Btw, I just bought a Radio Shack DSP noise reduction system at an estate sale, to use with SSB shortwave reception. Not meant to compete with the high-end dedicated HAM DSPs, but seems to work pretty well and I am happy with it.
I just started using my old Pro-34 again after a long respite. Although they have gone to trunking here, there really isn't much traffic and I don't seem to miss much just scanning those frequencies.
Trunking isn't what is was all cracked up to be. NYC learned a hard lesson on that on 9/11. I read up on their communications issues just out of curiosity. They scrapped trunking all together after 9/11.
Each precinct now has assigned channels with a basic repeater system the same with fire and paramedics from what I read on it. They gave Mass Transit all the 800 trunking headaches.
I live in rural East Tennessee so there's plenty to hear on non trunked systems. I use the system I was talking about to reach up into Ohio in the 150 MHZ range.
Like somebody else posted though I wish they would go back and serve radio hobby interest more. They are down to I think 2 scanners now maybe three. OH BTW Police Call Book is no more. Gene Hughes the editor retired :>{