Radio Shack ADV0801 Owner's Manual page 16

ADV0801 Owner's Manual Draft
vv EXPERT BELOW vv
This line is found in the object menus and the Global configuration menus. Its purpose is to
delineate between the basic settings that are important to each object and the operation of the
radio, and the expert settings that may be of interest to advanced users, but, if left alone, will
not adversely impact the operation of the radio. For more information about the Basic and
Expert settings, please refer to the Detailed Menu Reference at the end of this User's Guide.
Use the ^v keys to scroll the screen until the flashing cursor appears next to the Freq: label.
Key in a known local frequency and press the ENT key, or press the DONE softkey - either one
will do the same thing. There! You just entered the frequency for your first CONV object.
By default, your new CONV object will be tagged "Channel". If you'd like to change this, just
scroll the screen down one click until the flashing cursor highlights the Tag: field, then press
SEL to edit the tag. You can move the cursor around using the < > keys on the 5-way
pushbutton pad, use CL to clear the old text, or press FUNC CL to erase the entire field. To
enter text, find the letter you want to enter on the front panel of the radio, press the numeric
key beneath it, then press 1, 2, 3, or 4 depending on the position of the letter in the group for
that number. For example, to enter FIRE, press:
3 3 F
4 3 I
7 3 R
3 2 E
Press ENT or DONE softkey to store the new tag information for your CONV object.
Now you are ready to store your first CONV object. There are other parameters that you can
change, and we invite you to scroll through the CONV menu to see the other settings that are
available. You can experiment with the different settings. If you make a change that you aren't
certain about, press the Dflt softkey to restore the setting to its original values.
When you're ready, simply press the Save softkey to save your new conventional object. Once
the object is saved, you can continue to enter other new objects, or press MAN to listen to the
CONV object you just entered, or SCAN to start scanning!
NOTE: Your scanner uses Scan Lists as a way to group objects together according to your
preferences for scanning. By default, all new objects are mapped to Scan List 01. There are a
total of twenty regular Scan Lists in your radio, a special Favorites Scan List, and a Scan List to
hold Skywarn objects. Scan List membership for an object is assigned in the individual object
menus. For now, just let your new objects go to the default Scan List 01. Later in this section we
will show you how you can group your objects into Scan Lists.
NOTE: When entering data into a numerical field, you can start typing as soon as you have
scrolled to the desired field, which will replace the contents of the field with your new entry.
Alternatively, you can press the > key, which will preserve the original contents of the field so
you can make small changes without retyping all of the data.
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