Yes you can manually input it on the radio but I found out that is cumbersome and not very intuitive to do. Anyway with the easy input you can EVER SO EASILY type in a radio station, the NOAA weather channel, analog police, whatever. It sadly does not do AM radio as I believe the frequency range starts around 25 MHz for the SDS100. Punch in 89.3 (or whatever your local FM station is) and BOOM, you got a $700 FM radio. It has a magnificent frequency range however there are some gaps, most notably around the US cellular frequencies. Not many folks know this but the SDS100 is basically a Software Defined Radio (SDR). It has the ability to input frequency easily. Look at the upper right hand corner of the pic above. Hell, that alone is worth the price of admission, especially when you are 55 years old and need cheater glasses to see your cheater glasses. The first thing you notice after connecting your software and launching Proscan is that it gives you an awesome virtual interface. After playing with it for like an hour I knew it was worth the cost so I bought it. Where does the cost with this scanner end? Well, like most programs Proscan has a 30 day trial version so I gave it a shot. However I stumbled across this hunk of software called Proscan which looked interesting but it also costs $50. Sentinel is adequate for managing favorites and reading and writing to the scanner and it is all you NEED. It comes with free control software called Sentinel (yeah the download is hard to find on that page). It is not a toy by any stretch of the imagination. But it cost $700, and then I added DMR decoding for $60, and NXDN decoding for $50. So I bought the Uniden SDS100 hardware scanner, and I love it.
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