14
UNDERSTANDING YOUR SCANNER
A LOOK AT THE KEYBOARD
A quick glance at this section should help you understand each key’s function(s).
VOLUME
— rotate to turn the scanner
on or off and adjust the volume.
SQUELCH
— rotate to adjust the
squelch.
AUTO
— lets you automatically pro-
gram frequencies into banks; sets the
the scanner to scan banks from the
lowest to the highest frequency.
H/S-PRIORITY
— sets and turns on
and off priority for a particular channel;
turns on and off Hypersearch.
REVIEW
— lets you review locked-out
channels or search skip memory.
TRANSFER
— transfers the contents
of a channel to an empty or desired
channel, or exchanges the contents of
two channels.
MODE
— selects the modulation mode
(AM and FM) function.
DATA
— turns on or off data skip.
ATT
— turns on or off the attenuator to
let you limit reception to strong, local
transmitters.
ALERT
— sets the scanner to the
weather alert mode.
COUNT
— sets the scanner to display
the number of times the scanner de-
tected a transmission on a channel
since you turned the scanner on.
CTCSS
— lets you use the optional
CTCSS mode if you installed a
CTCSS tone board.
WX
— starts scanning the weather fre-
quencies.
LIMIT
— starts a limit search.
CLEAR
— clears an incorrect entry.
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