I hear the Fulton County activity on my Home Patrol on the Northwest Ohio Regional Public Safety System. I am using the zip code location and most other default options. It is one of the systems that it scans through from my location. I usually wait to the scanner gets to that system and then hold on that system to monitor all of the activity as that is generally what I want to hear. And then you can hold departments and channels and resume from there. The radio has all of the info it needs by default, you just need to tell it its location. There are a bunch of other systems it scans, I have not worked on filtering that out all that much, but you can skip and filter things you do not want to hear. You can and should also hook up to the computer and install the software and download updates and such. So far starters put in your location and see if you can see it scanning through the systems including the Northwest Ohio system on the top line. When it gets to that system, tap the system so the radio will hold on it, and see what activity pops up. Also look at the activity indicator to see how well you are receiving the activity. I need to move my radio around a bit at times to get better reception. Hope this helps.