Smart Search - Yaesu FT-8900R Operating Manual

Smart Search

The feature may be used to load—automatically with no operator
Smart Search
intervention—a special bank of up to 25 memory channels (per band) on activity.
The function will sweep the entire band, and will load the special memory bank
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with the frequency and repeater shift data pertaining to those channels on which activity is
found if Automatic Repeater Shifts is activated (see page 25). The channels are loaded in the
order in which they are encountered, not according to signal strength or by ascending
frequency.
The feature is especially useful when visiting a city for the first time, where you
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may be unfamiliar with the repeater frequencies;
activity is to be found, and automatically loads those frequencies for you.
To activate
Smart Search
1. Set the radio to the
2. Press and hold in the
current band, loading channels on which it encounters a signal strong enough to open
the squelch.
3. When 25 channels are loaded, or when the scanner reaches the band edge, the scanner
will stop and the transceiver will revert to the starting frequency.
To recall the
Smart Search
microphone's
or
If you find a channel which you wish to store into a Regular Memory channel, follow the
procedures in
Store a Frequency in Memory

(1) The Smart Search memories are so-called soft memories; they will lost
if you exit the Smart Search mode or initiate a new Smart Search sweep.
(2) You may activate Smart Search operation on the Main band by
pressing and holding in the microphone's
(3) You may activate Smart Search operation on the left and right bands at
the same time.
Yaesu FT-8900R Operating Manual Expanded Edition (courtesy of W5JCK)
operation :
mode by pressing the
VFO
key for ½ second to cause the radio to scan upward on the
memories just stored, rotate the
keys (for the band
Main
on page 32.
discovers where the local
Smart Search
key, if necessary.
knob or press the
DIAL
memories only).
Smart Search
key.
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