Review on 📻 Uniden Bearcat SR30C: Turbo Search, Close Call RF Capture, 500-Channel Compact Handheld Scanner for NASCAR, Aviation, Marine, Railroad, and Public Safety by David Ruwala

My colleague told me not to buy an analog scanner as they no longer work for Richmond/Chesterfield Co in Virginia. Emergency and police were encrypted, not digital. I was given such wrong information that oh yes it should work. BS Uniden sent me information after I had already ordered it that it would not work after 2 comments stated that it should also work when receiving sea and air transmissions. All I heard was a clear signal for the local weather forecast. I picked up a 20-30 second faint transmission of some sort of police signal, then the scanner swept past him, which I didn't mean to do, and I didn't hear it again. I heard someone on the amateur radio discussing North Korea and the signal was strong but didn't last long. It was damn hard trying to program or place a frequency to see if I could get something else. It was a bunch of crap. I spent a lot of time on Revain reading good and bad reviews and looking for things to buy without a ham radio license and yada yada. After sending it back I went to Best Buy and bought a pair of $99 Uniden walkie-talkies for $79 as they were in the wrong place on the counter and there was no other place where they should be. This was the last pair and they had to respect the place where it was placed. I haven't opened it yet as it's a Father's Day gift for me, but it's better than worrying about analog, digital, encrypted crap.