YOUR SCANNER
Once you understand a few simple terms we use in this manual and familiarize yourself with your scanner’s fea- tures, you can put the scanner to work for you. You simply determine the communications you want to receive, then set the scanner to scan those frequencies.
A frequency is the tuning location of a station (expressed in kHz or MHz). To find active frequencies, you can use the search function to search bands, which are preset ranges of frequencies.
When you find a frequency, you can store it into a perma- nent memory location called a channel. You can then scan the channels to see if there is activity on the frequen- cies stored there. Each time the scanner finds an active frequency, it stays on that channel until the transmission ends.
Another option is to store the frequency into a temporary memory location called a monitor memory until you de- cide to move it to a channel.
Just keep in mind — you search frequencies and scan channels.
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