Radio Shack ADV0801 Owner's Manual page 23

ADV0801 Owner's Manual Draft
Using the Object ID to directly access an object
You can use this address to quickly access your stored objects when in the Manual Mode and
PGM modes. Press MAN or PGM, then key the Object ID using the numeric keypad, then press
ENT to go to that object. In the above example, press MAN or PGM, then key 0348 ENT to jump
directly to that object.
Note that objects are not really "in" a Scan List, or Scan Lists. Objects are "mapped" to Scan
Lists, meaning that an object can be a member of one or more Scan Lists. In the above example,
10-348 means that the object itself is stored in memory address 0348, and is mapped to (at a
minimum) Scan List 10, and, if you were to use the ^ v keys to scroll up or down while viewing
Scan List 10, you will see all the other objects that are also mapped to Scan List 10.
More About Wildcard Scanning
As mentioned previously, a Wildcard TGRP object allows you to receive all radio traffic on a
trunked radio system.
A Wildcard TGRP works by catching talkgroup calls on the system that are not already stored
as objects in the radio's memory.
In order for the Wildcard TGRP to function properly, the radio needs to be in SCAN mode. This
is what enables the scanner to find the previously stored TGRP objects that need to be checked
before declaring that the found talkgroup is new and should be scanned as a Wildcard "hit".
If you park on a Wildcard TGRP object in MAN mode, the scanner is not able to "see" the
previously stored TGRP objects, and every call on the trunked radio system will come up as a
wildcard hit.
Displaying Memory Usage
Your scanner can report how much free memory is available for new objects, and show how
much memory has been used, and how the memory is allocated to different types of objects. To
display the memory usage report, use the power-on shortcut by pressing 0, then 0 again while
the Welcome/Owner screen is displayed just after the radio is powered on, or, press PGM, then
the GLOB softkey to access the Global configuration menu, then scroll down using the v key
until Memory Info:SEL appears in the display. Press SEL to view the memory usage report. Use
the ^ v keys to scroll the display.
Search Object Types
A very powerful feature of your ADV0801 is the ability to define different types of frequency
searches and process them while scanning. Frequency searches are just another type of
Scannable Object in the hierarchy of the radio's memory organization, so they can be
manipulated and scanned in the same manner as conventional channels and trunking
talkgroups.
There are several different types of frequency searches available in your scanner.
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