uniden bearcat scanner

[shakuna]

greetings all. i just purchased a new bearcat 250 channel scanner w/trunk III. now i can monitor ham bands and all with no worries. this way i can listen and enjoy the many conversations from ameature ham operator's. its the uniden bct8 model.

very nice looking and has many features. i was wondering if anyone has 1 and knows of any cb or ham channels i could program in , when it arrives in 5 days?

since i like listening to people chat , this is a good way for me since i don,t have a ham base or lsb/usb cb yet.
i read upon on some of the reviews and most liked the model version. so any opinnions or ferquencies for me to program would be greatly apprecited.

thanks so much and god bless. have a great week everyone.

[Smokey6791]

I have that same model if you plan on using it in a car get an external antenna for it. It comes preprogramed for all 50 states with the most common emegency frequencies. Go to http://www.radioreference.com/ to lookup all your local freqs.

[shakuna]

ty smokey. i shall do so . i,ll look for a antenna for it to use in the car. mostly though it will be in door use, so i can sit and listen to the fine folks talk on ham and cb at times.

plus i,ll just go through some of the freq. to see where most of the ameature peeps are talking.

['Doc]

You might look for something called a 'Repeater Directory' for the VHF/UHF amateur bands. It will list the various repeaters by state and band. I'd try the ones close to you first, others later maybe. I can tell you that an outdoor antenna as high as you can get it will do better than any indoor antenna on VHF/UHF. Most scanners aren't too 'picky' about the antenna they are offered. Special scanner antennas can be nice, but a long, tall piece of wire will probably do just about as well. The -key- to any VHF/UHF antenna is height! More is better till it gets absolutely ridiculous.
Have fun.
- 'Doc