Les, I’m sure Uniden will make things right for you. On the rare occasion that I have needed their support it’s always been good. (What about HRO’s return policy do you find unlawful or

HRO would not replace (15 day return policy), so I shipped it to Uniden under mfr. warranty. As a 50+ year commercial law attorney I might have questioned HRO's return policy, but it wasn't worth

I wuuld agree that you may have a lemon. I have 4 BCT15X’s and 2 BCT15’s plus aa couple of 996xt’s, 2 SDS200’s and seveeral others and find them to be great scanners, but there is always that

The local NOAA signal is too strong for testing purposes, but I receive the Eastern Shore (162.5), about 30 miles away, 5-9 on the other radios. The 15X does not hear it at all. I won't open the radio

A cheap troubleshoot is to tune to a weak NOAA weather station and use a plastic probe to jiggle the connector inside from BNC connector and the board? Only a thought. Curt

I reprogrammed using ProScan, no attenuation either global or by system. I am avoiding anything that would invalidate the warranty. I propose to return it to the vendor for credit or exchange. Les,

Just a thought... They look like they just have smoke/soot damage. No obvious evidence of Fire or water damage. Have you tried cleaning them up, trying a power up? good luck either way... @.02

The 15X has both global and system attenuation. Check to see if that function has been activated in any way. David KJ6QKV

Les Crack the top case off, check the solder joint of the centre of the small piece of coax between the pcb and rear case mounted bnc socket. I have over the years found 3 whereby it was not soldered

Les Crack the top case off, check the solder joint of the centre of the small piece of coax between the pcb and rear case mounted bnc socket. I have over the years found 3 whereby it was not soldered

"Range" has nothing to do with actual reception, so setting it one way for conventional reception verses a different setting for trunked reception is irrelevant. What "Range" does is determines which

I conducted an A-B test with the BCD536, which won (although even that scanner does not pick up the BWI ATC the ICOMs receive). Interestingly, both Unidens had the same limited reception until I

Comparing a whip on a desk to an antenna in the attic is not necessarily a valid test. I have Hardy board siding, which proves to be an excellent RF shield (it's made of concrete, in part).

A good point; didn't consider it, since I don't have airbands programmed into the 536 (using it for local P25 Phase 1 public service). Will program in a conventional airband system and conduct an A-B

Obvious question: How does the 15 compare to the 536? If there is much of a difference, I would say there is an issue with the 15. S-meters, while they at one time were reliable indicators (pun

Interim Report: I tried different multicoupler ports and even the discone feeding 15X directly; as expected, the same results. A signal must be at least S7 on the ICOMs in order to break minimum

*Hi, I have about 5 different units covering several frequency ranges of the Stridesberg Engineering Multicouplers for many years. There are non-powered or 12vdc powered versions. They produce the

I have a Stridsberg multicoupler, it’s amplified. I find my 536 works better with the supplied whip antenna than with the discone on the multicoupler. I think the multicoupler overloads the

well, if you have attached the antenna directly to the radio (eliminating the multi coupler and the other radios) amd reception did not improve would that not point to the radio being the likely