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ADV0801 Owner's Manual Draft
When your local NWS office activates a SAME warning that matches a FIPS code stored in your
scanner, you will first hear a siren alarm and see the LED flash to alert you to the incoming
alarm. The LED flashes RED for warnings, YELLOW for watches, and BLUE for tests and
administrative messages.
The scanner sounds the siren until the NWS transmission of the 1050 Hz Warning Alert Tone
(WAT) begins. Once the WAT begins, the scanner's speaker will unmute, and you will hear the
WAT play as an alert that the voice portion of the SAME warning is about to begin. You will
then hear the voice portion of the SAME warning.
Your scanner will resume SAME Standby operation 90 seconds after the SAME warning starts.
You may reset standby mode by pressing the STBY softkey twice at any time.
Using V-Scanner Storage
Your ADV0801 features two types of memory storage. Main memory is used to store your
programming that is used for everyday monitoring and scanning. V-Scanner memory is used to
store complete copies of your scanner's main memory for later recall, including objects, global
settings and dedicated search configurations. We call this feature V-Scanner, for "Virtual
Scanner". Your ADV0801 features 21 V-Scanner storage locations, each capable of storing a copy
of your scanner's main memory, including all of your objects and global radio-wide settings.
Having 21 Virtual Scanners is like having 21 scanners in one. You can custom tailor a main
memory configuration to suit your needs for the type of scanning you do in different situations,
then store that configuration for later use. If you travel frequently, you may want to create
V-Scanners for the areas where you travel.
V-Scanners are also useful for backing up your configurations. Once you have main memory
configured the way you like it, you can save it to a V-Scanner where it will remain untouched
until you delete, overwrite or recall it. Then, if you happen to make a mistake while using your
main memory that you cannot fix, you can recall the backup data and start again.
NOTE: V-Scanner storage is not unlike working with a hard drive on a personal computer. You
save active scanner configurations (called "working" or "main" memory) to a V-Scanner storage
folder for later use, and you recall stored scanner configurations from a V-Scanner storage folder
to main memory when you want to use them. If you recall a configuration from a V-Scanner
storage folder and use it in main memory, any changes you make while using the configuration
will not automatically be transferred to the configuration data stored in the V-Scanner storage
folder. You must save your changes back to that folder location if you want to preserve them for
later use. When you load a new configuration into main memory, the contents of main memory
are overwritten and lost, unless you save your main memory to a V-Scanner storage folder first.
Once the configuration data in main memory has been overwritten, it cannot be recovered -
there is no "Undo" function.
V-Scanners provide a capability that is similar to having a computer with scanner programming
software available all of the time. Instead of connecting the computer and transferring
configuration files to and from main memory, you use V-Scanners to save or load main memory
configurations in the field. Each V-Scanner storage location is called a V-Scanner folder. To
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