Radio Shack PRO-528 manual Understanding banks, Service banks

The Basics

Besides searching within a selected frequency range, you can also search your scanner’s service banks. Service banks are preset groups of frequencies 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 channel-storage banks. The scanner has 10 channel-storage banks. Each bank contains 100-channel sets. So the scanner has

1,000 channels. You can scan the channel- storage banks to see if there is activity on the frequencies stored there.

Note: You search frequencies

when you want to find your local Notes frequencies and scan channels

after you programmed your found frequencies.

understanding banks

service banks

The scanner is preprogrammed with all the frequencies allocated to the ham, marine, aircraft, and police (fire/emergency) services. This helps you quickly find active frequencies instead of doing a chain search (see “service bank search”).

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