In the interests of getting you started, this article from the wiki has links (always blue) for just about everything you need to get started. Note that the 1065 is really a PSR-600 in another box...
I'm in Houston County Georgia. I manually programmed the freq's in the scanner, I can see it's receiving signals but there no audio coming out. I've tried adjusting the squelch but still nothing. I can hear the weather channels. I'm interested in police and fire.