User Manual

Setting Bandplan and Clock

When you first power up your scanner it will prompt you

to set the bandplan, date and time.

Press the  or  key to select the USA or Canada

bandplan, then press /II/SEL.

The scanner will then prompt you to enter the current

date and time. Press the  or  key to select the

desired digit, then press the  key. Press the  or 

key to change the value, then press /II/SEL. You can

skip this process by pressing the SKIP key. You can set

the clock at any time using the PC application.

Program Methods

There are two methods to program your scanner.

To get started quickly, you can use “Set Location”.

The set location method stores objects in your area

automatically and puts them in Scanlists 151 and higher.

These Scanlists are already named, “Multi Dispatch”,

“Law Tac”, “Interop”, “Fire Talk”, and so forth. This

method gets you scanning in minutes, but you cannot

monitor a single police or a single fire department –

they will all be together in the same Scanlist. Also, if you

use set location, and wish to add a new location, be sure

to “Clear Channels” to erase old objects before storing

the new location. If you store more than one ZIP code,

the scanner will spend a great deal of time searching for

objects that are out of range. That will cause the scanner

to miss some local transmissions you want to hear.

Although it takes longer, experienced users will want to

program Scanlists on their own using the "Preferred"

method. Use “Browse Library” to select your state

and county and look for agencies of interest. Check the

boxes of objects you wish to import, select the Scanlist

you want to put them in and perform the import (see

Preferred Programming). Once you save objects to a

Scanlist, rename the Scanlist so you don’t forget what

you stored there. Then import more objects into a

different Scanlist and rename that one. In this way, you

can create Scanlists such as Bethel Police, Hurst Police,

Bethel Fire, Shenango EMS, etc. Individual scanlists

allow you to decide exactly what you want to scan.