Understanding Banks; Service Banks; Channel Storage Banks - Radio Shack HANDHELD TRUNKING 20-521 Owner's Manual

MON — appears during search modes or when you
select a monitor memory. The number to the right of
this indicator shows the current monitor memory num-
ber.
— appears when you press
MAN
— appears while you store a frequency into a
PGM
channel, while you enter a frequency range during a
limit search, or when you program trunking frequen-
cies, fleet maps, or ID memories while trunk tracking.
— appears while Hyperscan or Hypersearch
HYPER
is active during a direct or limit search.
t and s — appears during a limit, direct, or service
search, indicating the search direction.
— appears when the battery save function is active
S
(during conventional scanning only).

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 is handy for quickly
finding active frequencies instead of doing a limit
search (see "Service Bank Search" on Page 28).

Channel Storage Banks

To make it easier to identify and select the channels
you want to listen to, channels are divided into 5 banks
of 30 channels each. Use each channel-storage bank
to group frequencies, such as those for the police de-
partment, fire department, ambulance services, or air-
craft (see "Guide to the Action Bands" on Page 58).
For example, the police department might use four fre-
quencies, one for each side of town. You could pro-
gram the police frequencies starting with Channel 1
(the first channel in bank 1), and program the fire de-
partment frequencies starting with Channel 31 (the first
channel in bank 2).
22
.
MAN