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Understanding service banks/banks – Radio Shack 20-423 User Manual

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Understanding Your Scanner

SRCH

— appears during service bank and

direct frequency searches.

SCAN

— appears when you scan channels.

MAN

— appears when you manually select a

channel.

PGM

— appears while you program

frequencies into the scanner's channels.

PRI

— appears when you turn on the priority

feature.

DLY

— appears when you program a 2-

second delay.

Error

— appears when you make an entry

error.

-dUPL-

(Duplicate) — appears when you

try to store a frequency that is already stored
in another channel.

-d-

— appears during a direct frequency

search.

-b-

— appears during a service bank

frequency search.

Ch-FULL

— appears when you try to enter

a frequency during a search when all
channels are full.

F L-out

— appears when you start direct

search from a locked-out frequency.

FLo

-FULL

— appears when you try to

lockout a frequency during a search when 50
frequencies are already locked out.

L-r

— appears when you review the lockout

frequencies.

dEFAULt

— appears when you unlock all

the locked-out frequencies from the service
bank.

FLo

ALL-CL

— appears when you remove

all the locked out frequencies during a
service bank/direct search.

P

— appears when the scanner is tuned to

the priority channel.

ALErt

— appears when the scanner is

watching the WX alert tone.

WIrEd

— appears when you turn on the

wired programming mode.

StArt

— appears when the scanner starts

wired programming.

C-Err

— appears when the scanner

receives a check sum error during wired
programming.

D-Err

— appears when the scanner finds a

data error while using wired programming.

End

— appears when the scanner finishes

wired programming.

oFF

tonE

— appears when you set the key

tone off.

on

tonE

— appears when you set the key

tone on.

UNDERSTANDING SERVICE
BANKS/BANKS

Channel Storage Banks

To make it easier to identify and select the
channels you want to listen to, channels are
divided into 10 banks of 20 channels each.
Use each channel-storage bank to group
frequencies, such as those used by the
police department, fire department,
ambulance services, or aircraft (see “Guide
to the Action Bands” on Page 23). For
example, the police department might use
four frequencies, one for each side of town.
You could program the police frequencies
starting with Channel 1 (the first channel in
bank 1) and program the fire department
frequencies starting with Channel 21 (the
first channel in bank 2).