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[Anonymous]

I am looking to purchasing a scanner. I am looking into the Uniden BC-246-T Compact Hand Held Scanner. The information I have found does not tell me if the scanner has AC-DC capabilities. Does anyone out there have this scanner? If you do how good is the scanner? can it be pluged into a wall outlet and an auto? Any help on this would be great.

Thanks..........Neal

[ezielinski]

Looking this unit up, I found:

Power Requirements:
2 AA Alkaline Batteries (3V DC),
or 2 AA Rechargeable Ni-MH Batteries (2.4V DC),
or AC Adapter (6 VDC 500mA) (AD-0008)

Doesn't say anyting about a car adapter, but I'm sure you can find something that will work at a store like Radio Shack.

[Anonymous]

EZIELINSKI: tthanks for the information. I have looked all over and couldn't find anything.

[CSXrules4eva]

If you are looking for good scanners you can go to beleive it or not, Radio Shack, all of there scanners are made by Uniden, which happens to be a very good communications equipment manufacturer. If you can afford it I would get a digital scanner, they are pretty expensive though they range somewhere in the 500 bucks range. Some of them have up to 1000 channels, if you are looking for something of that scale.

However, if you are only buying the scanner for railroad use only, I would just get an antilog 200 channel scanner, this way you can plug in all 96 of the AAR's channels.