Uniden BEARCAT 980 40- Channel SSB CB Radio with Sideband NOAA WeatherBand,7- Color Digital Display PA/CB Switch and Noise Cancelling Mic, Wireless Mic Compatible
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- STAY CONNECTED: The BEARCAT 980 SSB CB Radio allows you to stay connected while out on the road and is great for people with a long drive ahead of them
- LARGE EASY-TO-READ DISPLAY & CHANNEL: Illuminated control panel with 7 color personalized display options for easy use in all lighting conditions. Also features easy-to-read laser etched keys
- 40 CHANNEL: Full spectrum CB operation & instantly switches to emergency channel 9. Features NOAA weather channels with the push of a button
- NEW NOISE CANCELLING MICROPHONE: Noise Canceling Mic reduces background noise for crystal clear communication
- WIRELESS MICROPHONE COMPATABILE: The integrated SWR gives perfect antenna matching. Working with the Uniden BC906W CB Wireless Microphone the Bearcat 980 has become more adaptable
Description
The BEARCAT 980 SSB CB Radio allows you to stay connected while out on the road and is great for people with a long drive ahead of them. The orange display allows for easy reading.
Brand: Uniden
Color: BEARCAT980SSB
Number of Channels: 40
Special Feature: Noise Reduction
Frequency Range: 26.965 MHz - 27.405 MHz
Talking Range Maximum: 10 miles
Voltage: 12 volts
Water Resistance Level: Not Water Resistant
Product Dimensions: 4"D x 15.1"W x 8.6"H
Number of Batteries: 1 Product Specific batteries required.
Number of Channels: 40
Additional Features: Noise Reduction
Frequency Range: 26.965 MHz - 27.405 MHz
Talking Range Maximum: 10 miles
Voltage: 12 volts
Water Resistance Level: Not Water Resistant
Number of Batteries: 1 Product Specific batteries required.
Audible Noise: 30 db
Compatible Devices: Other Uniden CB radios, compatible accessories, Uniden BC906W CB Wireless Microphone
Battery Average Life: 0.01 seconds
Connectivity Protocol: SSB
Tuner Type: CB Radio
Item Dimensions D x W x H: 4"D x 15.1"W x 8.6"H
Item Weight: 4 pounds
Color: BEARCAT980SSB
Brand: Uniden
Model Number: BEARCAT 980
Built-In Media: CB Radio
Global Trade Identification Number: 19
Unit Count: 1 Count
Manufacturer: Uniden
UPC: 050633550519
Item Type Name: BEARCAT 980
Mfr Part Number: BEARCAT980
Warranty Description: 1 Year
Waterproof Rating: IP67
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Everyone has a little bit different setup for their CB’s. I decided that I wanted to put money into a great radio with a lot of features. This one fit the bill, and of all the CB’s I’ve run (President McKinley, Cobra 29LX Max, Retivis AM/FM CB) it’s the nicest. The contrast is not as aggressive as some displays, with Daytime mode being just bright enough to hack it. The colors were all vibrant, but it was missing a true amber color. No big deal. I paired this radio with a 3’ Firestik antenna and a 5” Pyle PA speaker. I wanted to test the full gamut of features. Overall, the radio functions extremely well. First off, setting the SWR in radio is both easy and effective. The accuracy seems to be pretty good. After hooking up the antenna, I tested out some of the features. SSB works great on both upper and lower, and you can easily dial out the chipmunk voice. The audio quality is the best on any radio I’ve used, on SSB or AM. The PA feature is basic, but functional. I really have no need for a PA, other than to say “Re-elect Mayor Goldie Wilson”. It works, much to the consternation of my neighbors. This radio, with the aforementioned antenna, has excellent TX and RX. SSB’s extra wattage helps with that. In the end, there were a few features that I would have preferred to see: CTCSS, Roger beep, anbd amber lighting. But, none of them were dealbreakers and the radio otherwise performs perfectly.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2025 by Kalaab M. Pickering
I absolutely love this radio. All the features and accessibility make this the best I've owned so far. I was skeptical at first due to some of the negative reviews on Amazon, but after playing with it all day today, I'm glad I bought it. It can be peaked and tuned though it's set perfect out of the box. Doesn't drift at all and the internal diagnostics is a plus though I'm not sure how accurate it is. I purchased this as a replacement from a burned up unit, so I thought. Old one wouldn't transmit and it was very old. Plugged in my new, cheaper antenna to this one and the diagnostic test failed the antenna. Actually metered it finally and sure enough my antenna is bad. So I threw away my old unit for nothing I'm sure. Albeit aside, I'm more than happy with the clarity out of this one and is a huge upgrade from what I had. Weather bands sound great. Memory scan and full channel scan as well as side band are great features. Can fine tune everything quite easily. I watched a single YouTube video about this radio and that's all I needed. No need to break out the manual for this unit. Once you get the idea, it's very simple to navigate through all the features. I put this one in my 2014 Silverado z71 right in the center console. Easy power access and ability to hide all the wires. Looks like it belongs. Highly recommend this unit for new or seasoned operators. Just make sure you don't skimp on the antenna. I'll be buying another Firestick and mounting opposite my radio antenna on the hood. I would also recommend not getting a roof mount antenna for this unit. From other reviews, the cb will fail the diagnostics test. Get a good center load and ground it properly and make sure it's tuned right. Order a Firestix antenna as well Walcott radio has the best prices.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2015 by Gotcha4More
