Welcome to bcTool

bcTool is designed to be a simple, easy to use and above all free application to help you program, control, log and configure your Uniden Bearcat Dynamic Memory Scanner.

Works with all DMA-based Uniden Bearcat scanners, including the BC246T, SC230, BR330T, UBC3500XLT, BCT15, BCD396T, UBC800XLT and BCD996T - all using one free application!

Latest News

29/06/2008 - Happy Birthday bcTool!

bcTool is exactly one year old today - the day I purchased my UBC3500XLT. Here's to the next 12 months :)

11/05/2008 - 1.3r1 Released!

bcTool 1.3r1 has finally been released! It is not yet available via the 'Check for Updates' feature, but you can download it from the Download page on this site. This release features a massive number of improvements over 1.2r1, tens of new features, stability improvements, performance improvements, improvements to programming reliability - the best bcTool yet!

27/03/2008 - UBC800XLT Support!

The latest Uniden scanner, the UBC800XLT, is now fully supported in the latest bcTool beta release! If you'd like to download the latest beta releases, please join the Yahoo!group.

17/03/2008 - Server Maintenance

The server which handles bctool.org and all of my email will be offline for most of Tuesday, 18th March 2008 while it is replaced with a new one. If you email me while it's down, the mail will be delayed. The bcTool website will be unavailable for most of the day as well, but should be back by the evening. The Yahoo! group will continue to operate as normal during this time!

12/03/2008 - bcTool update

Interested in beta testing the latest releases of bcTool? If so, please head over to our Yahoo! Group and join up! The latest beta releases have full support for the SC230 and BC246T models, along with a vast number of improvements and bug fixes over 1.2r1, and a full release should be made available within the next week!

25/01/2008 - bcTool released!

I'm pleased to announce that bcTool is now publically available! You can now download it from this site, or use the 'Check for Updates' feature using an earlier beta release. Don't forget to join the Yahoo! group!

22/01/2008 - bcTool release date announced!

bcTool 'Release One' will be made publically available as of Friday, 25th January 2008. This release will be the culmination of 6 months of late nights, weekends and spare minutes and comes at the end of over 60 beta releases, countless bug reports and over 600 hours of development time. If you'd like to get started with bcTool straight away, you can head over to the Yahoo! Group and download your Beta copy!