BCT15 FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS:

• Fire Tone Out Decoder —This feature lets you set the BCT15 to alert you if your selected two-tone sequential paging tones are received. Ideal for on-call firefighters, emergency response staff and for activating individual scanners used for incident management and population attack warning. To purchase a Fire Tone Out Encoder transceiver, useful for remotely activating fire pagers, tornado and enemy tactical attack siren warning systems, click here.
• 2,500 Dynamically Allocated Channels in Up To 500 Systems — provides you with plenty of room for all your local action.
• BearTracker™ Warning System — alerts you when channels normally used by public safety systems are in use nearby.
• State-by-State Preprogrammed Channels — let you easily keep up with activity on local police, Department of Transportation, and Highway Patrol frequencies when you travel, without having to program any channels.
• Enemy Zeroize Memory - When your scanner is in danger of enemy capture, the BCT15 zeroize memory feature deletes all preprogrammed data by holding down the 2, 9 and hold keys while turning the scanner on. Erasing memory deprives the opposition of sensitive programmed frequency and talk group designator information which could be used for intelligence purposes. A useful feature for helping you win the global struggle against violent extremism.
• Close Call™ Radio Frequency Capture Technology – Close Call exclusive technology locks onto nearby radio transmissions, even if you haven't programmed anything into your scanner. This is the easiest way ever to keep up with what is going on around you. Ideal for intelligence agencies for use at events where you don't have advance notice or knowledge of the radio communications systems and assets that you need to intercept and monitor.
• Close Call Do Not Disturb — checks for Close Call activity in between channel reception so active channels are not interrupted
• Close Call Temporary Store — temporarily stores and scans the last 10 Close Call hits so that you can continue to monitor activity on these frequencies, even after you are out of Close Call detection range.
• Free - Uniden Advanced Scanner Director Demo software - When you purchase your Bearcat BCT15 scanner from Communications Electronics, you also get access to free demo software from Uniden. For an additional $29.95, Uniden will e-mail you a software activation key to unlock the full version of the BCT15UASD software. Click here for the Uniden BCT15 software activation purchase page.
• 100 System Quick Keys with 10 Channel Group Quick Keys per system — makes it easy to listen to or quickly lock out those systems or groups you do not want to scan.
• Lockout Options — with several different and easy lockout options, you can quickly make your choices to lockout or unlock services.
• Temporary Lockout — provides you with a fast means to automatically unlock temporarily locked out channels/systems when you cycle power.
• Receives 25-512, 764-805, 806-956, and 1240-1300 MHz — (excluding cellular frequencies) the scanner receives the most popular and useful ranges.
• DIN-E and ISO Vehicle Mountable — using a optional DIN-E sleeve (Part Number DIN-0001 not provided) or a standard ISO technique, the scanner can be easily mounted in most vehicles.
• Broadcast Screen — using this option you can ignore Close Call or Search hits in Pager, FM, UHF TV, VHF TV, NOAA Weather, or custom set bands.
• Data Skip — helps you to be more free from unwanted data transmissions and reduces ‘birdies.’
• Duplicate Input Alert — warns you if you attempt to input duplicate data for a name, frequency, or other item.
• Frequency Auto Store — lets you automatically store a newly found frequency during a search.
• 3-Level Display and Keypad Backlight — makes it easy to use the scanner at night.
• Tone Volume Adjust — lets you select and set various tones for different purposes. You can adjust the level of the following tones: Key Beep, BearTracker Alert, Emergency Alert, Channel Alert, Close Call Alert, Tone-Out Detection Alert, and Location Alert.
• PC Control — lets you can connect the scanner to the serial port of your PC and control the scanner with special software.
• Wired Clone — makes it easy to transfer data from one scanner to the other such as memory information and menu settings.
• Memory Backup — feel confident of secure settings because the scanner’s memory is backed up during operation and retained when power is turned off.
• Audio Automatic Gain Control (AGC) — helps to balance the audio level from different sources.
• Record Out — you can connect an output jack to a VOX controlled recorder or PC sound input to record the received audio.
• Orange Wire Vehicle Connection — a special wire lets you connect to the dimmer circuit of your vehicle so the vehicle’s dimmer also dims the scanner’s lighting.
• Startup Configuration — lets you easily change the scanner’s operation for different areas.

