User's Manual

20-527 Owner’s Manual Draft
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A bank is a storage area for a group of channels. Channels are storage areas for frequencies. Whereas a
channel can only contain one frequency, a bank can hold numerous channels.
To make it easier to identify and select the channels you want to listen to, your scanner divides the
channels into 10 banks (0 to 9) of 100 (00 to 99) channels each, a total of 1,000 channels. You can use
each channel-storage bank to group frequencies, such as those used by Motorola trunking, EDACS
trunking, LTR trunking, Marine, CB, Police, Fire, Aircraft and Ham (see “Typical Band Usage (in MHz)” on
Page XX).
For example, a police department might use four frequencies, one for each side of town. You could
program the police frequencies starting with 000 (the first channel in bank 0) and program the fire
department frequencies starting with 100 (the first channel in bank 1). The first digit identifies the bank (0
to 9). The second and third digits identify the channel within the bank (00 to 99).
Search Banks
Your scanner has five preprogrammed search banks and one limit search bank. You can set the lower
and higher frequency limit in the limit search bank.
Note: For example, if you wanted to find active frequencies between a range of 150.1000 and 150.5000,
you would put both of those frequencies in the limit search bank.
For the default setting, see “Searching a Preprogrammed Frequency Range” on Page XX.
UNDERSTANDING YOUR SCANNER’S MODES
You can program each channel with any of seven receive modes (AM, FM, CT, DC, MO, ED, and LT).
Each receive mode affects how your scanner operates when scanning and receiving transmissions.
Notes:
. Trunked modes (MO, ED and LT) can only be selected for frequencies above 137 MHz.
. Your scanner’s closed mode lets you hear only those trunking talkgroups you specify. For more
information, see “Open and Closed Modes” on Page XX.
AM Mode
The AM mode sets the scanner to receive transmissions using amplitude modulation (AM), primarily used
for aircraft, military, some amateur radio, and some government transmissions. (Refer to “Specifications”
on Page XX for a list of the frequencies covered.) When the scanner receives a transmission on a channel
set to the AM mode, it always stops on the transmission.