I started listening to the railroad frequencies recently. A lot of good stuff to listen in. I have the BCD 325P2, and looks like this will do the same as the 160.
really hoping this scanner becomes available soon since my local railroad is switching to NXDN in the coming weeks, and my current scanner will no longer be able to scan it. this scanner seems perfect for railfanning
@@olo-burrows I'm talking about Uniden's "One Frequency Trunk" which is required to be able to scan/display TGs. It looks like now, the scanner will just show the Color Code or RAN. It will not show talkgroups or Radio IDs (RIDs)
@@WXFD-Media Meh. At this point you're better off getting a Real Radio that does NXDN natively. Better receive sensitivity, better rejection of undesired signals, probably better digital decoding to boot. I wonder if Uniden still cheaped out on what they call "narrowband" by just boosting the audio volume without actually narrowing the I.F. bandpass?
I know you mentioned that sensitivity seems to be real good on the rail band. Does the sensitivity seek to be good for all VHF conventional, as well as air bands?
The reason I’m asking all these questions are I’m looking to buy a scanner I have scanners but not digital I need one that can get police and all the safety options I live in Ontario Canada witch one would you get the BCD160 or BCD260
Looks like this is strictly for railfans. I hope someday, Uniden will also bring in some monitoring units for the Hams that include D-star and fusion, in addition to the NXDN and DMR.
I like that the scanner will have NXDN/DMR included. But that creates another issue. On a lesser featured scanner,Uniden includes it. On their full featured top of the line scanners, they charge an extra fee on top of the hefty price people already paid for the scanners. Someone care to explain that and make it sound logical?
@@theinspirationchannel2063 this scanner would be about $150 less without NXDN/DMR. the top of the line would go from $699 to about $750 if it was included. Not everyone wants it. Uniden has to pay a fee to the owners of the various decoding software.
@@theinspirationchannel2063 Because Mother Motorola has a lock on public safety radios and VLSI is the monopoly provider of the AMBE and IMBE P25 codecs (intellectual property is a sacred cow) so if you want to play in the P25 game, you gotta pay for each and every VLSI chipset or use of their algorithm in each piece of your own hardware. THAT is why P25 scanners are so expensive. If they keep adding and adding you're talking about a scanner that is too expensive for most people to buy, so why bother? Hams and railfans are notoriously cheap while radios are getting expensive. Do the math.
Here in Phoenix the RR workers get really weird at night, they scream, say crazy stuff and they fight over the air. I wonder if there boss is listening? They are so unprofessional over the air.
I can do $150 for the handheld and $250 for the base model. Just buying these as a ham and hobbyist, as I already have plenty of other scanners. Priced any higher and I’ll just wait for their new P25 scanner instead and skip these. And for the love of Pete-DO NOT skip out on providing a quality keypad. The keypad buttons on my BCD396XT, BC125AT AND my BCD436HP have rubbed off. That shouldn’t happen. At the very LEAST at least have the courtesy of keeping in stock replacement keypads. How about a run of 5,000 replacement keypads please?
One trick (that drives Uniden crazy) is coating the buttons with a protective finish, a la lacquer or something modern. Don't know if that would gum up the buttons from pushing, though.
Radio Reference is the absolute WORST database of railroad frequencies. Lindsay set up the database for public safety which is divided among political jurisdictions. Railroads cross all those boundaries and have their own borders which don't line up with the RadRef database. Plus, I've noted a lot of outdated info on there since railfans typically hang out elsewhere and don't even bother with RadRef; it's just a different world.
The reason being, people who add these frequencies to their database are casual listeners and do not spend a lot of time researching. Thats where you come in. Send the scan list you have and they will add them in.
@@larrybragg7406 I have submitted updates in the past, but they get blended in with the ideas of that particular DB admin and other submissions already there, so it becomes hopelessly confused. Railroading is just such a different animal from public safety scanning that the uninitiated just can't grok the needs of the railfan. I rely on web sites and lists published by people who actually get it, but those must be searched out and hunted down. What we really need is a RailReference database.
excellent
Thank you for the information.
You are welcome!
Great videos can you pick up the police on the BCD 160DN
I started listening to the railroad frequencies recently. A lot of good stuff to listen in. I have the BCD 325P2, and looks like this will do the same as the 160.
Oh yeah one more question I know I ask about can you get the police but can you get ambulance and fire as well thanks for the help awesome videos
really hoping this scanner becomes available soon since my local railroad is switching to NXDN in the coming weeks, and my current scanner will no longer be able to scan it. this scanner seems perfect for railfanning
Needs to have trunking to be able to support DMR NXDN talk groups and RIDS, even on conventional
If it's conventional, the "trunk" is the single frequency. Just like community repeaters with multiple PL tones. Nobody would call that trunking.
