Understanding Banks; Service Banks; Channel Storage Banks; Monitor Memories - Radio Shack PRO-94 Owner's Manual

UNDERSTANDING BANKS

Service Banks

The scanner is preprogrammed with all the frequencies
allocated to the weather, ham, marine, aircraft, and po-
lice (fire/emergency) services. This helps you quickly
find active frequencies instead of doing a limit search
(see "Service Bank Search" on Page 29).

Channel Storage Banks

To make it easier to identify and select the channels
you want to listen to, all the channels are divided into
main bank groups A and B. Each main bank group has
10 banks of 50 channels. Use each channel-storage
bank to group frequencies, such as those for the police
department, fire department, ambulance services, or
aircraft (see "Guide to the Action Bands" on Page 64).
For example, the police department might use four fre-
quencies in your town while the fire department uses an
additional four. You could program the four police fre-
quencies starting with Channel 1 (the first channel in
bank 1), and program the fire department frequencies
starting with Channel 51 (the first channel in bank 2).

Monitor Memories

The scanner also has 10 temporary memory locations
called monitor memories. Use these monitor memories
to temporarily store frequencies when you search
through an entire band (see "Searching For and Tem-
porarily Storing Active Frequencies" on Page 27). You
can then move a frequency to a channel for permanent
storage. See "Moving a Frequency From a Monitor
Memory to a Channel" on Page 31.
While you are searching frequencies, the 10 numbers
at the top of the display indicate the 10 monitor memo-
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ries. appears and the flashing number beside it in-
dicates the currently active monitor memory.
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