Setting Up Car Radio-Like Buttons On The Ar1000; Setting Up Radio Buttons In Search Mode; Setting Up Radio Buttons In Scan Mode - AOR AR1000 Manual

Car-Like Radio Buttons

Setting up car radio-like buttons on the AR1000

Because the AR1000 has so many features, and due to it's somewhat cumbersome
programming scheme, it usually takes four or five key presses to get to a channel
or mode that you want. There is an interesting way you can set up a series of car
radio-like buttons on the AR1000. Then with one button press you can get to a
specific channel. This method is particularly useful for stations that have continu-
ous transmissions, like AM and FM broadcast stations and shortwave stations.
Since the AR1000 will pick up normal radio broadcasts, it is useful to put your
favorites into these radio button channels.
You can set up 10 radio buttons in Search mode and 10 different radio buttons
in Scan mode. The techniques are different, but you use the same method to
select them in either mode.

Setting up radio buttons in Search mode

The technique for Search mode is simply to plug in the frequency you are inter-
ested in as both the lower and upper frequency for a search bank. Set up the
search bank with this frequency as lower and upper limit. You can put in any
value as the search increment, since it won't be used. Assign these parameters to
any available search bank.
Here's how you would use it. Let's say you have set search banks 6, 7, 8, and 9 as
your radio stations. To use them, first limit the search banks to 6 through 9
(although this is not necessary, it helps to simplify things). Press SEARCH,
BANK, PROG, 6, LIMIT, 9, ENT.
Now all you need to do to select any radio channel while in search mode is press
the corresponding button on the keyboard. If you press 6 you will go directly to
the frequency in Search bank 6. If you press 9 you will go to the frequency in
Search bank 9. You can press these buttons in any random order. Be sure that the
search banks are not locked. If you have an AM radio station in a search bank but
are not using the proper antenna, the scanner will not be able to lock on to a
signal and will jump to the next search bank.
You can set up a radio button for each search bank if you want, giving you 10
radio buttons in search mode.

Setting up radio buttons in Scan mode

You can set up 10 additional buttons in Scan mode. The way to do this is to use
the first channel in a bank for the radio frequency. That is, use channel 000, 100,
200, 300, etc., to hold the frequency you want for your radio buttons. You will
probably also want to lock these channels so they don't appear when you scan the
rest of the channels in the bank.
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