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To make it easier to identify and select the channels you want to listen to, your scanner
divides the channels into 10 banks (0 to 9) of 50 (00 to 49) channels each, a total of 500
channels. You can use each channel-storage bank to group frequencies, such as those
used by different public safety agencies and jurisdictions in your area. Channel storage
banks can be easily enabled or disabled while scanning by pressing the number key that
corresponds with the desired channel storage bank.
For example, a particular city might use four frequencies for police communications, and
four frequencies for fire communications. You could program the police frequencies
starting with 000 (the first channel in bank 0) and program the fire department
frequencies starting with 100 (the first channel in bank 1). This gives you the ability to
quickly select what you wish to monitor by activating or deactivating the appropriate
channel storage bank. When looking at channel numbers, the first digit identifies the
bank (0 to 9). The second and third digits identify the channel within the bank (00 to 49).
Channels
Channels are storage locations for the actual frequencies you wish to monitor. Each
channel can be configured with a radio frequency, the desired mode for that frequency,
and settings to allow a short delay after a transmission or lock the channel out from
scanning operation. A channel can contain a conventional, non-trunked frequency, or a
frequency used in a trunking system.
Search Banks
Your scanner has six preprogrammed search banks configured to search various radio
services, and one limit search bank that you can configure. You can set the lower and
higher frequency limit in the limit search bank.
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For example, if you wanted to find active frequencies between a range of 150.1000
and 150.5000, you would put both of those frequencies in the limit search bank.
Understanding Your Scanner’s Channel Receive Modes
You can program each channel with any one of six receive modes (AM, FM/Digital,
CTCSS, DCS, Motorola, and EDACS).