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70 MONITORING TIMES December 2005

IRST LOOK

CONSUMER RADIOS AND ELECTRONICS

nyone who has followed this column

closely over the last year knows that

Uniden has been constantly raising the

bar with a line of new handheld scanners offering

the scanner hobbyist more listening capability.

Now, for the first time ever in the scanner mar-

ketplace, we have a wideband handheld scanner

with trunk trucking capability – the new Uniden

BR-330T handheld.

The BR-330T offers continuous frequency

coverage from 100 kHz to 1300 MHz (except for

the mobile and base cellular bands). Reception

modes include AM, narrowband FM and wide-

band FM. In addition to conventional scanning,

the BR-330T has Trunk Tracker III technology.

This will let the monitor follow unencrypted

conversations on analog Motorola, EDACS,

EDACS SCAT, and LTR trunk radio systems,

including systems in VHF, UHF, 700 MHz, 800

MHz and 900 MHz bands. The scanner can scan

both conventional and trunk systems at the same

time.

If the scanner is used to scan Motorola trunk

frequencies, you can set it so it scans using only

the system control channel frequency data. You

do not have to program all the trunk system

voice channel frequencies into memory in this

mode as long as all possible control channels are

programmed.

Like its 246/396 Uniden cousins, this scan-

ner uses dynamically assigned memory chan-

nels to store frequencies more efficiently than

conventional scanners. The 330T has 2,500 of

these memory channels used to store frequency,

talkgroup, and alphanumeric tag information.

This lets you organize the scanner's memory so

that it more closely matches how radio systems

actually work, making it easier to program and

use your scanner, and allowing you to determine

how much memory you have used and how much

you have left.

Using 99 quick keys, you can set the scanner

so you can quickly select systems and groups by

using the keypad. This makes it easy to listen to

or quickly lock out those systems or groups you

don’t want to scan.

❖ Preprogrammed

Frequencies

The BR-330T is preprogrammed with over

1,000 channels covering police, fire, and ambu-

lance operations in the 25 most populated coun-

ties in the U.S. and frequencies for many major

automobile races. For race track operations, you

can set it to scan races using a frequency list or

the frequencies preprogrammed into the scanner.

You can scan by car number and driver name,

assign the car to a quick key, and set the scanner

so it sounds an alert when the car you are scan-

ning transmits.

There are 13 service searches ranges preset

in separate public safety, TV/Radio services,

amateur radio, maritime, railroad, civilian air,

CB radio, FRS/GMRS frequencies, automobile

racing, special services, AM broadcasts, FM

broadcasts, and TV broadcasts.

The BR-330T also has a feature that lets

you include selected service searches or custom

search ranges during normal scan operation.

❖ Other Enhanced Features

Many of the features found in the more

expensive BCD396T have been incorporated into

the BR-330T. Here are a few of the most notable

ones.

Close Call RF Capture Technology – This

one feature that monitors have really enjoyed.

Recently at an airshow, a milair monitor was able

to find some new frequencies thanks to Close

Call. This model has a broadcast screen to set

the scanner to ignore Close Call or to search

hits on known broadcast frequencies, including

pager frequencies. It also has a custom screen

capability that lets you input up to 10 frequency

ranges that the scanner will ignore during Close

Call or search operation.

You can lock out any system, group, fre-

quency, or channel while scanning or searching.

If you lock out a system or group, any channels

belonging to that system or group are also locked

out. You can lock out up to 200 frequencies and

review all locked-out frequencies. The scanner

skips locked-out frequencies while using the

Close Call feature or while searching.

The 330T incorporates the fast CTCSS

and DCS squelch modes search and store. You

can see the CTCSS/DCS tone on a programmed

memory channel or during searches if this func-

tion is selected.

First introduced in the 396, this scanner also

has fire tone-out standby. This feature lets you set

the scanner to alert you if a two-tone sequential

page is transmitted. You can set up to 10 settings

(transmit frequency, tone frequencies) then select

one of those presets for standby monitoring.

Repeater reverse lets you set the scanner

so it switches to the input frequency on a con-

ventional repeater system. Channel alert allows

you to set the scanner so it alerts you when there

is activity on any channel you specify. For each

alert in the scanner (such as channel alert, Close

Call alert, emergency alert), you can select from

nine different tone patterns and also set the alert

volume level independently from the main vol-

ume level.

Automatic channel step accepts frequencies

on any valid channel step, even if it does not fall

within the band plan’s default step. Frequency step

lets you select a frequency step (5, 6.25, 7.5, 8.33,

9, 10, 12.5,15, 20, 25, 50 or 100 kHz) for manual

mode and chain search mode. The scanner’s auto

Uniden BR-330T

A Wideband Scanner with Trunk Tracking – Finally!

By Larry Van Horn, N5FPW

MT First Look Rating (0-10 scale)

Audio Quality ....................................... 8

Audio Levels .........................................9

Back light/Display ................................8

Battery Life ........................................... 8

Ease of use ..........................................8

Feature Set .......................................... 8

Keyboard/Button/Control Layout .......... 8

Overall Construction ............................ 8

Overall Reception ................................. 8

Overall Manual .................................... 7

Sensitivity ............................................. 8

Selectivity ............................................. 7

MT Rating: 4 1/4 Stars

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