I set out to buy an emergency weather radio and ended up with this scanner. Not exactly an impulse buy, though. I spent quite a bit of time going over reviews of several units.

Yesterday I wrote a very favorable report about this scanner and I stick to that report. However with that in mind I would not recommend this scanner to a beginner or as a 1st scanner as I could see that it would be overwhelming to program with all of...

Great scanner, was a little hard to program. You need to get the cabel and program software for best use.

This is a smart, sophisticated piece of equipment. I read the reviews and was a little concerned about the difficulties with programing the scanner. I am happy to say that after a couple of hours I started to get the hang of it. After a couple days it...

This is a very good scanner! I was a little hesitant about buying it at first because of the negative reviews,but I took my chance and I am glad I did. This scanner is very much different than any other previous RS models in the way it is programed....

Excellent scanner - DO GET the Radio Shack Programming Cable part number20-546 (make sure the cable specifies for the PRO106 as the RS salesman tried to sell me a different one saying it would work, it won't). Then download (from the Radio Shack...

At first, Looking at manual and trying to figure out things were hard. Taking your time, Reading and watching utube helped. I have over 500 frequencies stored and listening to all at lighting speed. I programed all frequencies with different lights so...

this item was purchased for supplementing resources of our ema. with everyone going to digital and our department lacking the funds to do so we bought this to listen in on other departments. i t is complex, NO ONE will touch it to program it.(ie...

It is a breeze to program with the computer software and the programming cable.

I purchased this scanner on May 14,2009. I had a friend program it with digital and analog railroad channels. [...] Now this so called wonderful scanner is not picking up all the digital channels and just dropping some totally from my list. As for the...