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Reviews For: Uniden BC-898T

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Review Summary For : Uniden BC-898T
Reviews: 11MSRP: 220 (street price)
Description:
500 Channel Programmable Base Scanner with TrunkTracker III
Product is in production
More Info: http://www.uniden.com/productpop/00_productpop.cfm?prd_code=BC898T
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00114.5
KC2IGY Rating: 2004-10-10
Tone Bug Fixed Time Owned: 3 to 6 months.
Uniden came through with a firmware update that fixes the "Tone Bug" on the 898T. The radio now performs as it should. It is an excellent performing scanner, at a good price. It lacks some of the features of the BC780XLT, but in some ways it outperforms it.

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Earlier 2-star review posted by KC2IGY on 2004-09-14

As Dave pointed out, there is a bug in the CTCSS decoding on the new 898T. Uniden is hopefully going to fix this problem. Until then, it's impossible to recommend this radio. The features, performance, and price are right, but as of now it's defective. Wait for a hardware of firmware update.