Robert, If Radio Shack, etc. don't have what you're looking for, you might try an Amateur Radio outlet. They won't sell you a transmitter without a Ham license, but they also sell scanners. Couple in our region: Burghardts and Radio City. Have purchased stuff from Burghardts-good folks, haven't dealt with Radio City. One caveat, if fire/law/medical services use analog a scanner will receive them, if they digitally encode their transmissions you won't. Some do, some don't, depends on age of their equipment. http://www.radioinc.com/ http://www.burghardt-amateur.com/ HTH Bob Robert Sinland wrote: > > I have been looking for a scanning hand-held radio that would > pick up police and fire bands. Seems like Uniden has a corner > on the market there. Was just wondering if anyone could throw > a few recomendations at me. For the record I live in a very