Searching; Setting Up Search Banks - AOR AR1000 Manual

AR1000 Operations

Searching

While you may obtain many of the frequencies you'll scan from frequency guides
or from other scanner enthusiasts, one of the most interesting and exciting
aspects of scanning is to discover these transmissions and frequencies on your
own. This is done by searching through specific frequency bands. The AR1000
will let you specify a lower and upper frequency limit, a step increment, and a
transmission mode, and then will search through the frequencies, using these
limits, for any activity. Once you find an active frequency that you are interested
in, you can easily copy it to a scan channel.
Where should you look, in the vast electromagnetic spectrum for a frequency you
are interested in? Fortunately, most kinds of communications activity are
grouped in frequency bands, so if you search the appropriate band, you will have
a good chance of finding what you are looking for. Check the Applications
section of this guide for more specific tips on how to search for frequencies.

Setting up search banks

There are ten individual search banks in the AR1000. Each bank holds a set of
limits, a step increment, and a transmission mode. These banks come in very
handy if there are several parts of the radio spectrum that you regularly search
through. Just select a search bank you have previously set up and start searching.
Normally, when you press the SEARCH button, the AR1000 will start searching
through the range specified in bank 0 and when it hits the upper limit of the
range, it will then start with the range specified in bank 1. It will continue in this
manner until it hits the upper limit of bank 9 and then start over with the range
specified in bank 0 again. As with the scan banks, you can lock and limit the
search banks that you use. Working with search banks, however, is a bit more
complicated than working with scan banks.
To set up a
• Press SEARCH.
search bank SEARCH will appear in the display. You can't set up a search bank while in Scan or Manual
mode. You must be in Search mode.
• Press PROG.
PROG will appear in the display. MHz will flash in the display.
• Enter the lower frequency limit.
LIMIT will flash in the display. Use the CLEAR key if you make a mistake.
• Press LIMIT.
MHz will flash in the display.
• Enter the upper frequency limit.
• Press ENT.
KHz will flash in the display.
• Enter the step increment.
• Press ENT.
The current mode will flash in the display (AM, FM, WFM).
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