Glossary - Radio Shack iSCAN PRO-18 User Manual

Glossary

Attenuator
Channel (object)
CTCSS/DCS
FIPS
Intermodulation
Monitor
Playlist
Priority
SAME
Scan
Scanner
Search
Signal Stalker ll
Site
Skip
Squelch
Step Size
Skywarn
Talkgroup
Trunked Radio
System
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Reduces interference due to intermodulation.
A frequency or talkgroup and its associated information.
Continuous Tone-Coded Squelch System/Digital Coded
Squelch System, a squelch control system which reduces
interference when using the same frequency.
Federal Information Processing Standard. A code used to
identify geographic locations for SAME weather alerts.
Occurs when two or more strong signals mix, generating a
false frequency and distorted sound.
Rather than scanning frequencies, to monitor is to keep the
scanner tuned to a single frequency, waiting for a transmission.
A customized set of channels that can be managed as a group.
Identifies a particular frequency whose transmissions should
not be missed while scanning other frequencies.
Specific Area Message Encoding system. NOAA broadcasts
alerts corresponding to specified areas.
Search to find an active frequency through channels.
Wide band radio receiver that can receive Aircraft, CB, Fire,
FRS, HAM, Military, Public Safety, Railroad, Weather broadcast,
etc.
Search an active frequency though frequency bands.
Powerful tool for rapidly finding a nearby signal.
A set of control frequencies for a trunked system's service area.
You must select at least one site to import talkgroups.
Skips over specified frequencies or channels.
Increases or decreases the scanner's ability to receiving signals.
Incremental frequency size, determined by FCC.
Network of radio repeater frequencies for severe weather
information.
A group of users who share a small number for frequencies in
a trunked radio system.
System developed to use radio spectrum efficiently. Trunked
radio systems all multiple users to share a small number of
frequencies.
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