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Basic Scanning Operation
Now that you have entered a few CONV or TGRP objects you can experiment with Scan and
Manual operation.
Activating Scan Mode will cause your scanner to scan through all Scannable Objects that are
members of enabled Scan Lists and are not locked out. Manual Mode allows you to browse the
Scannable Objects you have created so you can select just one to monitor.
To activate Scan Mode, just press the SCAN key on the keypad. Unless you have explicitly
changed Scan List membership, all of the objects you have entered so far should be mapped to
Scan List 01, and your scanner should begin scanning these objects immediately when you press
SCAN. The scanner display indicates Scan Mode.
Study the two rows under the "Scanning" display. Each space represents the status of a Scan
List in your radio. The top row of numbers represents Scan Lists 1 through 10, and the bottom
row represents Scan Lists 11 through 20. Unless you have already enabled other Scan Lists in
your radio, you will only see the number "1" in the top row. All of the other spaces contain "."
symbols, which indicates that these other Scan Lists are currently not enabled.
If you have included one or more TGRP objects in your programming, and are within range of
the trunked radio system for those TGRPs, you will see the T icon flash periodically while the
radio is scanning. The T icon indicates that the scanner is receiving control channel data from a
trunked radio system.
To pause the scanner on an active object so that the scanner does not resume scanning, press
the PSE (Pause) key while the scanner is stopped on that object, and press PSE or SCAN to
resume scanning. Alternatively, you may press MAN to monitor an active object. Although PSE
and MAN both stop the scanner on the active object, there are some small differences in how
they operate. PSE pauses the scanner but keeps the scanner in scan mode, resulting in faster
stop/start operation. MAN stops scan mode completely, and allows you to browse the file system
to select other objects to monitor.
While the scanner is Manual Mode, you can browse through the stored objects in your scanner
and select one object to monitor. Use the ^ and v keys on the 5-way pushbutton pad to scroll
through the objects assigned to the current Scan List. The > and < keys on the 5-way
pushbutton pad are used to browse up and down through the Scan Lists, respectively. Only Scan
Lists that contain objects are shown when browsing. A quick low-high wrap beep is played when
the scanner reaches the last occupied Scan List and wraps back to the beginning.
When the scanner is stopped on a TGRP while scanning, or paused in Manual Mode, the display
will appear as follows:
LCD illustration
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