UNDERSTANDING BANKS AND BANDS
You can store frequencies into either a permanent memory location called a channel, or a temporary memory loca- tion called a monitor memory. You can store up to 90 channels and up to 3 monitor memories.
Your scanner also has eight frequency bands, each covering a specific range of frequencies you can search.
MONITOR MEMORIES
Monitor memories are temporary stor- age areas where you can store up to three frequencies during a search while you decide whether to save them into channels. You can manually select and listen to monitor memories.
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 3
For example, there might be three or four police departments in your area, each using several different frequen- cies. Additionally, there might be other law enforcement agencies such as state police, county sheriffs, or SWAT teams that use their own frequencies. You could program all law enforce- ment frequencies starting with Chan- nel 1 (the first channel in Bank 1), then program the fire department, para- medic, and other public safety fre- quencies starting with Channel 31 (the first channel in Bank 2).
FREQUENCY BANDS
Your scanner has eight frequency bands, each covering a specific range of frequencies. You can search these bands for specific broadcasts by re- peatedly 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 repeatedly pressing BAND until 29- 54 appears on the display. The scan- ner then automatically searches the frequencies in that band.
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