Glossary - Radio Shack PRO-2051 User Manual

Beyond the Basics

glossary

Channel - a programmable memory location. Channels are
grouped into channel-storage banks. Your scanner has 10 channel-
storage banks and each bank has 100 channels.
Channel-Storage Banks - Groups of channels, used for frequency
storage.
Data Skip - allows your scanner to skip unwanted data
transmissions and reduces birdies.
Highway Patrol/State Police Alert - warns you when you are
within about 3 miles of highway patrol/state police units.
Hypersearch - increases the search speed to 300 steps per second
for search ranges with 5 kHz steps.
Multi-Track - tracks more than one trunking system at a time. You
can scan conventional and trunked systems at the same time.
PC Programmable - allows you to easily program all frequencies
and trunking talk groups into your scanner through a software
running on your PC.
SAME Weather Alert - automatically sounds the alarm tone to
advice of the hazardous weather condition and indicate the event
of the weather condition.
Service Banks - preset groups of frequencies categorized by the
type of services that use those frequencies.
Signal Stalker - lets you set the scanner so it detects then displays
the frequency of a nearby strong radio transmission.
Skywarn - lets you jump directly to the last channel in memory
(Channel 1000) from any transmission. You can program this
channel with the frequency of your local Skywarn broadcaster.
Trunk Tracking - lets you follow VHF high band, UHF 800MHz
trunked public safety, and public service systems just as if
conventional two-way communications were used.
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