As an extension to the music/audio Bachelor pillar, Heir's looking at getting a radio scanner for the Swank Lounge household.  The site www.radioreference.com/‎ was very helpful in indicating which frequencies are used in Bachelor Borough, neighboring Blands Township and the rest of the surrounding counties.  However, the Heir needs to know whether most scanners allow you, for example, to scan through just one bank's worth of frequencies, because he wants to designate one bank per related set of frequencies.  Like he would have a Fire/EMS bank, a limited cop bank, a railroad bank and each major business he saw in the freqs list would have its own bank.  That is, to start.  Also, he's attracted to those scanners that use a designated top knob for maximum control of the unit, rather than just futz with buttons all the time.  He wants to make it as akin to the tuning elegance of classic radio as possible.  Though it may be pushing it, he would like very much  to get an adequate scanner for $50, and no more than $80.  If he has to spend around $100, he'll do it, though he will absolutely not spend $400-$500.  All the time he's telling me the Mentor about prices, he's going "boing-oing-oing-oing!!"  (Audible sticker shock).  I remind him that the upper end scanners are likely those that try to beat trunking encryption of the cop freqs, though in the long run that will be a fool's errand.  Heir saw a YouTube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdvCUfLtjuo of a guy being able to get decent railroad transmissions on a Radio Shack he got used for $30-$50, a real bargain for him, Radio Shack as a scanner brand often sneered at on the Radio Reference forums as below quality.  So there's probably room for savings for the Heir.  He had one or two other features he had in mind on his wish list, but he forgot what those were offhand.  He will want a 1/8" audio jack so he can plug it into the Swank Lounge's FM transmitter, so he can hear the transmissions on our audio sets.  He'll be doing stuff and having an audio set sitting on a shelf giving him transmissions of a train operator making sure his train is literally on the right track.