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Service Bank Search
Your scanner contains groups of preset frequencies
called Service Banks. You can search for marine, fire/
police, aircraft, ham, and weather transmissions even if
you do not know the specific frequencies that are used
in your area. Then you can store the frequencies you
find into the scanner’s channels (except for weather and
marine banks, which are already stored as channels).
1.
Press
,
,
,
,
or
.
MAr, FIrE POLICE
,
AIr
,
HAM,
or
WEAtHEr
appears respectively. After about two seconds, the
service search starts.
2.
To search for another active frequency in the
selected bank, press
e
or
d
.
See
“Preprogrammed Service Bank Frequencies”
on page 6
for a list of the frequencies.
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Notes:
• Press
•/Delay
to turn the two-second delay feature
on and off.
• Press
L/O
to lock-out a frequency.
• Press
PSE
to pause searching. Press
PSE
again to
resume.
• To reverse the search direction at any time, press
e
or
d
.
• If necessary, you can select search groups using the
number keys.
•
The frequencies in the scanner’s Service Banks are
preset. You cannot change them.
Signal Stalker II Search
Signal Stalker II is a powerful tool to rapidly detect,
monitor, store, or lock-out frequencies from nearby
radio transmissions.
You can search for activity on all banks, Police/Fire,
Aircraft, or Ham Service Banks.
• When the scanner is in manual, scan, or tune mode,
press
to search for activity on all banks.
• When the scanner is in the Police/Fire, Aircraft, or
Ham Service Bank, press
to search for activity on
the corresponding bank.
• Activate and deactivate frequency sub-banks by
pressing the corresponding number key while Signal
Stalker II is searching.
Once an active frequency is found, the transmission is
played and you can store it in the scanner’s channel-
storage banks.
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Note:
Priority mode is not available while using
Signal Stalker II.
Storing Found Frequencies into
Channels
Once you find interesting frequencies during a Tune,
Service Bank, or Signal Stalker II search, you can store
them in the scanner’s channel-storage banks.
1.
Press
ENT
when you find a frequency. The bank
number and
StorE
appear.
2.
If you want to change banks, enter the new bank
number.
.
Press
ENT
to store the frequency. The channel and
frequency flash twice. To cancel the operation,
press
TUNE/CLEAR
.
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Notes:
•
The frequency is automatically stored in the first
empty channel of the selected bank.
•
If the scanner displays -
dUPL
-, the frequency is
already stored in another channel. Press
ENT
if
you want to continue storing the frequency. Press
TUNE/CLEAR
to cancel.
• If there are no empty channels in the bank,
Ch-FULL
appears. You can select another bank
or clear some channels in the current bank (s
ee
“Clearing a Stored Channel”
on page 25).
