Uniden BC72XLT Review
The Uniden BC72XLT scanner is a good choice for budget-conscious NASCAR fans who do not mind extra work configuring their scanner before the race and in between races. If you attend many different series races or if you have trouble programming your VCR or DVD recorder, then you probably rather want to look at the Uniden SC-230 NASCAR scanner.
The Uniden BC72XLT is not preconfigured as a NASCAR scanner. It comes preprogrammed with the frequencies used for weather, ham, marine, aircraft, police, and fire services. It has 100 channels, and this can be a deal breaker for some people, especially those who attend different series races. With so many different frequencies being used you spend a lot of time reconfiguring your scanner to monitor communications of the different races.
If you can afford it, go up one model to the Uniden BC95XLT scanner, which has 200 channels. Unlike the BC95XT, you cannot connect the BC72XT to your computer.
As with the BC95XLT, the manual is not really going to help you with configuring it specifically for NASCAR races. The manual has general configuration and usage instructions.
Key Benefits of the Uniden BC72XLT Scanner
- The most affordable scanner for NASCAR fans that go to the races quite often.
- Really easy to keep up with the action at the racetrack. You can listen to drivers communicating with their pit crews, officials communicating with drivers and crews, and track workers communicating with everybody.
- You can catch all the communication of your favorite drivers by marking their channels as priority channels.
- You can lockout certain channels so that the scanner will ignore broadcasts on those frequencies.
- The scanner is compact and easy to carry around with a belt clip that comes with it. If you want a headset, the Stereophone Headset works well with it. The tall antenna can be replaced with the Uniden Stubby Antenna for Scanners.
- With a Uniden RT66 Headphone Splitter both you and your partner can listen to the scanner.
- Once it’s set up, you won’t miss out on a driver communication. The BC72XLT scans programmed channels until it finds an active frequency, then stops on that frequency and remains on that channel as long as the transmission continues. When the transmission ends, the scanning cycle resumes until the scanner receives another transmission.
- Between races you can reconfigure the scanner to listen to weather, ham, marine, aircraft, police, or fire transmissions.
Summary of the Uniden BC72XLT Features
- 100 Channels.
- Designed to be compact for added flexibility and portability.
- Close Call™ RF Capture Technology that instantly tunes to signals from nearby transmitters
- Frequency Coverage of 25-54, 108-174, 400-512 MHz
- 10 Programmable Search Ranges that helps you find unlisted frequencies in use in your area.
- Backlit Display makes it easier to read the display in low light conditions.
- 2 AA Battery Operation with Alkaline for long life and rechargeable batteries for economy.
- Priority Scan that frequently scans the channels you have designated as priority channels.
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