When the scanner stops on a transmission, quickly press either:

HOLD to stop searching so you can listen to the transmission. HOLD appears.

MON/CLEAR to store the displayed frequency into the current monitor memory.

To release hold and continue searching, press HOLD or hold down t or s for at least 1 second. Or, if you did not press HOLD, simply press t or s to continue searching.

Note: Because there are many different frequencies al- located to fire and police departments, it takes several minutes to search all these frequencies.

Search Skip Memory

You can skip up to 20 specified frequencies during a limit or direct search and up to 20 specified frequencies during a service bank search. This lets you avoid un- wanted frequencies or ones you have already stored in a channel.

To skip a frequency, press S/S when the scanner stops on the frequency dur- ing a limit, direct, or service

search.

scanner stores

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in memory

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sumes the search.

To clear a single frequency from skip memory so the scanner once again stops on it during a limit, direct, or service bank search:

1.Press HOLD to hold the search.

2.Press t or s to select the frequency. L/O ap-pears.

3.Press S/S. L/O disappears.

To clear all the skip frequencies at once while search- ing, press HOLD, then hold down S/S until the scanner beeps twice (about 3 seconds).

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