Pro-2032 Desk-Top Programmable Scanner
(200-0409)                 Understanding Scanners     Faxback Doc. # 63744

A Look at the Display

The display has several indicators that show the scanner's current 
operating mode.  A quick look at the display will help you understand how 
to operate your scanner.

Displayed Messages:

      MANUAL - comes on when the scanner is in the manual channel
               selection mode.

     MONITOR - appears when you listen to a monitor memory.

Numbers 1-10 - represent the ten memory banks and the ten monitor
               memories.

       DELAY - appears when the scanner is set to a channel programmed
               With the delay feature.  See "Delay."

        BANK - appears with bars to the right to show which channel
               Storage banks are turned on for the scan mode.  See
               "Understanding Channel-Storage Banks."

        SCAN - appears when you scan channels.

      SEARCH - appears during a limit search (when -L- also appears) or a
               direct frequency search (when -d- also appears).

     PROGRAM - appears while you program frequencies into the scanner's
               channels.

    PRIORITY - appears when you turn on the priority channel feature.

           P - appears when you listen to the priority channel.

          Ch - digits that precede this indicator show which of the 200
               channels the scanner is tuned to.

         MHz - digits that precede this indicator show which of the 31,000
               possible frequencies the scanner is tuned to.

    LOCK-OUT - appears when you manually select a locked-out channel.

A Look at the Keyboard

Your scanner's keys might seem confusing at first, bur a quick glance at 
this list should help you understand each key's function.

       SCAN - scans through the programmed channels.

     MANUAL - stops scanning and lets you directly enter a channel number.

   LOCK OUT - lets you lock out a selected channel.

      DELAY - programs a two second delay for the selected channel.

      LIMIT - used during frequency searches.  See "Searching For and
              Temporarily Storing Active Frequencies."

         /\ - searches up from the currently displayed frequency.

         \/ - searches down from the currently displayed frequency.

    MONITOR - accesses the 10 monitor memories.  See "Moving a Frequency
              from a Monitor Memory to a Channel."

      SPEED - changes the scanning or search speed from low to high or
              high to low.

   PRIORITY - sets and turns on and off priority for a particular channel.

      CLEAR - clears an incorrect entry.

    PROGRAM - programs frequencies into channels.

Number Keys - each key has a single-digit label and a range of numbers.
              The single digit is the number entered when you enter a
              channel number or a frequency.  The range of numbers (21 to
              40, for example) indicates the channels that make up a
              channel storage bank.  See "Understanding Channel Storage
              Banks."

      ENTER - enters program frequencies into channels.

You can store up to 210 frequencies into your scanner's memory.  You store 
each frequency into either a permanent memory, called a channel, or a 
temporary memory, called a monitor memory.  There are 200 channel memories 
and 10 monitor memories.

Channel-Storage Banks

To make it easier to identify and select the channels you want to listen 
to, channels are divided into 10 channel-storage banks or 20 channels 
each.  Use each channel-storage bank to group frequencies, such as the 
police department, fire department, ambulance services, or aircraft (see 
"A Guide to the Action Bands" in Faxback Doc. # 17653).

For example, the police department might use four frequencies, one for 
each side of town.  You could program the police frequencies starting with 
Channel 1 (Bank 1) and program the fire department starting with Channel 
21 (Bank 2).  When you want to listen to only police calls, you can turn 
off the other banks.

Monitor Memories

The scanner also has 10 monitor memories.  You can use these memories to 
temporarily store frequencies while you decide whether or not to save them 
in channels.  This is handy for quickly storing an active frequency when 
you search through an entire band.  You can manually select these 
memories, but you cannot scan them.  See "Searching for and Temporarily 
Storing Active Frequencies" in Faxback Doc. # 63745.

When you are in the monitor mode, the 10 numbers at the top of the display 
indicate the 10 monitor memories.  MONITOR appears on the display when you 
are using monitor memories and the bar indicates the currently active 
monitor memory.
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