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Zigg

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#299202 20-Aug-2022 11:23
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Uniden Bearcat UBC355XLT Desktop/Mobile Radio Scanner

 

Analogue scanner

 

 

 

Purchased in July 2020. I haven’t used it much, however I did list it on Trade Me last December and the winning bidder picked it up that evening. At 6AM next morning he was banging on my door “you sold be a FN faulty unit”.... OK, news to me. Likely a case of RTFM as it is a bit complicated to tune manually – it came back on the same frequency I left it on. I used a BNC -> RF adapter and ran it off my UHF TV aerial. I couldn’t get a signal from the supplied antennas, thought that may be down to my location -. So those may be a) faulty, b) crappy, or c) perfectly fine and my location is too far from the transmitter. Link to sound file recorded last week off the UHF aerial – seems ok for a “fn faulty unit”. https://mega.nz/file/pctGjbJL#p2sqRF15ogx-1y7ut05AKZc1cq-e5Ctm_G3IKASH3RM

 

 

 

$110 shipped

 

 

 

 

 


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  #2958727 24-Aug-2022 12:09
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Still available?




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  #2958730 24-Aug-2022 12:27
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Sure is


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  #2958756 24-Aug-2022 13:22
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I thought all the emergency services and the like all moved to digital ?




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  #2958758 24-Aug-2022 13:26
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Firstly, there's plenty to listen to that isn't emergency services.

 

Secondly, Police in the main centres and Ambulance (at least in Wellington) are digital... but the rest of NZ and pretty much every other service out there is still mostly analogue.




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  #2958763 24-Aug-2022 13:57
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Remember my old Bearcat.... was fun tuning into everything going on around the place. Remember when there was an idiot threatening to fly into Sky Tower, all the chatter from emergency services trying to clear out the tower/casino.

 

 





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  #2958788 24-Aug-2022 14:18
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Goosey:

I thought all the emergency services and the like all moved to digital ?



Nope

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  #2960998 29-Aug-2022 22:18
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Hi mate, is this still available?


Zigg

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  #2961076 30-Aug-2022 10:38
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Yes, still available


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  #2961234 30-Aug-2022 16:58
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SOLD. Cheers 👍


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