Filter
Top Products
12
UNDERSTANDING YOUR SCANNER
Once you understand a few simple terms we use in this manual and familiarize
yourself with your scanner’s features, you can put the scanner to work for you. You
simply determine the type of communications you want to receive, then set the
scanner to scan them.
A
frequenc
y
is the tuning location of a station (expressed in kHz or MHz). To find
active frequencies, you can use the
search
function.
You can also search the
service-search banks
, which are preset groups of fre-
quencies categorized by type of service.
When you find a frequency, you can store it into a programmable memory location
called a
channel
, which is grouped with your other channels in a
channel-stora
g
e
bank
. You can then
scan
the channel-storage banks to see if there is activity on
the frequencies stored there. Each time the scanner finds an active frequency, it
stays on that channel until the transmission ends.
A LOOK AT THE FRONT PANEL
Your scanner’s keys might seem confusing at first, but this information should help
you understand each key’s function.
Note:
Some of the scanner’s keys perform more than one function and are marked
with more than one label. The steps in this Owner’s Manual show only the label on
the key appropriate to the action being performed.
VOLUME
Turns the scanner on or off and adjusts the volume.
SQUELCH
Adjusts the scanner’s squelch.
20-430.fm Page 12 Wednesday, August 4, 1999 1:29 PM