Selecting A Scan Channel - AOR AR1000 Manual

AR1000 Operations
To select an
individual scan
channel
department frequencies in one scan bank, you may only fill up six or eight
channels. What do you do with the other 92 channels that are left over?
There are some ways to optimize the usage of this memory structure, although
the real answer is that it is simply an inefficient layout and we, the users, have to
work around it. We'll address this issue again in the Applications section.
The AR1000 uses a somewhat confusing idea of banks and channels. It has ten
banks with 100 channels per bank. You select an individual channel by pressing a
bank number (0-9) and then a two-digit channel number (00-99). However, you
only need to be concerned about "banks" when you want to deal with the chan-
nels as a group . When choosing an individual channel number, you don't really
have to be concerned with the idea of banks at all. A simpler way to think about
it is that you simply select a three-digit channel number (000-999). Unfortu-
nately, the button you use to select a channel is called the BANK button. Oh,
well. Welcome to the first of many idiosyncrasies with the AR1000.

Selecting a scan channel

There are several ways to select and move from channel to channel. The most
direct method is to enter the channel number from the keyboard. You use the
BANK key to do this.
• Press MANUAL if not in Manual mode.
• Press BANK.
Bank flashes in the display.
• Enter a three-digit channel number.
When you enter the third digit, the channel is selected and its frequency is displayed. You must
always enter three digits. So, to select channel 47, you must enter 047.
Example:
BANK 1 6 8
This selects channel 168 and shows you its frequency and mode.
You can also step sequentially forward from the current scan channel by pressing
the MANUAL key. Each time you press it, you advance one channel, as long as
that channel has a frequency in it (even if the channel is locked). If the channel is
cleared, you will skip over that channel and any other cleared channels until you
arrive at the next channel that contains a frequency. See
mation about cleared channels.
When you reach the end of one bank, the scanner moves to the first channel of
the next bank. For example, when you are at channel 099 (the last channel in
bank 0) and press MANUAL, you will go to channel 100 (the first channel in
bank 1). This continues through all ten scan banks. When you reach channel
999, you will start over with channel 000.
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