User's Manual

20-315 Owner’s Manual
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WirEd
Appears when you set the scanner to its wired programming mode to program
frequencies into it.
UNDERSTANDING BANKS
Channel Storage Banks
A bank is a storage area for a group of channels. Channels are storage areas for
freequencies. 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 frequencies, such as those used by the
police department, fire department, ambulance services, or aircraft (see “Guide to the
Action Bands” on Page 30).
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 starting with Channel 21 (the first channel
in bank 2).
One Touch Banks
The scanner is preprogrammed with the frequencies allocated by marine, fire/police,
aircraft, ham radio, and weather services. This is handy for quickly finding active
frequencies instead of searching through an entire band (see “Searching the One Touch
Banks” on Page 18).
Note: The frequencies in the scanner’s service banks are preset. You cannot change them.
Fire/Police
Group Frequency Range (MHz) Step
(kHz)
1 33.420–33.980 20
37.020–37.420 20
39.020–39.980 20
42.020–42.940 20
44.620–45.860 40