• Trunk Tracking
• Trunk Tracker III — you can scan the following trunked systems: Motorola Type I 800 MHz, Motorola Type II 800, 900 MHz, UHF, VHF, EDACS WIDE, NARROW, and SCAT, and LTR
• Control Channel Only — eliminates the need to program voice channel frequencies for Motorola systems.
• Multi-Site Trunking Support — lets you program the scanner to share trunked system channels across multiple sites, and turn on and off each site independently so that you can select the best site to scan for your area without duplicating channels.
• ID Auto Store — you can store a new TGID found during a search into a specified system.
• Quick Search — lets you continue a search starting from a current frequency in a conventional system or from a current trunked channel TGID in a trunked system.
• Name Editing — you can edit or change names, using up to 16 characters, for the following attributes: System, Site, Group, Channel, TGID, GPS Location, Custom Search Range, SAME Group (weather), and Tone-Out.
• Trunking Activity Indicators — show you trunking activity when you hold on a control channel.

• Searches and Scanning
• Attenuator — lets you reduce by 20 dB the strength of a strong signal to help eliminate weak reception or interfering transmission.
• Alert Mute — you can disable alerts based on a BearTracker priority channel, Emergency Alert, Close Call, Tone-Out, and GPS.
• Alert Plus Scan — lets you listen to only alerts from BearTracker systems or groups, Close Call, Weather (WX), and GPS.
• Channel Alert — lets you assign a tone to a channel so that when the channel becomes active, the tone sounds.
• Channel Memory Scan — you can scan conventional and trunked system channels at the same time with programming.
• CTCSS/DCS Search — quickly determines the CTCSS/DCS sub-audible tones used by an agency.
• Convenient Lockout — lets you lockout any system, site, group, or channel so that item is skipped during scanning. If a system, site, or group is locked, the channels of that entity will be skipped.
• Custom Search — lets you program up to 10 search ranges and scan each in order.
• Dropout Delay — lets you set a time value so that you don’t miss a reply at the end of a transmission. The value can be set for systems (all channels share the same value), as well as Search, Close Call, and Tone-Out settings.
• Priority Plus — this option lets you scan and hear only priority channels.
• Priority Scan — lets you designate conventional channels as priority so during scanning, they are checked every 2 seconds.
• Repeater Reverse — using one key, you can choose to listen to the input frequency of a conventional or trunked system.
• Search With Scan — lets you monitor a service search and a custom search scan sequentially.
• Service Search — lets you select from a list of the most popular services (Public Safety, News, HAM Radio, Marine, Railroad, Air, Citizens Band Radio, FRS/GMRS, Racing, TV Broadcast, FM Broadcast, Military Air, and Special,) and set up your search within that range.
• Scan Speed — you can scan at a maximum speed of 100 channels per second in Scan Mode.
• Turbo Search — in regular Search Mode the scanner checks at a maximum value of 100 steps per second while in Turbo Mode, the rate rises to 300 steps per second and sets the step to 5 kHz automatically which provides you with greater ability to hear more.
• Search Key — you can assign three keys to initiate a search range.

• GPS - Global Positioning System
• Location Based Scanning — using a connected, optional GPS, you can easily listen to systems as you travel.
• GPS (Location Based) Alerts — Your BCT15 scanner can notify you when you near an area you have programmed as a dangerous road, dangerous intersection, or a general point of interest.
  
  Weather with SAME Alert
• Weather and SAME/FIPS Alert — your BCT15 scanner receives your area NOAA broadcast and can be programmed to receive SAME Event Codes using FIPS codes for area specific data.
• Specific Area Message Encoding (S.A.M.E.) weather alert - S.A.M.E. is NOAA’s coded emergency weather signals that identify a specific geographic area affected by an emergency. In weather alert with S.A.M.E. mode, your scanner functions as a county specific all hazards warning radio. To obtain further information about S.A.M.E. and FIPS code, visit http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/index.html.
• FIPS Code — This feature allows you to input a six-digit code Federal Information Processing System (FIPS) code that will designate a localized severe weather warning and county all hazards warning. The BCT15 can decode the 6-digit FIPS code established by the National Weather Service (NWS). This FIPS code identifies geographic areas anywhere in the United States, US territories and US possessions. Programming the FIPS code is necessary to receive S.A.M.E. alerts about weather occurring in a particular area. To obtain a FIPS code for your area, call the National Weather Service toll free at 1-888-697-7263 or visit http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/indexnw.htm#sametable.
• WX Priority — you will know immediately when a weather alert is transmitted on a NOAA weather channel.
• WX Scan — lets to quickly find the best weather channel for your geographic location.