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A: You dont need to buy any books, see the link below and pick your state and county, this is what the books have and then some See the second link below for the FCC database search, put in your latitude and longitude, do a "point radius" search to start, try only a few miles, 25 or so if you are in a populated area it will return huge amounts of data, of course you can see you can search by other criteria too, This search will return anything that's licenced and much more than what's listed in the best scanner books Then there is also your "fcc part 15" no licence devices, like baby monitors (these usually turn up the gain when sound is low and are quite sensitive to all sounds in a house if say,,, you want to monitor a room in your own house on your scanner) , walkie talkies, frs, gmrs and so on so you can keep an watchful eye or ear on your kids, you can find these by googling You can even listen to the fast food joints with the headsets and some drive thrus are via radio you can listen too, Now if you don't know how to program it by chance, check the makers website, google the " model# + manual" , if you cant turn up anything, post a new question so it's fresh and right on top of the pile, include the make and model # Good Luck !