On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:20:16 -0700, clu said in
rec.radio.scanner:

I'm new to this, but am interested. I was looking online at some
portable scanners and found this one. AR8200 MK3

Is it any good? It seems to have a large frequency range (500kHz to
3GHz). I am not sure if the frequency range is what I should be looking
at to determine whether it's a good scanner or not.

It's a receiver, not a scanner.