I'm completely new to scanners, want to scan emergency traffic
(police, firefighter etc). As far as I understand this scanner can
scan
all those frequencies--as a matter of fact all the sub-shortwave freqs
besides the cellphone. Am I correct? I'm in a very large metropolitan
area(NYC) and wondering if I'm ok in a setting like this. Also heard
that
some police departments use some kind of scrambling or some such
thing. Can I still listen in to the good stuff with this device.

Here is a link at amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/UNIDEN-BC-246T...1271202&sr=1-1

Also, several years back I've bought my first shortwave from some
place on the internet (NOT universal-radio)
and they were really nice to me and so I would like to give them my
business again but for the life of me can't
remember who they were other than they were one of the major
resellers. Website had alot of red colors
and there weren't any pictures just links to the product descriptions.
Any ideas who that was.

thanks a bunch for all the help.