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ADV0801 Owner's Manual Draft
You may have noticed that the menus for each object you create include various settings for
LED, Backlight and Alarm. You can use these settings to design custom visual and/or audible
alarms that are triggered when activity is detected on the specified Scannable Object.
NOTE: The Alert LED utilizes a special tri-color Light Emitting Diode module that mixes light
from red, green and blue LED elements to produce thousands of different colors. Eight
pre-defined color settings are available for use in object menus. LED COLOR: 0 is normally
used for "all colors off", or no Alert LED display.
NOTE: Slight variations to LED colors are a normal part of the manufacturing process. You may
notice these variations when using the White LED color setting (LED COLOR: 0), or when
comparing one ADV0801 to another. You can compensate for these slight variations by
fine-tuning the Red/Green/Blue (RGB) LED settings for each color. See the COLOR settings in
the GLOB menu in Detailed Menu Reference section at the end of this manual.
Audible Alarm and ALERT LED Settings
Each object you create has the following ALERT LED and Audible Alarm settings:
LED Mode: Solid or Flash controls whether the LED remains on solid or flashes when the object
is active.
LED Color: 0-7 sets the color of the LED. By default, color 0 is used for LED off. You can change
the LED colors in the Global Settings menu.
Latch LED keeps the LED on after activity on the object is finished. This is useful in cases
where you need to know if an object was active while you were away from the scanner.
Backlight: Off, On, Flash controls whether the backlight remains off, comes on solid or flashes
when the object is active.
Alarm: None, Chirp, Hi-Lo, Alert, Ring, 2-Chirp, Fast Hi-Lo, DTMF # are used to set audible
alarms that play each time activity is found on the object.
ALERT LED with Audible Alarm Examples
Here are some examples of when you may wish to use the ALERT LED with Audible Alarm
capability:
You have programmed a Talkgroup Wildcard in for a trunked radio system you monitor in order
to find new talkgroups. You can use an Audible Alarm to alert you when the radio receives a
wildcard hit, and turn on the backlight so that you can read the display and operate the keypad
to save or lock out the new talkgroup.
You have programmed your favorite amateur radio repeater in and wish to be alerted when a
QSO begins. You can use an Audible Alarm with one of the shorter alarms (Chirp, 2-Chirp, Fast
Hi-Lo or DTMF #) to provide this indication without covering the traffic in the QSO.
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