Understanding Banks; Channel Storage Banks; Monitor Memories - Radio Shack PRO-76 Owner's Manual

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Appears when the priority feature is turned on.
PRI
SCAN Appears when the scanner scans channels.
Appears during limit, direct, and weather band
SRCH
searches.
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 35).
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).

MONITOR MEMORIES

The scanner has 10 monitor memories that you can use to tem-
porarily store frequencies while you decide whether to save
them into channels. This is handy for quickly storing an active
frequency when you are searching through an entire band. You
can store a frequency into a monitor memory during a limit or di-
rect search. See "Finding and Storing Active Frequencies" on
Page 23.
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