The home patrol comes with everything you need to scan. I bought digital scanners from radio shack and I had to purchase separately: ac adapter, batteries, software, pc cable plus a $30 subscription to radio reference to program it. All in all- I had to pay an additional $115 on top of the $500 scanner. The home patrol is a keeper!
@DAN4279 It holds the entire database from Radio Reference. You can change the zip code, and also the range on how many miles out from the zip code you want to listen.
jan 2013 i heard that Narc cd software i saw online at amazon has the ability to break encrypted signals so i heard from someone in ct it's possible dose anyone have this software to confirm with me regaurds to breaking encrypted signals..Anyone that has this home patrol and software please write back questioning if i should buy this unit..