Pro-2052: How to Store Service Banks Frequencies

In this tutorial you will be shown how to search through a service bank and how to store service bank frequencies into channels. You can search for public service, police, fire/emergency, aircraft, and weather transmissions even if you do not know the specific frequencies that are used in your area. You can also store any of the frequencies you find into channels.

Your scanner has the following preprogrammed service banks:

PUB - contains 140 public service frequencies
POLICE - contains 2,392 police frequencies
FIRE/EMG - contains 197 fire and emergency service frequencies
AIR - contains 2,319 aircraft and air service frequencies
WX - contains 7 weather frequencies

This tutorial uses two sub-tutorials:

Select a Service Bank
Store Service Bank Frequencies into Channels

For additional information on this product, see the links below:

Select a Service Bank

Step 1: Search Service Banks



To select a service bank, press SVC. A black box will appear above the service bank's name and one of the preset public service frequencies appear on the display. After a 2-second delay, scanning begins in the selected bank.



Step 2: Select More Service Banks



To select another service bank, repeatedly press SVC until the black box appears above the name of the bank you want to use. Note: Because frequencies are not always assigned to the same services everywhere, you might hear transmissions from one service in another service bank.



Step 3: Search the Selected Service Bank



Press SEARCH to start searching immediately or to continue searching if you want to skip a frequency.



Step 4: Pause Search



During a service-search, you can press HOLD to pause the searching. HOLD appears on the display.



Step 5: Move Through Frequencies One at a Time



Press the UP or DOWN arrow keys to move up or down one frequency at a time.



Step 6: Search Additional Frequencies



Press SEARCH to resume searching.

Store Service Bank Frequencies into Channels

Step 1: Initiate Manual Mode



Press MANUAL. MANUAL appears on the display.



Step 2: Select a Channel Number



Press the number keys to enter the channel number (1-1000) where you want to store the frequency, then press MANUAL. The example above shows the channel 4.



Step 3: Store the Channel Number



Press MANUAL. The selected channel number will appear on the display.



Step 4: Select the Service Bank



Press the SVC button to select a service bank.



Step 5: Search the Service Bank Frequencies



Press SEARCH to begin searching the frequencies



Step 6: Pause Search



When the scanner stops on a transmission, press HOLD.



Step 7: Store the Service Bank Frequency



Press E to store the frequency into the channel.