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Uniden Bearcat UBC9000XLT

A very nice base scanner, with 500 channels in 20 banks. The only downside is that it does not support step sizes other than 5kHz/12.5kHz/25kHz. For PMR and some Air traffic channels, 6.25kHz and 8.33kHz are needed. But hey, it’s an older scanner and I bought it at a great price, so I’m not complaining.

There are 10 priority channels; the first channel in each A-J memory bank. I programmed the memory banks as follows:

Bank Channel Frequency Description
A 001 – 025 - Air traffic, Eurocontrol
B 026 – 050 - Air traffic, Dutch Mil
C 051 – 075 - -
D 076 – 100 - -
E 101 – 125 - -
F 126 – 150 - -
G 151 – 175 - -
H 176 – 200 - -
I 201 – 225 - -
J 226 – 250 - -
1 251 – 275 - -
2 276 – 300 - -
3 301 – 325 - -
4 326 – 350 - -
5 351 – 375 - CB channel 01 – 25
6 376 – 400 - CB channel 26 – 40
7 401 – 425 - LPD channel 01 – 25
8 426 – 450 - LPD channel 26 – 50
9 451 – 475 - LPD channel 51 – 69
0 476 – 500 - -

Some interesting air traffic frequencies:

  • 121.5000MHz (Air traffic emergency)
  • 124.5250 (Eindhoven Director)
  • 131.000 (Eindhoven Tower)
  • 132.7500 (Eurocontrol)
  • 132.8500 (Eurocontrol BE1)
  • 133.8500 (Eurocontrol Alternate)
  • 135.9750 (Eurocontrol AMS2)