Sometimes

I'd hate to tell you how many 2m and 70cm rigs I have (Last I counted, it was close to 20), and almost all of them are Commercial Business/Public Safety radios, purchased used. I spent the money on the gear to be able to program them, and they are wonderful radios (a LOT less intermod tham most ham rigs, but you give up frequency flexibility). Some of the radios I've bought have been under $20. Heck, some of the radios that were $400 a year ago are down around $100 now

One REALLY nice radio out there - the M7100 series by MA-com (or whatever they call themselves this week). What I really like is it did away with "splits" and does 136-174Mhz on ONE radio, plus it's type approved for both Ham (well, you don't NEED type aproval there), as well as Marine and GMRS if programmed correctly. I also have all the National Westher Service Frequencies programmed in as receive only frequencies.

Quite nice. I have one bank that has my favorite 2m repeates, and has the Marine distress and calling frequencies in it. That is my "scanner" bank. If I'm just listening, I'll turn that on to scan the bank