Based on your experiences, would the BCT15X be a decent unit? It seems to be a reasonable price
If you have the $ it is best to go for a digital scanner. They arent all that much more expensive and it opens up doors in that it allows you to monitor everything today that is monitorable.
Do your homework, ask people in the GRE, Radio Shack and Uniden forums which one they like best. There are people in this forum that tcan get you scanners for very reasonable prices also.
I currently have a Home Patrol 1. It is a dynamite scanner. I love it! It allows me to monitor pretty much everything I want and it does other things I like. The audio is pretty good, even while monitoring a system like fleetnet where the analogue and digital comms were too low and too loud respectively on my older scanners.
If I had extra $ I would buy a PSR800 or a 396XT Portable or 996XT Base. The 396XT is tiny and is a workhorse.
So, anyways, do your homework and dont be afraid to ask questions.
Eric