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YOUR SCANNER
Once you understand a few simple terms we use in this
manual and familiarize yourself with your scanner’s fea-
tures, you can put the scanner to work for you. You simply
determine the communications you want to receive, then
set the scanner to scan those frequencies.
A frequency is the tuning location of a station (expressed
in kHz or MHz). To find active frequencies, you can use
the search function to search bands, which are preset
ranges of frequencies.
When you find a frequency, you can store it into a perma-
nent memory location called a channel. You can then
scan the channels to see if there is activity on the frequen-
cies stored there. Each time the scanner finds an active
frequency, it stays on that channel until the transmission
ends.
Another option is to store the frequency into a temporary
memory location called a monitor memory until you de-
cide to move it to a channel.
Just keep in mind — you
search frequencies and scan
channels.
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