Without going OFFBEAT here, cell phones took off in the past 3 or more years with all the goodies. See your home from work, Facebook, online scanning,,,list goes on for what this sandwich size peice of high tech can do.. The pro 197 is roughly 7 times the size of any cell phone... Point is, if the phones can do what they do at that size, the 197 has room for SOMETHING,,, Phase II, Trbo, Nexden, even HF. ( may require elarging for HF). Now adays, the police portables are smaller than the 106.. I just don't wanna buy a laptop to run DSP, then to buy Trbo or Nexden equipment / and programming software to program an entity for scanning. That's roughly $1,500.00 to get started, a scanner that does that is worth the $399.00, not before.. Come on tech's, give us what we want...