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About Your Scanner
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About Your Scanner
Once you understand a few simple terms used in this
manual and familiarize yourself with your scanner's fea-
tures, you can put the scanner to work for you. You sim-
ply determine the type of communications you want to
receive, then set the scanner to scan them.
A frequency is the receiving signal location (expressed in
kHz or MHz). To find active frequencies, you can use the
search function.
You can also search the SEARCH banks, which are pre-
programmed frequencies in the scanner's memory (see
“Searching a Preprogrammed Frequency Range” on
Page 30 for the frequency list). You can even change
the frequency range on one of the SEARCH banks
(SR5) to limit the search.
When you find a frequency, you can store it into a pro-
grammable memory location called a channel, which is
grouped with other channels in a channel-storage bank.
You can then scan the channel-storage banks to see if
there is activity on the frequencies stored there. Each
time the scanner finds an active frequency, it stays on
that channel until the transmission ends.
A LOOK AT THE KEYPAD
Here is a brief overview of your scanner's keys and their
functions.
SCAN
— scans through the programmed channels.
FUNC
(function) — lets you use various functions by
pressing this key in combination with other keys.
MANUAL
— stops scanning and lets you directly enter a
channel number.
WX
— scans through the seven preprogrammed weather
channels.
TRUNK
— stores the trunking ID code or holds the trunk-
ing ID while scanning.
