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About Your Scanner
— appears when the battery save function is active
(during conventional scanning only).
WX
HAM
MRN
AIR
POL
— appears along with an indica-
tor which shows the current service bank during a ser-
vice search.
ALERT
— appears when the weather alert is turned on,
or flashes when the scanner detects an alert coded sig-
nal.
M
or
E
— indicate either a Motorola (
M
) trunking system
or EDACS (
E
) system.
CH
— appears with a number to its left to indicate to
which channel the scanner is tuned to.
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 27).
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 de-
partment, fire department, ambulance services, or air-
craft (see “Guide to the Action Bands” on Page 59).
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).
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