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Scanner Setup
Besides searching within a selected frequency
range, you can also search your scanner’s service
banks.
Service banks
are preset groups of
frequencies categorized by type of service. For
example, many amateur radio frequencies are
located in the Ham service bank.
When you search and find a desired frequency,
you can store it into a programmable memory
location called a channel.
Channels
are grouped
into channel-storage banks. Your scanner has 20
channel-storage banks. Each bank contains 50-
channel sets. So the scanner has 1,000 channels.
You can
scan
the channel-storage banks to see if
there is activity on the frequencies stored there.
Note:
Search for frequencies to find
your local frequencies, after you have
programmed these frequencies into
channels, you can scan the channels.
Service Banks
The scanner is preprogrammed with all the
frequencies allocated to the Marine, CB band,
FRS/GMRS/MURS, Police (Fire/Emergency), Aircraft
and Ham band services. This helps you quickly find
active frequencies instead of doing a chain search.
Channel-Storage Banks
To make it easier to identify and select the
channels you want to listen to, all the channels are
divided into 20 banks of 50 channels. Use each
channel-storage bank to group frequencies.
For example, the police department might
use four frequencies in your town while the fire
department uses an additional four. You could
program the four police frequencies starting
with Channel 0 (the first channel in Bank 0), and
program the fire department frequencies starting
with Channel 50 (the first channel in Bank 1).