Set Range; Select Favorites Lists To Monitor - Uniden HomePatrol - II Owner's Manual

Change Location
There are five ways to change your location from the Menu screen:
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Enter Zip Code. Tap Enter Zip Code and follow the prompts to enter a different zip code.
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Enter City. Tap Enter City and follow the prompts to specify a city to use as your location.
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AutoLocate. HomePatrol‐II searches frequency bands for a known radio system. When it finds
one, you have the option of accepting that location or retrying for another one.
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Manual Location Input. If you know your exact coordinates, enter them here.
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Set Up GPS. Tapping this selection displays the Set Up GPS screen, where you can see the status
of a connected GPS receiver or change GPS input settings.
Select Service Types
Service types are categories of transmissions that have similar content. Service type examples include
(but are not limited to) Aircraft, Emergency Ops, Fire‐Talk, and Law Dispatch. Select service types
through the Select Service Types menu on the Menu screen. Appendix C provides a list of service types
and their definitions. By default, only public safety (Law, Fire, EMS, and Multi) dispatch channels and
Custom 1 are selected.
How to Select Service Types
1. Tap the following:
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Menu
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Select Service Types
2. The Select Service Types menu displays. Scroll through the entries, tapping UP or DOWN arrows
to change pages. Tap on the service types you want to listen to. That entry turns orange. Tap it
again to deslect it.
3. When you have tapped on the service types you want, tap Accept.
4. HomePatrol‐II selects channels based on your service type requirements and then begins
monitoring them.
Set Range
Range lets you set how far out from your set location HomePatrol‐II will search for channels to select.
Tapping Range from the Radio Control bar or selecting Set Range from the Set Your Location menu
displays an indicator bar. Each of the 15 bars equals 2 miles for a total of a 30 mile range.
Tap + or – (or press and release the volume key) to increase or decrease the range in .5 mile increments
or tap and hold + or – (or press hold the volume key) to increase or decrease the range in 1 mile
increments.
Select Favorites Lists to Monitor
Selecting one or more Favorites Lists to monitor tells HomePatrol‐II that you want to listen to the
transmissions that have been saved to that list. You can use Favorites Lists and the full database at the
same time, or select a combination of Favorites lists to monitor. Select the Favorites List you want to
monitor through the Main Menu/Manage Favorites Lists screens. (Refer to BUILDING FAVORITES LISTS
later in this manual for detailed information.)
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