Owner`s manual
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ABOUT YOUR SCANNER
Once you understand a few simple terms used in this manual and familiarize
yourself with your scanner’s features, you can put the scanner to work for you.
You simply determine the type of communications you want to receive, then
set the scanner to scan them.
A frequency is the receiving signal location (expressed in kHz or MHz). To find
active frequencies, you can use the search or tune function.
You can also search the One-Touch Service Search Banks, which are preset
groups of frequencies categorized by type of service.
When you find a frequency, you can store it into a programmable memory
location called a channel, which is grouped with other channels in a channel-
storage bank. You can then scan the channel-storage banks to see if there is
activity on the frequencies stored there. Each time the scanner finds an active
frequency, it stays on that channel until the transmission ends.
UNDERSTANDING BANKS
Channel Storage Banks
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 (1 to 10) of 20 channels each, a
total of 200 channels. You can use each channel-storage bank to group fre-
quencies, such as those used by the police department, fire department, am-
bulance services, or aircraft.
For example, a police department might use four frequencies, one for each
side of town. You could program the police frequencies starting with Channel 1
(the first channel in bank 1) and program the fire department frequencies start-
ing with Channel 21 (the first channel in bank 2).
One-Touch Service Search
The scanner is preprogrammed with the frequencies allocated by marine, fire/
police, aircraft, ham radio, and weather services. This is handy for quickly find-
ing active frequencies instead of searching through an entire band (see “Search-
ing the One-Touch Service Search Banks” on Page 16).
Note: The frequencies in the scanner’s service banks are preset. You cannot
change them.