Finding And Storing Active Frequencies; Searching The Service Banks - Radio Shack PRO-74 Owner's Manual

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• Your scanner automatically rounds the entered frequency to the
nearest valid frequency. For example, if you enter a frequency
of 151.473, your scanner accepts it as 151.475.
• Your scanner automatically delays scanning for 2 seconds after
a transmission ends before it proceeds to the next channel.
4. To program the next channel in sequence, press
Steps 2 and 3.
Note: If you previously stored a car number in a channel (see
"Storing a Car Number and Frequency" on Page 31), the scanner
clears the number when you store a new frequency into a channel.
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
"Service Banks" on Page 21). You can search for auto racing, marine,
VHF, aircraft, military, amateur radio, government, UHF, TV, and 800
MHz transmissions even if you do not know the specific frequencies
that are used in your area.
1. Press . A service bank's name,
BAND
search range appear.
Note: The frequency search range does not appear if the
CH service bank is selected.
MRN
2. To select a different service bank, repeatedly press s or t until the
desired bank name appears.
3. Press . The scanner starts searching the frequencies within
BAND
that service bank.
Note: To change the search direction, press s or t.
4. When the scanner stops on a transmission, quickly press either:
• t or s to continue searching
• to stop searching so you can listen to the transmission.
HOLD
HOLD appears.
and repeat
PROG
SEARCH , and the frequency
CAR or
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