The only non-commercial scanner that I have had much luck with are the Bearcats. I use high price commercial universal trunked scanners in my work, but they are 10 to 20k and not available to the general public because of the restricted frequencies they can tune.
The biggest problem with scanners is antennas. Using a broadband antenna that is recommended means that the antenna is tuned to a freguency in the middle of all the bands the scanner covers. That makes for really bad reception. You need to have the antenna tuned to the frequency you are listening to. There are tunable antennas, but again very high priced.
I would recommend for general use a Bearcat or Cobra handheld scanner with trunking if you can find one.
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