FT-2600M O
PERATING
M
ANUAL
40
P
RIORITY
C
HANNEL
M
ONITORING
The Priority function allows automatic checking for activity on Memory Channel 001 ev-
ery five seconds while operating on the VFO or a different memory. When the receiver
detects a signal on the “Priority” memory, operation automatically shifts to that channel
while the signal is present (plus a few seconds). If you transmit while “paused” on the
Priority channel, priority monitoring will cease, and the transceiver will “hold” indefi-
nitely on the Priority channel. Only Channel 001 is available as the “Priority” channel.
To set up for priority monitoring:
(1) Preset the
SQL
control to silence the background noise on a clear channel, then store
the frequency to be the “Priority” channel into Memory Channel 001.
(2) Press the [
D/MR
] key to operate in the VFO mode. If you are in the memory mode,
select the memory on which you wish to operate (other than the Priority channel).
(3) Press and hold in the [
A/N
] key for one second to initiate priority monitoring. The
“
PRI
” (“
Pri
ority Channel”) notation will appear at the top of the display.
During priority monitoring, the displayed frequency will shift to the priority memory briefly
about every five seconds, while the receiver checks for the presence of a signal.
While no signal appears on the Priority memory (causing the squelch to open), you can
tune, transmit and receive on the VFO, or select and operate on other memories; however,
you cannot scan (except manually, one step at a time, using the microphone’s [
UP
] and
[
DWN
] buttons), as the scanning logic circuits are already dedicated to the priority scan-
ning activities.
If a station you wish to talk with appears on the Priority memory, press the
PTT
switch
momentarily while receiving their signal (no transmission will occur) to
halt
priority scan-
ning. At this point, the FT-2600M will be shifted to the
MR
mode on Channel 001, and the
previous operating status (
VFO
,
MR
, or
H
OME
) will be ignored.
Otherwise, if you elect not to call the station appearing on the Priority channel, priority
monitoring will pause and the decimal on the display will blink. Priority monitoring will
resume based on the setting of the regular scanning-resume mode – either after a 5-second
pause, or after the carrier drops out.
To
cancel
priority monitoring, press the [
D/MR
] key momentarily.
The priority function is not disabled by switching the transceiver off. If you were engaged
in priority monitoring at the moment you turned the radio off, it will
assume
that you will
want to continue priority monitoring during your next operating session, and will come up
still in the priority mode when the transceiver is switched back
on
.
Scanning
