[Electronics-talk] Police scanner question

[Kenlawrence124 at aol.com]

Hi Ken here with a question that I don't think comes up much.  I have  a 
scanner, and while I know the search function to find frequencies isn't blind  
friendly, I seem to think programming into the private bank is.  The  
Scanner has preprogrammed into it frequencies in a Police and an EMS/fire  bank.  
There are so many in the police block I've hit the lockout button so  many 
times I've lost count.  I finally found the Rahway NJ police and am  
listening to it.  What I'm trying to do is program it into the private bank  of 
fifty channels.  Supposedly what you can do is when you're scanning and  you 
hit a frequency you like and want to put it in to private channels, you  first 
put the scanner on that spot by hitting the hold button.  Does anyone  
remember the correct sequence of the programming function, in other words in  
what order do I hit the private and program buttons to lock it in to the 
private  bank?  I think I lost the book.  It's a bearcat forget the model  
number, but as mentioned it has frequencies preprogrammed into it.  Police  
EMS/fire, Ham Radio, marine and aircraft, and weather all have frequencies  
programmed in to it.  There are in the EMS/fire and police banks slots to  add 
more frequencies to it.  I forget how many frequencies are in each  group, but 
the police had a lot of electronic sounds, Birdies and other  continuous 
transmissions that had to be locked out and that doesn't count all of  the NYPD 
and FDNY and EMS frequencies that are all over the 470 and 480 MHZ  bands.  
Again this is a Bearcat scanner.  
 
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