If you remember programming in a specific channel but can’t remember where you left it, you can search
the radio for it. Using the
FIND
feature is pretty easy. Press the Program key, then the Edit soft key and
lastly the Find soft key. Select how you want to search, such as by locked out status or the text tag. Select
the method you want. If finding Locked Out channels then you can scroll thru them and unlock any of them
you wish.
There are many different features that you may or may not be interested in. Some of them include:
Object Lockout:
Locks out a channel or the like no matter what scan list it is a member of. If you have a
frequency in more than one Scan List, and lock it out of one, it still can be heard of you are scanning
another List it resides in. This allows you to lock it out entirely, even if it is in multiple Scan Lists.
Temporary Lockout.
This feature works differently than Uniden’s. On the GRE there is a menu setting in
the Global menu that allows you to select Temporary or Permanent Lockouts. If you choose Temporary
then the radio will remove the Lockout when you turn off the radio. If you set it to Permanent then the
channel will stay locked out until you unlock it specifically. You can still set a channel to a permanent
Lockout by pressing the Func key then Lockout.
To unlock a channel just press Manual and scroll to or use the Find feature to get to the Object and press
the Lockout key to unlock it.
Search & Talkgroup Lockouts:
During Search or when scanning a trunked system events one of the Soft
Keys will display L/Out and you can use this button to lock out a frequency or talkgroup.
Tune Mode:
If you want to go to a specific frequency quickly, press the Tune key on the keypad then enter
in the frequency you want to monitor. From there you can search up or down and let the radio stop on
received signals. You can store hits to a memory slot, it then becomes a Scannable Object.
When, if in Tune Mode, you come across a trunked channel the radio will display information about that
channel. For example on Motorola and P25 systems the System ID and Site number will be displayed.
This functionality of quickly “pumping in” a frequency into a scanner and listening to it, and to nearby
channels, is a great tactical scanning feature that is lacking on the Uniden scanners.
Weather Alert:
The PSR600 can be used as a Weather Radio Receiver. The most simple method is to press
the WX button and find an active NOAA weather station in your area. You can then enter SAME Codes to
have the radio open on weather or emergency messages for your county. If you do not enter a SAME code
then the radio will display any SAME messages it decodes. Press the “stby” soft key to enter the SAME
Standby Mode, the Soft key switches to upper case (STBY) when in that mode. Press the SAME soft key
and you can enter SAME codes for your area. You can get these codes from the National Weather Service
website.
If you want to use the older 1050 Hz. alert tone activation method (now called the All Hazards Alert) press
the WX button, go to an active weather channel for your area and press the Priority button. The radio will
then activate when it detects the proper code.
Favorite
: The GRE “Favorite” feature allows you to tag an Object as a “Favorite” by pressing the FAV
button. This is essentially a special scan list that allows you instant access to that group of channels. You
can tag any type of object, trunked or conventional, sweeper, search etc. When scanning just press the FAV
button and any of those tagged channels are now active, regardless of whether they are in other scan lists.
Cloning
You can clone your radio to another PSR500, PSR600, PRO106 or PRO197 with a simple cable. This cable
is the same one used to connect iPods to car stereos and other uses, a 3 conductor “Mini” cable. Connect
the cables to both radio’s PC-IF jacks, turn them on and enter the proper keystrokes on the Master (Source)
radio and Slave (Target) radio. The information from the Master radio will be programmed into the Slave
