TURNING BANKS ON AND OFF
As
explained
in
"Understanding Channel Storage Banks
and Search Banks" your scanner splits the
400
channels
into ten banks of forty channels each. The small bars under
the numbers at the top of the display
are
the bank in-
dicators. You can turn each bank on and
off,
so that
all
the
channels
in
a bank are either scanned or locked out.
In
scan mode, press the number key for the bank you want to
turn on or off. If the bank indicator
is
on,
you have turned
on the bank and the scanner scans
all
the channels within
that bank that you have not locked out. If the indicator
is
off, the scanner does not scan any of the channels within
that bank. You can' still manually select any channel
in
a
bank, even if you have turned off the bank. You cannot turn
off
all
banks - one must
be
turned
on.
USING THE PRIORITY FEATURE
You can scan through
all
your programmed channels, and
still not miss
an
important or interesting
call
on a specific
channel. Simply program your desired channel as the
priority channel, and turn on the priority feature by press-
ing
[PRI] during scanning.
The
scanner now checks the
priority channel every two seconds, and stays on the chan-
nel
if
there is activity.
To program a priority channel, simply press [PROGRAM),
and the desired channel number.
Then,
press
[PRI)
.
"P"
ap-
pears
in
the display whenever the scanner
is
set
to
the
priority channel.
You
can
only program one channel
as
the
priority channel. If you program a new channel
as
the
priority channel, the previous channel you chose
is
automatically cleared.
Note: Channel 1
is
automatically designated as the priority
channel the first time you turn
on
your scanner.
MANUALLY SELECTING A CHANNEL
You can continuously monitor a single channel without
scanning. This
is
useful
if
you hear
an
emergency broad-
cast on a channel and
do
not want
to
miss any of the
details - even though there might
be
periods of silence - or
if
you want to monitor a channel that you have locked out.
To select a channel to monitor, just press [MANUAL), and
enter the channel number.
Then,
press [MANUAL] again.
Or,
if your scanner
is
scanning and
has
stopped
at
the
desired channel, just press [MANUAL] once. Pressing
[MANUAL] additional times causes your scanner to step
through the channels one at a time.
DIMMER
Press [DIMMER] to turn the display's backlight down or
up.
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