I have the Radio Shack versions of the GRE-500 and GRE-600 digital scanners. With being able to download all the local frequencies from files on radioreference.com (check the forum for a Win500 file for your area), it was pretty easy to get up and running, and the quality of those scanners is excellent. I picked up a hard leather case for the handheld scanner (I think it was from scannermaster.com), and it was also excellent. I read somewhere that the GRECOM 500 or 600 scanners may even have dropped in price $50 or so lately.