[butter pecan fan]

Anyone thinking of buying a scanner.... Check your local PD to find out what kind of radio system they have (local Radio Shack can give you the story). If they are on a 'trunk' system you want something other than a plain ole scanner. And 200 channels is barely enough.

Important point.

[lelio]

Anyone thinking of buying a scanner....
Oh and in addition: check your market. The cops / fire / etc might be on digital scanners. If so then you're out of luck, you can't easily listen to them unless you have their same gear.