The Uniden BC-245XLT hand-held

Accessories:

If you are like me and need to power your 245 both home and at work you caneither order another wall wart from Uniden or do what I did and get a 12V500ma AC adapter from Radio Shack catalog no. 273-1773 and selected the Adaptaplug tip adapter catalog no. 273-1711 (orange - positive tip)

To connect the 245 to a Palm hand-held computer first obtain the HotSync cable part no. 10104U. Next you will require a male-male null modem 9 pin adapter. I made one using Radio Shack parts catalog numbers 26-280B (Serial Gender Changer 9-pin) & 26-264 (9 pin Null Modem Adapter) but you can also use a "null-modem" male to male cable to connect the BC-245 remote cable from the BC-245 and the Palm HotSync cable together.

An excellent addition to the BC245 would be the high-gain Diamond RH-77CA whip antenna. It received good results during Rich Wells tests.

Mailing Lists:

BC245XLT
The Uniden Discussion List
bc245int_new - Announcement list for the Senss bc245int software - Note that there has not been a new release in some time now.
bc245int - Discussion list for the Senss bc245int software
TrunkCom - Trunkscanner Discussion list
SCAN-L - Nationwide scanner discussion list

Software:

First check out Strong Signals for the latest software info.

• Senss BC-245 Computer Interface (bc245int) V.2.4.1 (Windows) - (Update for 2.4.3) - Tutorial for bc245int can be found here [mirror] - Yahoo Group - Listen remote control of the BC245 via TCP/IP.
  
• (new) BC245XLT Uniden Bearcat Remote Control software.
  
• BC245XLT Scanner Backup Utility (windows)
  
• Scancat Gold (windows)
  
• Radio Manager for Windows (windows)
  
• (new) Control Freq Jr - (Review) - (Tutorial)
  
• (new) AFS780 - Spreadsheet Programming for the 780/245 - (review)
  
• Winscan
  
• sctl for Linux and Unix systems
  
• AirScan (freeware)
  
• e2a (DOS) - Converts ETrunk GRP files into Uniden AFS format
  
• COM101 - "COM101 is software for Uniden scanner clone data transfer. It has not been tested in Windows 2000 or XP. There are already two or three clone programs for Uniden scanners, but they all have limitations - slow data transfer, data errors, failure to support all models, or inability to run in DOS. COM101 solves most of these problems, supporting the BC245XLT, SC200, and BC/UBC780XLT. It runs best in DOS and works with occasional data errors in Windows. Reading from the scanner is where the problems occur since handshaking with the radio is required. The larger the amount of data to transfer, the greater the chance of an error. The BC780XLT has the largest clone data file and is more likely to see an error than the other models. If the program runs for you, great. If not, I cannot provide any support in debugging the problem." - I cannot seem to locate COM101 anywhere but it once was found here.
  
  RS-232 Remote Mode command set info can be found at here [mirror] and here [mirror].
  

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