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ADV0801 Owner's Manual Draft
Exclusive ALERT LED - Programmable tri-color LED can be configured to illuminate or flash
when certain objects are active. Eight user-defined colors and brightness levels can be specified
from thousands of possible combinations. Provides visual alerts when certain channels are
active, e.g., blue can be used to signal activity on your primary police channel, red for fire, etc.
Audible alarms - Programmable audible alarms can be configured to sound when certain
Scannable Objects are active. Can be used in conjunction with, or separately from, the ALERT
LED described above.
High Speed PC Interface - uses Cat. No. 20-047 USB cable in full duplex mode at 6 times the
speed of previous scanner models for PC transfer and 8 times the speed of previous models for
radio to radio cloning.
Real-time Signal Strength Indicator – shows relative strength of received signals.
Sleek, compact case design with large speaker is designed for one-handed operation and ease of
use.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: The ADV0801 Advanced Digital Scanner will not receive encrypted
radio communications, or radio transmissions that utilize ProVoice digital modulation.
What is Object Oriented Scanning?
To put it simply, Object Oriented Scanning describes a new user interface design for scanning
receivers (the Object Oriented User Interface, or OOUI). In Object Oriented Scanning, we
introduce the concept of the Scannable Object. A Scannable Object is defined as "something that
can be scanned".
The Scannable Object concept is very important in the OOUI design. Recall that one of the more
frustrating things about current trunking scanners is that entirely different methods of
programming and interacting with the radio are used depending on whether the user is working
with trunking talkgroups or conventional channels. A method that works with one does not
work well with the other. The user must learn two entirely different "languages" for "talking to"
the radio – one for trunking and one for conventional, non-trunked frequencies.
What if it was possible to use the same basic "language" regardless of whether a user is working
with trunked talkgroups or conventional channels, such that once a user has learned how to
enter a conventional channel into memory, they already know most of what they need to know
to enter a trunked talkgroup? Or, a search range, or other "Scannable Objects"? This is how the
OOUI works – the two primary Scannable Objects, talkgroups on trunked radio systems and
conventional non-trunked frequencies use the same user interface elements.
Additionally, we include limit and service search configurations and Signal Stalker II
configurations as Scannable Objects. This means that it is possible to create, edit, group, scan
and delete service and limit searches, and Stalker configurations using the same methods that
are used when working with trunked talkgroups and conventional channels.
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