbies who has owned every scanner made sice crystals, this is one I passed on initially after seeing specs. It is not a digital scanner in the sense that the target is not public service in terms of police, fire, etc, although you can receive limited stuff still conventional and not trunked. I have loads of scanners, all mainly trunk radios like SDS100, SDS200, 325P2 etc. With upgrades, some of which I have, these digital modes are available, at a higher cost in a higher priced radio, that's not really search-friendly. The 125AT (and 325P2) has always been a favorite for me for searching general frequencies. The 125AT is built for searching. I recently pulled out my trusty 125AT, got re-engaged in the search hobby, and even picked up another 125AT to have in a different location. Then I reconsidered the 160DN. Still seemed a little on the high side compared to the 125AT, but other than P25, the main digital mode for police etc, it decodes a pile of other digital modes, automatically. This thing is a giant step up from the 125AT in that you get all the higher 700-900 mz range, as long as it is not P25. The radio even recognizes P25 and resumes without noise. I have way fewer lockout because the radio cuts a lot of that out when you search digital modes only. It saves your finds with all the system mode, type and color code nonsense automatically without you manually setting up a channel, though you can do it if you want. Reconsider this one if you passed on it initially like I did.

brill radio , highly recommended

Very nice looking radio. Small and compact. Audio is quite good in good reception areas. Sensitivity for airband is very good but gets overloaded way too easily. If you are within several miles of transmitters you will be hearing all of them no matter what frequency you are on when your radio is picking up any of the transmissoins.. DMR sensitivity is not that good. Shame uniden made a very bad radio for airband. £250+ is a big con. Poor radio. Better go back to 125XLT model.

Not impressed there are better ones out there but it is very easy to program

The great thing about this transaction was Amazons service. It arrived from American in 7 days and sadly after a few hours it was back in the box and returned, which Amazon fulfilled with no quibble so another plus for them. The product itself though is poor. Now There are a lot of happy folk who have bought this and I guess it’s possible I could’ve bought a dud but… I have two companies nearby who transmit on DMR. Both within a couple of miles. My Whistler TRX1 picks up no problem and incidentally my friends Uniden 3600 also receives them with the same strength. This was deaf…and I mean deaf! Tried with both my external antenna and a Diamond telescopic back to back with the Whistler. It wasn’t just DMR either. Air band reception was weaker as was HAM. That was enough for me to send it packing.

Like the 125/325P2, good little form factor and pretty easy to use. Good sensitivity and audio. However, like the SDS100 I had (and returned), this suffered a fair bit of intermod/bleedover when scanning the VHF Air band in a fairly strong signal area, and connected to an externally mounted antenna. It was noticeably worse than the 125 and 325P2, and has unfortunately been returned. For use out and about using a decent BNC antenna, and with the capability to receive DMR/NXDN out of the box, it could be a nice addition if you have a 125, and not using it predominantly as a base receiver.