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Pros & Cons
Pros
Product is quick and easy to deal with. Works great. Speedy delivery.
The trendnet usb to serial converter tu-s9 (blue) serial adapter works with windows 10 and bcd396t. The cable has a bc246t compatible connector on one end, a usb on the other and a small blob in the middle that does the required usb to serial magic. S... Read More
Cons
This cable is way too fragile. The usb 1 is also too short for most practical applications. If you going to sell and item you should put the proper info in the description and state it's compatibility.
Highlights
Quality
Great interface between scanner radio and computer!
Worked great and i was able to upgrade my bcd396t scanner without issue!
Simply plugged in this cable and verified it showed up error free in device manager.
I ordered this cable for my now obsolete uniden bc95xlt scanner because i got tired of manually reprogramming it.
Price
Expensive but works perfectly with my scanner
It performs as expected, but at twice what it should cost for what is essentially a usb to serial adapter with a custom connector.
Shipping
I was a little concerned when this arrived with no instructions, but i contacted the seller and they sent a link to uniden's dr... Read More
Packaging/appearance
The cable arrived in a plastic bag, with a sticker over the standard usb plug which warned to install the driver software befor... Read More
Competitiveness
Other popular radio/scanner programming software like chirp does not recognize this old scanner.
Worked like a charm and would rather spend the extra money to get a brand name items sometimes instead of an off brand.
But after a little googling i found drivers on uniden's website, as well as what appeared to be more current drivers on the sca... Read More
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great, needed, radio, described and serial. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
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- This product had a total of 552 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 22 2024.
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I ordered this cable for my now obsolete uniden bc95xlt scanner because i got tired of manually reprogramming it
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The software arc95 was 34supposedly34 still available so i downloaded it and when i plugged the cable in it recognized the scanner but the software was a demo version that would only allow downloading the first three banks they appear to be out of business so you cant upgrade
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Other popular radioscanner programming software like chirp does not recognize this old scanner
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Worked like a charm and would rather spend the extra money to get a brand name items sometimes instead of an off brand
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I was a little concerned when this arrived with no instructions but i contacted the seller and they sent a link to unidens driver download site
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Plugged the cable into the pc and the driver connected it to com port 3 when i looked in devices
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Dont forget to download the usb1 driver from the uniden website for it to work
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Im using this with the arcxt basic software running on a win10p64 vm using virtualbox on my imac
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