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UNDERSTANDING CHANNEL STORAGE
BANKS
You can store up to 210 frequencies into your scanner’s
memory. You store each frequency into either a permanent
memory, called a channel, or a temporary memory, called a
monitor. There are 200 available channels and 10 available
monitor memories.
To make it easier to identify and select the channels you
want to listen to, channels are divided into 10 groups of 20
channels each. Each group of channels is called a channel
storage bank. Perhaps the best way to explain the use of
channel storage banks is through a practical example.
Suppose you want to monitor four different agencies: police,
fire, ambulance, and aircraft. As a rule, each agency uses
several different frequencies and uses each frequency for a
different purpose. The police might have four frequencies—
one for each side of town. To make it easier to quickly deter¬
mine which agency you are listening to, you could program
the police frequencies starting with Channel 1 (Bank 1).
Then start the fire department on Channel 21 (Bank 2), the
ambulance service on Channel 41 (Bank 3), and aircraft fre¬
quencies on Channel 61 (Bank 4).
This also makes it easier to listen for only one type of call.
For example, if you want to listen to only fire calls, you can
turn off all banks other than Bank 2. You could also use this
feature to group channels by city or by county.
You can use the 10 monitor memories to temporarily store
frequencies while you decide whether to save them in chan¬
nels. This is handy for quickly storing an active frequency
when you search through an entire band. You can manually
select these memories, but you cannot scan them. See
"Searching for Active Frequencies."
When you are listening to monitor memories, the 10 num¬
bers at the top of the display indicate the 10 monitor memo¬
ries. The bar indicates the current monitor memory.
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