Just getting back into the CB/11 meter world, I wanted a compact unit with legal power and SSB I could set up as a base. So far this little radio has worked phenomenally for my purposes. Paired with a Vertex power supply, this little radio has been quite the legal powerhouse. The built-in SWR meter seems to work well, sound is decent although I use an external speaker and the features are great. Of course, you must have a good coax and antenna. Presently, while I await my base antenna to arrive, I'm using a home-built field antenna on a tripod with a 102" whip, 4 10' radials and 50' of quality RG-8 coax. All in all the tip of the antenna is about 14' or so. Swr is registering 1.2-1.4 and this Bearcat eats it up. I've been told my radio transmission sound like a cellphone and even with a ground oriented home built antenna, it talks and hears exceptionally well. I've hit 14 miles verified from my front porch and the receiver was surprised I was running barefoot since it was such a strong signal. At first was it was reported back that the mic was soft-sounding. Since I was going to buy a new one anyway, I modded the factory mic and now there is no need for a replacement. If you open up the mic, you will see there is a piece of soft felt over the mic hole. Once you remove this, the rubber covering has a tiny hole for speaking. Using a pocket knife, I increased the size of this hole to about 1" and it seemed to work wonders. I still have the mic gain on 4 for it really gets out there now.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2016 by Barry Robinson
The price and features combination make this a great buy. I have bought 3 of them in fact. I know the radio's strengths and weaknesses. Why does anyone need 3 radios? I have 2 cars and a base station. These make great base stations if you know how to invert the power and use a battery in your home. Many radio buffs do this. Base stations cost so much more money but don't really perform much better. I have other radios too, including HAM radios. This radio has a few things to be aware of. The beeps are great for driving since you can change or adjust the stations without looking at it. (The beeps can be turned off) On SSB (Single Side Band) the clarifier has 2 knobs on top of each other. One is a broad tuner and the other is the fine tuner. No more chipmunks talking in the distance! (The way people sound when they are no clarified properly) The broad tune clarifier has a "center" notch stop you can feel without looking. Brilliant in the car! The LED screen is just not very bright and for a mobile device this is a real problem. It can be made brighter using the adjustment buttons/knobs but even in daylight mode at the brightest setting it is hard to see. Still, this is not important when you are driving, you just need to know the channel and nothing else. It has a digital meter on it as well and built in SWR but I only use these when I am stopped and not driving. I tested the accuracy of the built in SWR as well by hooking up a SWR meter. It is VERY close to the actual SWR meter. I feel very safe after testing this over and over that the built in SWR is giving me good readings. Warnings: Do NOT use a power mic on this (With a caveat, read on), it has a built in power mic (Gain control) for any mic hooked up to it. It comes with a microphone adapter too so that other mics can be used. DO NOT run this with a Noise Cancelling Mic and run this on volume setting 4. It will over modulate and possibly damage the radio. I know this first hand. I blew the radio up literally with a Noise Cancelling microphone. Smoke out of the radio. I should say I bought 4 of these because that is the real truth, I learned a hard lesson.I found I could run a Noise cancelling mic if I kept the volume at 2 and never above 3 on the volume (gain) control. There are 4 volumes levels on this control. I would have liked to have seen a more finer adjustment for this (10 volume levels instead of 4), but this works. Getting the SWR is critical for AM broadcasting. If you get the SWR right your signal is cleaner and matches up better with the carrier wave you are sending out. You talk further and better with a nice SWR (1.0 is perfect, but anything below 1.5 is acceptable, most people who understand SWR can get their antenna tuned to 1.1 or 1.2), and this radio has that all covered nicely. In short, this is a great radio, and as a radio operator for over 40 years, I really like this radio.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2018 by Roger in AZ
