User's Manual

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able to turn SQUELCH clockwise to cut out the birdie.
This scanner’s birdie frequencies (in MHz) are:
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To find the birdies in your scanner, begin by disconnecting the antenna and moving it away from the
scanner. Make sure that no other nearby radio or TV sets are turned on near the scanner. Use the search
function and scan every frequency range from its lowest frequency to the highest. Occasionally, the
searching will stop as if it had found a signal, often without any sound. This is a birdie. Make a list of all the
birdies in your scanner for future reference.
GUIDE TO THE ACTION BANDS
Typical Band Usage
HF Band
HF Range 25.000-26.960 MHz
Citizen’s Band 26.965-27.405 MHz
10-Meter Amateur 28.000-29.700 MHz
VHF Band
Low Range 29.700-50.000 MHz
6-Meter Amateur 50.000-54.000 MHz
U.S. Government 137.000-144.000 MHz
2-Meter Amateur 144.000-148.000 MHz
High Range 148.000-174.000 MHz
New Mobile Narrow Band 220.000-222.000 MHz
1 1/4-Meter Amateur 222.000-225.000 MHz
UHF Band
U.S. Government 406.000-420.000 MHz
70-cm Amateur 420.000-450.000 MHz
Low Range 450.000-470.000 MHz
FM-TV Audio Broadcast, Wide Band 470.000-512.000 MHz
800 band Law Enforcement 806.000-824.000 MHz
Conventional Systems 851.000-856.000 MHz
Conventional/Trunked Systems 856.000-861.000 MHz
Public Safety 866.000-869.000 MHz
Trunked Private/General 894.000-960.000 MHz
25-cm Amateur 1240.000-1300.000 MHz