Consumer Electronics Equipment:
While looking for Land Mobile equipment manuals I stumbled across a consumer elctronics equipment owners manuals download web page. If you are looking for an owners manual on almost any current Uniden consumer product i.e. Cordless Phones, VoIP Phones, Business Phones, Marine Electronics, CB Radios, Scanners, Digital Cameras, GPS Navigation, Cellular Phones, Pagers, Radar Detectors, Satellite Receivers, Laptop and Palmsized Computers, Modems, etc. go to this Uniden page and select what you are looking for. Note that the "Two Way Radios" option is only bubble-packed consumer FRS radios, i.e. nothing in Land Mobile. And there is no older equipment listed.

Decoding the Uniden / Bearcat product date codes... The information below is from an ex-scanner shop employee. The sticker format below may be limited to Bearcat scanners, or may be Uniden-wide.

Bearcat scanners were (maybe still are) made by Uniden. Each one has a sticker on the back, or maybe inside the battery compartment. The date code sticker was introduced for warranty purposes.
The date code consists of a two character code representing the month followed by another two character code representing the year.
The code uses letters instead of digits: 0=0, A=1, B=2, C=3, D=4, E=5, F=6, G=7, H=8, I=9
For example,
0CHB would decode to March 1982 since 0C = March (C=3, the third month of the year), the last two are HB and H=8, B=2)
0GIE would decode to July 1995 since 0G = July (G=7, seventh month of the year), the last two are IE = 95 (I=9, E=5)
AB0E would decode to December 2005 since AB = 12 (December), the last two are 0E = 05 (0=0, E=5)

Scanners, etc:

Uniden BC-210 scanner owners manual   256 Kb PDF file

Uniden BC-210 scanner service manual   3.2 Mb PDF file

Uniden BC-220 scanner service manual   3.8 Mb PDF file

Uniden BC-210XL scanner owners manual   4 Mb PDF file

Uniden BC-220 scanner service manual   4 Mb PDF file

Anyone have the owners manual, service manual and software for the MR8100 scanner?

A note on the Uniden MR8100 Scanner: Introduced in 1989, this was one of the first scanners that had a serial port and matching computer software that could load the preprogrammed channels, in this case 10 banks of 10. The advertised frequency range was 29-54, 118-174, 406-512, 806-956 MHz in AM and FM.   This was not the "full" range, and the full range could be unlocked if you knew the secret key...In the Uniden software press <Alt>P and use the password 'ECPA1986'. (Interesting choice of a password).

Land Mobile Equipment:
Repeater-Builder is looking for articles on the Uniden desktop repeaters (especially the ARH-351, ARU251 and ARU351), and other land mobile equipment such as the AMX-501, SMH-400G, SPU416K, etc.   Also any programming software.   Uniden Land Mobile Radio is pretty much long gone (the company focus is in other markets) so there's not much available to support any use of their equipment. The equipment is pretty much useless unless you have everything to place it in service... and I mean everything. So anything that is made available here will help the rest of us continue to use the Uniden equipment that is out there. And donations can be made anonymously.

S-COM 5K to Uniden ARU-251 Interface Article in PDF   Information provided by S-COM LLC, PDF'd by Kevin K. Custer W3KKC
The other Scom models interface the same, all you have to do is to compensate for the connector pin number differences (see the Scom page for a single sheet-summary of pin numbers)

Uniden ARH351 manual   22.5 Mb PDF file

Uniden ARU251 manual   15 Mb PDF file

Uniden WX-100 weather reciver manual   267 Kb PDF file

Uniden WX-500 weather reciver manual   230 Kb PDF file

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