Question about step

[justin1982]

I just downloaded the arc96 program and first off let me tell you (as if you didn't already know) this sure as hell beats punching everything manually lol.
After downloading my Pro-96's memory onto the computer I got a good overview of how everything is set up.
One thing I did notice is that I use 5 banks for various MOT II trunking and I noticed that three of the banks are set up for 12.5 step and the other two are 25 and I dont ever remember altering the step. What was the factory setting? Does it matter for MOT type II? Also I enjoy searching and trying to tune in to military air frequencies and I noticed some people saying on various sites that when you are searching for MILair frequencies that you should have the step set a certain way. Can I adjust the step using this program? If so what should it be set at?
Thank you for any help.

[gmclam]

When programming a scanner to SCAN stuff, the "step size" does not matter. The scanner will merely monitor the frequencies you've entered.

The step size comes in to play when you are SEARCHING for new stuff - that is using the SEARCH function of the scanner. The way it works is the scanner starts at the low frequency (it could start at the high frequency if you search down instead of up) and then adds the step amount and checks that frequency. It continues to do this until it reaches the high frequency of the search range.

It used to be fairly clear as to what step size to use depending on the "band" of frequencies you are in. Some bands would use 15 kHz, some 25 kHz and so on. Now there is this thing called narrow banding which is "splitting" channels into two. So where there was once 25 kHz steps, it is now 12.5 kHz. Plus there are more bands/etc to deal with.

[justin1982]

I knew the step size was irrelevant for a search bank with existing frequencies.
But I didn't know if it had to be specific when tuning or searching from say for example 300.0000-350.0000. Thank you for the help.