Scanning Stored Channels; Searching; Limit Search; Selecting Channels Manually - RCA RP-6198 User Manual

U
SING THE
S S
CANNING TORED
To scan through all the stored,
unlocked channels, press SCAN. To
change scanning direction, press the
or button.
Adjust the SQUELCH knob to resume
scan if the scanner stays on a frequency
after the transmission has ended.
Car numbers and their corresponding
frequencies appear in the display in
ascending order, starting from the
lowest car number entered.
When multiple frequencies have been
assigned to one car number, the
scanner will display the lowest
frequency first.
S
EARCHING
Press and hold
second to start a limit or band search.
Press them momentary to the next
frequency.
Press MEM during a Limit or Band
search to store a frequency in a
monitor memory.
L S
IMIT EARCH
In a Limit Search, you choose the
range within which the scanner will
find frequencies.
• Press the PROG button and then the
LIMIT button.
• Key in the lowest frequency in the
search range and press the ENTER
button.
• Press the LIMIT button.
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S
CANNER
C
HANNELS
or for about a
• Key in the highest frequency in the
search range and then press the
ENTER button.
• Choose the direction you want to
search in ( or
appropriate button. -L- and SRCH
will appear in the display.
When the scanner has
exhausted the search range, it
will begin again.
S
ELECTING CHANNELS MANU
ALLY
It is possible to constantly monitor
one frequency for an unspecified
amount of time without scanning.
For example, you might stumble onto
an exciting exchange between police
officers in a foot pursuit. Because
there will be periods of silence
between the officers' transmissions to
one another, you will have to
manually select this frequency or risk
the scanner taking an inopportune
moment of silence to start scanning
for more active frequencies.
• If the scanner is scanning and lands
on the frequency you want to
monitor, quickly press the MAN
button.
) and press the
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