Understanding Location Control - Uniden UBCD436-PT Owner's Manual

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See also Using Startup Keys, page 48.
Scroll to each key (0-9) and press E/yes to enable then press Menu to save.
Use Location Control – This enables Location Control for the Favorites List. The default setting
is Off. See also Understanding Location Control, page 35.
Review Avoids – This allows you to review all Avoids for the Favorites List. Temporary Avoids
appear reversed in the display -
Scroll to each Avoided channel, Department, or System, and press E/yes to Stop Avoiding.
Stop All Avoiding – This will Stop Avoiding all Channels, Departments, and Systems in the
Favorites List.
At Confirm Delete? Press E/yes or ./no.
Add Current dB Channels – This allows you to add all channels you are currently scanning to
the Favorites List.
At Confirm? Press E/yes or ./no.
Note 1: Any Avoided Channel will not be added.
Note 2: When adding channels from the Full Database, only channels that are inside
the set range, and from the selected Service Types are added.
Note 3: When adding channels from a Favorites List that has 'Use Location Control' is
set to Yes, only channels that are inside the set range, and from the selected service
types are added.
Note 4: When adding channels from a Favorites List that has Use Location Control is
set to No, only channels that are from the selected service types are added.
Rename – This allows to you rename the Favorites List.
See Data Naming, page 25.
Delete – This will delete the Favorites List.
At Confirm Delete? Press E/yes or ./no.
Information – This will show you the file size and number of Systems in the list.

UNdERSTANdING LOCATION CONTROL

Location Control allows you to enable or disable channels scanned in a Favorites List based
on your location. Actually, it enables/disables Sites and Departments in Favorites Lists (as long
as they have locations programmed) based on your current location and scan range settings.
Location Control is always enabled when scanning from the Full Database.
To use Location Control, you have to enable it for each Favorites List (default is OFF). You also
need to have locations programmed for Sites and Departments in each list (you can't program a
location for a system).
With Location Control set to ON, the scanner only sees Departments/Sites with programmed
locations. Any Department/Site with no location information programmed will not be scanned.
you append (add) a System/Department to a list from the database, the locations will be brought
in with each System/Department you append.
With Location Control set to OFF, the scanner will enable all Sites and Departments in your
Favorites List no matter what the scan range or Site/Department range is set to.
You don't need a GPS to scan by location if all of the following apply:
1.
You have Location Control set to ON for each Favorites List you want to use with Location
Control.
. See Scanning, page 50.
If
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