@@olo-burrows I'm talking about Uniden's "One Frequency Trunk" which is required to be able to scan/display TGs. It looks like now, the scanner will just show the Color Code or RAN. It will not show talkgroups or Radio IDs (RIDs)
@@WXFD-Media Meh. At this point you're better off getting a Real Radio that does NXDN natively. Better receive sensitivity, better rejection of undesired signals, probably better digital decoding to boot.
I wonder if Uniden still cheaped out on what they call "narrowband" by just boosting the audio volume without actually narrowing the I.F. bandpass?
I know you mentioned that sensitivity seems to be real good on the rail band. Does the sensitivity seek to be good for all VHF conventional, as well as air bands?
Yes, both radios seem to work really well on all bands.
The reason I’m asking all these questions are I’m looking to buy a scanner I have scanners but not digital I need one that can get police and all the safety options I live in Ontario Canada witch one would you get the BCD160 or BCD260
will it auto detect Colour Code and Time Slot if it picks up a CLOSE CALL DMR signal?
Looks like this is strictly for railfans. I hope someday, Uniden will also bring in some monitoring units for the Hams that include D-star and fusion, in addition to the NXDN and DMR.
Why stop at DMR/NXDN and not add at least P25 non trunking capability?
it will almost be yet another BCD325P2
I think they are trying to control the cost.
I like that the scanner will have NXDN/DMR included. But that creates another issue. On a lesser featured scanner,Uniden includes it. On their full featured top of the line scanners, they charge an extra fee on top of the hefty price people already paid for the scanners. Someone care to explain that and make it sound logical?
@@theinspirationchannel2063 this scanner would be about $150 less without NXDN/DMR. the top of the line would go from $699 to about $750 if it was included. Not everyone wants it. Uniden has to pay a fee to the owners of the various decoding software.
@@theinspirationchannel2063 Because Mother Motorola has a lock on public safety radios and VLSI is the monopoly provider of the AMBE and IMBE P25 codecs (intellectual property is a sacred cow) so if you want to play in the P25 game, you gotta pay for each and every VLSI chipset or use of their algorithm in each piece of your own hardware. THAT is why P25 scanners are so expensive. If they keep adding and adding you're talking about a scanner that is too expensive for most people to buy, so why bother?
Hams and railfans are notoriously cheap while radios are getting expensive. Do the math.
Here in Phoenix the RR workers get really weird at night, they scream, say crazy stuff and they fight over the air. I wonder if there boss is listening? They are so unprofessional over the air.
I can do $150 for the handheld and $250 for the base model. Just buying these as a ham and hobbyist, as I already have plenty of other scanners.
Priced any higher and I’ll just wait for their new P25 scanner instead and skip these. And for the love of Pete-DO NOT skip out on providing a quality keypad. The keypad buttons on my BCD396XT, BC125AT AND my BCD436HP have rubbed off. That shouldn’t happen. At the very LEAST at least have the courtesy of keeping in stock replacement keypads. How about a run of 5,000 replacement keypads please?
One trick (that drives Uniden crazy) is coating the buttons with a protective finish, a la lacquer or something modern. Don't know if that would gum up the buttons from pushing, though.
Radio Reference is the absolute WORST database of railroad frequencies. Lindsay set up the database for public safety which is divided among political jurisdictions. Railroads cross all those boundaries and have their own borders which don't line up with the RadRef database. Plus, I've noted a lot of outdated info on there since railfans typically hang out elsewhere and don't even bother with RadRef; it's just a different world.
The reason being, people who add these frequencies to their database are casual listeners and do not spend a lot of time researching. Thats where you come in. Send the scan list you have and they will add them in.
@@larrybragg7406 I have submitted updates in the past, but they get blended in with the ideas of that particular DB admin and other submissions already there, so it becomes hopelessly confused. Railroading is just such a different animal from public safety scanning that the uninitiated just can't grok the needs of the railfan. I rely on web sites and lists published by people who actually get it, but those must be searched out and hunted down. What we really need is a RailReference database.
You can skip the first 6 minutes.
Seems like a waste of a scanner, would've rather seen them come out with another scanner that offers P25 trunking.
Yeah, because there just aren't enough P25 scanners out there already!
There are only like 5 scanners that can do phase 2 P25 trunking.
@@ROCnRobert9802hi saw your comment I’m new to train scanning I have pro-94 radio shack is this a good scanner for railroads thank you bruce