Public Safety*
News Media (broadcast channels including IFB audio feeds)
Ham Radio (10-meter, 6-meter, 2-meter-, 220, 440, etc.)
Marine
Railroad
Air
CB Radio
FRS/GMRS
Racing
FM Broadcast
Military Air
Special (all low-power walkie-talkie frequencies)
* This is a general search through the popular public safety bands which does include what is now UHF TV in some areas and public safety in
others between 470-512 MHz, this can cause the search to lock up in areas where TV signals are used in this band.)
Note that in the marine and railroad service searches the scanner will show both the frequency and the rail or marine radio channel number, a
very handy feature.
Range Searches
Called Custom Searches in the Menu, these allow you to set up specified frequency ranges to search. Set a lower and upper limit, a couple other
parameters and off you go. If you know your monitoring target uses radios in the 460-465 range for example, set up a search between these
limits and listen for your target. You can also set these up to search for trunked control channels to search out trunked systems.
Search & Store
During your searches you can have the radio store finds and then you can refer to them later. This can be done on a trunked system, in which
case the radio will store active Talkgroups, or on conventional (non-trunked) frequency ranges, where it saves the actual frequencies it finds.
You can also use this on Service Searches.
Search & Scan & More
You can even set it to search one or more ranges, or one or more service searches, then scan some groups and then return back to searching.
This is a unbelievable feature that not everyone takes advantage of but we highly recommend it. (For example if your doing rail-fanning/rail-
scanning by searching the RR service search range you can also scan the local police and fire departments at the same time.) Temporary and
regular lockouts also work for most searches. Some of the Close Call search functions are also applicable to regular search.
Quick-Access Search Keys
This allows you to have 3 different Searches preset in your radio. You then can turn on any of these quickly and perform the search you want.
Search & Close Call Options
CTCSS, DCS CC Search
You can set the radio to search for CTCSS and DCS codes during searches, the code will appear on the display if there is such a code
transmitted.
You can use this feature to determine the proper codes used for your monitoring targets and program these into your Systems and Groups.
These are also handy to use as sort of a fingerprint. For example, you hear traffic on a new channel in your area that could be any of several
local fire departments. You know that on their regular channels that Mayberry uses a CTCSS of 127.3, Mt. Pilot uses a DCS code of 311 and
Riverdale uses a CTCSS of 192.8. If your Search hit uses a CTCSS of 127.3 you can make an educated guess that the traffic might be
Mayberry.
