Introduction – Uniden BCT8 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.

5kHz

12.5kHz

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 - 823.9875

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