Mine came with dead batteries and a corrupted SD card

Today the rechargeable battery that came with it had a meltdown

works awesome,i just put the batteries in and zip code and it did the rest

Battery life (this will ruin your rechargeable batteries

Needs better battery life though.

Now to find good rechargeable batteries for back up purpose (that do not heat up and get really hot).

rechargeable battery failed during first week.

Terrible battery life

I definitely plan to buy replacement cells and an external smart battery charger.

Also, the rechargeable batteries were junk and had to be replaced.

This unit runs on 3 AA batteries which they include, one of mine was a dud, get a cheap battery checker, buy a spare set of 2400 NiMh and a good slow charger.

but if you're looking for the phase 2 p25 systems this is the scanner to have now the downside you better have some hi capacity double A batteries in the charger ready to

Complaints were: short battery life, easily scratched and hard to program

The batteries I received give a battery error within the device.

You will need a good charger and 3 batteries to keep in the charger while 3 are in scanner

Don't charge in the radio, the batteries may get hot.

Instead, I received incorrect alkaline disposable batteries.

For $343 Warehouse deal it can't be beat arrived perfect except missing batteries ( OEM's are really cheap poor performers) and BNC/SMA antenna adaptor and manual

I know this is a great product b/c several of my friends have them, with that being said, this unit has been very difficult to program and is not the user friendly item it claims be

Second negative is the "Analyze" function does not work as it is described in the manual.

The VHF/UHF reception is about the same as my other units, as good as you'll probably ever need.

Excellent upgrade from my BC396T.

Excellent upgrade from my BC396T.