about your scanner
We use a few simple terms in this manual to explain the features of the scanner. Familiarize yourself with these terms and the scanner's features, and you can put the scanner to work for you right away. Simply determine the type of communications you want to receive, and then set the scanner to scan those communications.
A frequency, expressed in kHz or MHz, is the tuning location of a station. To find active frequencies, you use the search function or refer to a frequency refer- ence.
Besides searching within a selected frequency range, you can also search your scanner's service banks. Service banks are preset groups of frequen- cies categorized by the type of services that use those frequencies. For example, many amateur radio frequencies are located in the HAM service bank.
When you search and find a desired frequency, you can store it into a programmable memory location called a channel. Channels are grouped into
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