Hi Bill,
> The BC-200XLT is an exception to Uniden's "radio on a chip" philosophy. 
> It is
> well made and almost.....almost up to what I want in my scanners.  I do
Mine has been with me for about 7 years with no problems. The only thing I
did when I first got it was to replace the charger with something a little
less robust. The original Uniden charger would heat the battery pack up
something fierce in less than an hour.  
> to give it credit, despite the fact that it has an imbecile clone, the
> BC-100XLT,
> that has 100-channels and no 800 MHz capability.  The boards for
> the two radios are the same.  Theoretically, one could add the memory
> chips
> and peripheral parts, and an 800-MHz strip board to the BC-100XLT and
> come up
> with a BC-200XLT.  I loathe manufacturing like that, but it apparently
> saves the company a fistfull of money.
Reminds me of some calculators... Back in college when a number of us had
similar units, we opened up a cheapie, and found all the bells and whistles
on the inside, with just a keypad overlay to block out the buttonless holes.
Even the membrane was fully intact.  Back to that almighty buck again...
> weeks, and will have a fuller report of its guts and lugnuts in the near
> future.
Sounds good.
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