Either a portable or base unit would be fine--with a slight preference
toward base because of larger, easier to use buttons/knobs.

Very expensive (to me) is $800, with optimum price for good quality unit not
to exceed $500 or so.

Samantha


"Evan Platt" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:56:35 -0400, "ScannerNewbie"
wrote:

I'm interested in purchasing a scanner with the greatest frequency
coverage
range possible and offering the widest selection of reception modes.

So you want a digital scanner. Handheld or base?

I would like to be able to monitor police, fire, air traffic, government
and
other services. There are so many different makes and models it's hard to
know which are the best choices.

Price is not really an issue (although *very* expensive models are outside
my budget).

What is 'very expensive'?

Your main choices for 'widest selection of reception modes' are, IMHO
for the best scanner, the Uniden BCD396T for handheld 996 for mobile.
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