on tonE Appears when you turn the key tone on.

PAppears when the scanner is tuned to the priority channel.

PGM

Appears when you program frequencies into the

 

scanner’s channels.

PRI

Appears when the priority feature is turned on.

SCAN

Appears when the scanner scans channels.

SRCH

Appears during service bank and direct frequen-

 

cy searches.

StArt

Appears when the scanner starts wired program-

 

ming.

WirEd

Appears when you set the scanner to its wired

 

programming mode to program frequencies into

 

it.

WX

Indicates that the scanner is searching the

 

weather channels.

UNDERSTANDING BANKS

Channel Storage Banks

To make it easier to identify and select the channels you want to listen to, channels are divided into 10 banks of 20 channels each. Use each channel-storage bank to group frequencies, such as those used by the police department, fire department, ambulance services, or aircraft (see “Guide to the Action Bands” on Page 42).

For example, the police department might use four frequencies, one for each side of town. You could program the police fre- quencies starting with Channel 1 (the first channel in bank 1) and program the fire department frequencies starting with Chan- nel 21 (the first channel in bank 2).

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