Finding And Storing Active Frequencies; Searching The Service Banks - Radio Shack 20-423 Owner's Manual

4. To program the next channel in
sequence, press
PGM
2 and 3.
FINDING AND STORING
ACTIVE FREQUENCIES

Searching the Service Banks

Your scanner contains groups of preset
frequencies called service banks. Each
service bank is associated with a specific
activity (see "Understanding Service Banks/
Banks" on Page 10). You can search for fire/
police, air, ham, and marine transmissions
even if you do not know the specific
frequencies that are used in your area. Then
you can store the frequencies you found into
the scanner's channels or monitor memories.
Note: You can use the scanner's delay
feature while searching the service banks
(see "Using the Delay Function" on
Page 20).
The following steps describe the operation of
the HAM, FD/PD, and AIR service banks. To
listen to the marine bank, see "Listening to
the Marine Bank" on Page 19.
1. Press . The last selected band
BAND
name (such as HAM
frequency and the group number (if any)
appear.
2. To select a different band, repeatedly
press until the desired band name
BAND
appears on the display. After about 2
seconds, the scanner begins searching
rapidly up or down in that band for an
active frequency.
Notes:
• To search through the frequencies,
8 8 8 8
hold down or
seconds. The scanner tunes through
the frequencies until it finds an active
frequency .
and repeat Steps
), SRCH , -b- , the
9 9 9 9
for a few
Operation
• To reverse the search direction at any
8 8 8 8
time, hold down
scanner reverses the search
direction.
• To search the band up or down in
small increments repeatedly press
8 8 8 8
and release or
Banks" on Page 11).
• To pause the search while receiving a
signal, press and release
To continue the search, hold down
9 9 9 9
or for about 2 seconds.
• To move quickly up or down through
the frequencies, press and hold down
8 8 8 8 9 9 9 9
or . The scanner tunes through
the frequencies until you release
9 9 9 9
or .
• Use the number keys to select search
groups.
3. When the scanner finds an active
frequency, it stops searching and
displays the frequency's number. To
store the displayed frequency in the
lowest available channel, press
then press . The channel and
ENTER
frequency flash twice, and the scanner
stores the displayed frequency. The
scanner then continues to search for
frequencies.
Notes:
• If there is no empty channel,
FULL appears when you press
To store more frequencies, you must
clear some channels. See "Clearing a
Stored Channel" on Page 18. To
continue searching after
appears, press and hold down
9 9 9 9
.
• If you entered a frequency that is
already stored in another channel,
and the lowest-numbered
dUPL-
channel containing the duplicate
9 9 9 9
or until the
9 9 9 9
(see "Service
8 8 8 8 9 9 9 9
or .
8 8 8 8
8 8 8 8
PGM
Ch-
.
PGM
Ch-FULL
8 8 8 8
or
-
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