Radio Shack 20-422 Understanding Banks and Bands, CHANNEL-STORAGE Banks, Monitor Memories

UNDERSTANDING BANKS AND BANDS

You can store frequencies into either a programmable memory location called a channel, or a temporary memory loca- tion called a monitor memory. You can store a frequency in each of the scan- ner’s channels (up to 200) and up to 10 monitor memories.

Your scanner also has eight frequency bands, each covering a specific range of frequencies you can search.

CHANNEL-STORAGE BANKS

To make it easier to identify and select the frequencies you want to listen to, the scanner’s channels are divided into 10 channel-storage banks (1–9 and 0) of 20 channels each. You can use each channel-storage bank to group frequen- cies, such as those used by the police department, fire department, ambulance services, and amateur radio operators (see “Guide to the Action Bands” on Page 23).

For example, there might be three or four police departments in your area, each using several different frequencies. Additionally, there might be other law enforcement agencies such as state po- lice, county sheriffs, or SWAT teams that use their own frequencies. You could program all law enforcement fre- quencies starting with Channel 1 (the first channel in Bank 1), then program the fire department, paramedic, and oth- er public safety frequencies starting with Channel 21 (the first channel in Bank 2).

MONITOR MEMORIES

Monitor memories are temporary stor- age areas where you can store up to ten frequencies during a search while you decide whether to save them into chan- nels. You can manually select and listen to frequencies stored in monitor memo- ries.

FREQUENCY BANDS

Your scanner has eight frequency bands, each covering a specific range of frequencies. You can search these bands for specific broadcasts by repeat- edly pressing BAND until the scanner displays the band you want.

For example, you can search through all frequencies between 29.000 and 54.000 MHz for specific broadcasts by repeat- edly pressing BAND until 29-54ap- pears. The scanner then automatically searches the frequencies in that band.

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