Thanks for the replies. My range is set for 10 miles, I can extend that or decrease it. I'm on the armer system. The radio indicates that I'm monitoring a APCO P25 standard radio system. White Bear Lake Fire Main 1 12108 for the channel. Ramsey County-Cities is what is listed as the Department, the department has 2 channels. It seems that I'm on the digital system, its 6:00 Tues. evening as I type this out and haven't heard anything from fire or police. I hear more from St.Paul and Dakota police and Fire then WBL. Hopefully you can help me straightened this out. Like I said I'm new to scanning with a new radio, not really sure what I'm doing. Thanks