User's Manual

20-424 Owner’s Manual
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second and to scan at up to 25 channel per second, to help quickly find interesting transmissions.
Duplicate Frequency Check – automatically notifies you if you are about to store a frequency
you have already stored, to help avoid wasting storage space.
Tune – lets you search for new and unlisted frequencies starting from a specified frequency.
Priority Channel – lets you program a frequency in the priority channel to be scanned every 2
seconds so you do not miss important calls.
Weather Alert – automatically sounds the alarm tone to advise of hazardous weather conditions
when the scanner detects an alert signal on the local NOAA weather channel.
Lock-Out Function – lets you set your scanner to skip over specified channels or frequencies
when scanning or searching.
Liquid Crystal Display – makes it easy to view and change programming information at any
time.
Display Backlight – makes the scanner easy to read in low light situations.
Supplied Telescoping Antenna – lets the scanner receive strong local signals.
External Antenna Terminal – lets you connect an external antenna (not supplied) to the scanner.
Your scanner can receive these bands:
Frequency Range (MHz) Type of Transmissions
29-54 10-Meter Ham Band, VHF Lo, 6-Meter Ham Band
108-136.9875 Aircraft
137-174 Military Land Mobile, 2-Meter Ham Band, VHF Hi
380-512 MHz UHF Aircraft, FGovernment, 70-cm Ham Band,
UHF Standard Band, UHF “T” Band
SCANNING LEGALLY
Scanning is a fun and interesting hobby. You can hear police and fire departments, ambulance
services, government agencies, private companies, amateur radio services, aircraft, and military
operations. It is legal to listen to almost every transmission your scanner can receive. However,
there are some electronic and wire communications that are illegal to intentionally intercept.
These include:
• telephone conversations (cellular, cordless, or other private means of telephone signal
transmission)
• pager transmissions
• any scrambled or encrypted transmissions
According to the Federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), and amended, you could