EXCELLENT receive audio. I have mine plugged into a hifi speaker that came off the side of a plasma TV, sounds great. I've gotten great audio reports on the TX quality. I'm even pretty happy with the stock mic. The display looks great. The changeable display colors are a lot of fun! Will be great when the radio eventually goes in the truck. You can match the color to the rest of your instruments, or go nuts with some of the wilder colors. ;) The brightness and contrast controls are really slick for setting it up so as not to cause fatigue or distraction. Now, here's a few concerns and criticisms, but for me, it does not sour me on this radio in the least: Mine out of the box does 3W dk. Have not gone inside and turned it up yet, though I plan to. We're allowed 4 Watts, so that’s what I want! All that I've read indicates the adjustment will work out fine. I did, however, do the "beep mod," in which you unsolder one SMD resistor to get rid of the ABSOLUTELY USELESS, ANNOYING, and LOUD BEEP every time you twist a knob or push a button. This radio is annoying as heck, esp. with an external speaker, until this is done. Google for it, the instructions are out there, youtube. This radio does indeed have the Mitsubishi RD16HHF1 Mosfet final, I've confirmed it in mine. I had some concern in reading in forums that these radios blow finals, but once I learned what the part was, I was ok with it as I already have a couple of these parts in my bin. Replacements are a whole $4.75 from RF parts, or 2 for 10 from this guy, without RFparts' minimum order: www.kitsandparts.com/transistors.php I have some ideas in my mind of adding an external heat sink to the back of the radio, I'm not really convinced the final has adequate heat-sinking, just the thin piece of aluminium that makes up the rear panel of the radio. This is a great radio for the tinkering hobbyist, and its the most inexpensive new SSB CB out there.
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Uniden's mid-size Bearcat 980 SSB sets a gold standard for modern consumer-grade CB radios. The array of features, such as scan functionality, CB/PA/NOAA Wx, customizable screen colors, on-board diagnostics and single-sideband, are -- in my area, at least -- usually found in much more expensive radios. The 980's most direct consumer-grade competitor might be Cobra's 29. The Cobra has many of these features for a similar price, but lacks the sideband that affords the 980 effectively 80 additional 'channels.' Signals, even at the edge of reception, are incredibly crisp and clear. The sound quality is impressive, if slightly soft in my soft-top Jeep. In my first attempt at raising someone on the radio, I made a contact from my driveway that measured less than a tenth of a mile shy of five miles. The other party reported my signal was strong, loud and clear. (That’s a barefoot radio and the stock mic, pushing out on a four-foot Wilson Silver Load fiberglass antenna.) It's not the fault of the radio per se, but I do have to keep the squelch up a little higher than I’d like to drown out RF interference picked up via the antenna while I'm in town. I'd prefer to keep the squelch almost all the way down and use the RF gain control to dial in signal reception. But, since the 980's RF gain consists of five steps (push-button) rather than a dial, it's a bit more difficult. As a result, the squelch stays up higher, and the RF gain a bit lower (setting 3 out of 5) than I'd like. Out of the box, before any adjustment, my SWRs ranged from 1.0 (Channel 1) to 1.5:1 (Channel 40). I've only two complaints with the 980: First, switching from night to day mode is slightly cumbersome. The CB-only Bearcat 880 employs a simple button to toggle back and forth. With the 980's single-sideband functionality, this is moved into the menu to make room for a clarifier knob. It’s not complicated, but it’s more than I’d like to do when the vehicle is potentially in motion. Second, the plastic used for the volume and fine clarifier knob feel of lesser quality than I'd expect in a radio of this size or price range. They're holding up just fine, but it's a shame that at least one of the controls you're most likely to use should feel inferior. Overall, this radio is a bargain!
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Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2018 by Cary V.
Could have been a great line of radios but the LED displays fail. I was forewarned, it's six months old. The lower right corner of the screen doesn't light. The radio still works and I love it. But disappointed and wondering if warranty service is worth it. Learn as you go. I've read it starts like this and eventually enough will go out making it unusuable. Mine has been indoors and warm. I can't imagine what bouncing around in a truck, being subject to heat, cold and humidity might have done to it. I bought this because it was kinda cool. There were just 23 channels on my old one. It's fifty years old and not so fancy. I monitor with this radio and will update this post as necessary. Right now I'd say that there are probably better choices. I really want to like it but...
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