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SR3 to SR5 banks contain several groups. To turn off a group,
press the group number; the group number disappears. To turn
the group back on, press the group number again.
2.
Adjust the Squelch. After the set delay, the scanner starts searching.
When the scanner finds an active frequency, it stops searching.
3.
To pause while searching, press
PAUSE.
The scanner stops searching
and
*** PAUSED ***
appears. To resume, press
PAUSE
again.
4.
If the scanner stops on an unwanted frequency, you can press
L/OUT
to lock out the frequency.
In the SR6 Railraod and SR7 Limit Search bands, press
FUNC
then
S
or
T
to start searching up from the lowest or down
from the highest frequency.
To search banks SR0-SR2:
1.
Press
SRCH
repeatedly to select SR0, SR1, or SR2.
2.
To search the entire band, press
FUNC
then
SRCH.
“MAN”
(Manual select) or
“SRCH”
(searches through the band) appears.
The scanner starts searching and
“SRCH”
appears on the display.
When the scanner finds an active frequency, it stops searching.
Press
FUNC
then
SRCH
again to return to the previous mode.
3.
To select a channel while
“MAN”
appears on the display, press a
channel number or use
S
or
T
.
4.
Adjust the Squelch.
5.
If the scanner stops on an unwanted frequency, you can press
L/OUT
to lock out the frequency. For more information, see
Locking Out Frequencies
on Page 25.
6.
To pause while searching, press
PAUSE
. The scanner stops
searching and
*** PAUSED ***
appears. To resume, press
PAUSE
again.
Zeromatic
While searching, the scanner stops if a transmission triggers the
squelch setting. A narrow-band FM transmission can have a
deviation of +/- 5 KHz, and the actual total bandwidth, including
the tails of the sidebands, can be even greater. However, search
intervals smaller than that can stop your scanner short of the correct
(center) frequency.
The Zeromatic function allows the scanner to find the correct center
frequency for search banks SR3, SR4, SR5, SR6 and SR7. Zeromatic
automatically tunes the step-increment frequency closest to the
center frequency.
To activate Zeromatic:
1.
Press
FUNC
then
0.
“Zeromatic ON.”
appears briefly, then
“ZM”
appears.
2.
To turn Zeromatic off, press
FUNC
then
0
again.
“ZM”
changes
to
“zm.”
Programming a Search Range
To program the search range of Bank SR7:
1.
Repeatedly press
SRCH
to select SR7.
2.
Press
PROG
then
SRCH.
“Enter SR7 Search Range
Limits”
appears.
L
blinks for the lower-limit of the range.
3.
Use the number keys to enter the lower-limit frequency
(including the decimal point).
4.
Press
ENT.
U
blinks for the upper-limit of the range.
5.
Use the number keys to enter the upper-limit frequency
(including the decimal point), then press
ENT.