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USING BAND SEARCH
Follow these steps to search for trans-
missions within any of the scanner’s
11 search bands.
1. Be sure
MEMOLOCK OFF/ON
is
set to
OFF
(see “Using Memolock”
on Page 23).
2. Press
SEARCH
.
3. Repeatedly press
BAND
until you
see the search band you want to
search.
SRCH
and the range for each
search band appears. Then, after
about 3 seconds,
SRCH
s or
SRCH
t appears, and the scanner
starts to automatically search the
frequencies in the band. When the
scanner finds a transmission, it
stops on that frequency and the
frequency’s number appears until
the transmission stops, then the
scanner starts searching again.
You can change the direction of either
an automatic or manual search by
pressing the opposite arrow key (s or
t) once.
To manually search the search band,
press
HOLD
after the scanner starts
automatically searching the frequen-
cies.
HOLD
,
SRCH
s or
SRCH
t, and a
frequency within the band you select-
ed appear.
Repeatedly press s to search from the
lower to the upper range, or t to
search from the upper to the lower
range. Hold down s or t to quickly step
through the frequencies. Press
SEARCH
to return to automatic search.
MONITORING A
FREQUENCY
When the scanner displays a specific
frequency while scanning the banks or
searching the search bands, you can
continuously monitor that frequency.
This is useful if you hear an emergen-
cy broadcast on a frequency and do
not want to miss any details (even
though there might be periods of si-
lence).
To monitor a frequency while it ap-
pears during scanning or searching,
press
HOLD
until
HOLD
appears. The
scanner stays on the frequency.
To continue scanning a bank, press
a service search bank button,
WX,
or
PRIVATE
. To continue automatically
searching a search band, press
SEARCH
. To continue manually
searching a search band, press s or t.
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