Radio Shack ADV0801 Owner's Manual page 29

ADV0801 Owner's Manual Draft
It may be desirable to segregate object types by assigning them to specific Scan Lists. For
example, you can assign a group of LMIT or SRVC searches to a single Scan List, and easily
activate or deactivate searching on those objects by enabling or disabling the associated Scan
List. You may wish to place your wildcard TGRP group call or private call objects in a separate
Scan List.
By application
You can group objects by their application. For example, you may wish to place all law
enforcement related objects for your area in one Scan List, all fire and rescue objects in another,
and all business related objects in yet another Scan List. Racing fans may wish to group objects
for different cars, drivers, teams and tracks into separate Scan Lists.
By Favorites
The Favorites (FAV) Scan List is a powerful tool that can be used to quickly narrow (or expand)
your scanning profile.
In addition to the normal Scan List map, each Scannable Object menu includes a FAV (yes/no)
item. When FAV is set to YES, the object is a member of the Favorites Scan List in addition to
the other Scan Lists that it is mapped to in the normal Scan List map.
When you press the FAV key, the radio suspends scanning of all objects in the radio except for
those that are set to FAV=YES in their object menus.
You can also add any object to the FAV Scan List by pressing the FUNC key, then FAV while the
object is active during SCAN mode, or while parked on the object in MAN and PROGRAM
mode.
It is also possible to clear the FAV Scan List completely by pressing PGM, then the GLOB
softkey, then scrolling to down to the Clear FAV menu item. Press the SEL key to set FAV=NO
for all objects, press the YES softkey to confirm the action, then press the Save softkey to save
your changes.
For example, you may wish to leave the FAV Scan List empty, and add your favorites while
scanning by pressing FUNC, then FAV when objects of interest are active. This can be useful
during a major event, where you wish to quickly isolate objects of interest by pressing FUNC
FAV when they are active, then pressing FAV to scan only those objects.
The Favorites Scan List is also useful to group objects that are very close to where you live, so
that when you press the FAV key, you are only scanning objects that are in your immediate
vicinity, making the radio less active and increasing the chances that you will not miss
important local activity.
Use your imagination and you will probably come up with many other ways to use the Favorites
Scan List feature.
Mapping Objects to Scan Lists
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