I thought I would post this for those who are considering the Pro-106. I jumped on this model because of the price. I had a bct-397t but had a house fire a few months ago that burned up ALL of my radio equipment. Anyway, after ordering I read a few posts here about how hard the pr0-106 was to manually program. i have to say I didn't find it hard at all and had no problems. If you have have manually programmed any other trunking scanner you shouldn't have any problems. I had mine scanning in about 15 minutes. Just READ the manual while programming it. So don't worry about running out and buying a programming cable thinking it will be too hard to set it up manually. Hope this helps.