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SCAN OPERATION
New2001
New2001
Scan starts.
When a signal is received.
Push
[SCAN]
[Example]:
Starting a Normal scan.
■
Setting Favorite channels
For more efficient scanning, add desired channels as Favor-
ite channels, or clear the Favorite on unwanted channels.
Channels that are not tagged as Favorites will be skipped
while scanning. Favorite channels can be independently as-
signed to each channel group (INT, USA, CAN or ATIS).
q
Select the desired channel group. (p. 10)
w
Select the desired channel to be set as a Favorite channel.
e
Push [
] to set the displayed channel as a Favorite channel.
• The “
” icon appears on the display.
r
To cancel the Favorite channel setting, repeat step
e
.
• The “
” icon disappears.
✓
Clearing (or setting) all Favorite channels
Hold down [
] for 3 seconds (until a long beep changes to
2 short beeps) to clear all Favorite channel settings in the
selected channel group.
• Repeat above procedure to set all channels as Favorite channels.
■
Starting a scan
First, set the scan type (Priority or Normal scan) and scan
resume timer in the Menu screen. (p. 90)
q
Select the desired channel group. (p. 10)
w
Set the Favorite channels, as described to the left.
e
Make sure the squelch is closed to start a scan.
r
Push [SCAN] to start a Priority or Normal scan.
• “ SCAN 16” appears during a Priority scan; “SCAN” appears dur-
ing a Normal scan.
• When a signal is detected, the scan pauses until the signal dis-
appears, or resumes after pausing 5 seconds, depending on the
setting. (Channel 16 is still monitored during a Priority scan.)
• Push [
Y
]/[
Z
] on either transceiver or microphone, to check the
scanning Favorite channels, change the scanning direction or
manually resume the scan.
• A beep tone sounds and “16” blinks when a signal is received on
Channel 16 during a Priority scan.
t
To stop the scan, push [CLEAR] or repeat step
r
.
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