I get questions all the time about the 125AT and will it work for police, etc. The people asking just are wishing and hoping I say yes, but it's almost always, "Only things you're going to be able to listen to are Marine, Railroads, air, and WX. When I send or tell them what they really need, I almost never hear from them again, even though a used older digital scanner would get them a lot of traffic, maybe at not the best quality for sure, but... I think maybe one person that wasn't already in the hobby already went the SDR route and is pretty happy with the results. I scored a friend's SDS200 with DMR for about half price, as he really really hated it.