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ATT appears if the attenuation is on for the channel (SR02) or for the band (SR36).
atg appears when global attenuation is off for all channels/searches. ATG appears when global attenuation is on for all channels/searches.

dly appears if the delay is off for the channel (SR02) or for the band (SR36).
DLY appears if the delay is on for the channel (SR02) or for the band (SR36).

lo appears if the channel is unlocked (SR02). LO appears if the channel is locked out (SR02).

zm appears if zeromatic is off for the band. ZM appears if zeromatic is on for the band.

appears if the seek function is on.

3rd Line

Channel SRCH appears while searching channels in SR02.

Channel MAN appears when searching channels in SR02.

***PAUSED*** when paused on a channel or frequency.

Group 0123 will appear while searching the Police/Fire band the cursor will blink on the current search group. A . (dot) will replace the number if
the group is turned off.

Group 012345 will appear while searching the Amateur band the cursor will blink on the current search group. A . (dot) will replace the number if
the group is turned off.

4th Line

The band name.

Fine Tune Mode in a TUNE search.

SKYWARN1, 2, or 3 appears when viewing a Skywarn channel.

Low battery! blinks when the scanner's battery is low.

In Signal Stalker Mode

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1st Line

Sig.Stalker or Sp.Stalker will appear to show which Signal Stalker mode is in use.

dly appears if the delay is off. DLY appears if the delay is on.

will appear to show the stalk direction.

2nd Line

att appears if the attenuation is off. ATT appears if the attenuation is on.
atg appears when global attenuation is off for all channels/searches. ATG appears when global attenuation is on for all channels/searches.

0000.00000 appears to the right to display the frequencies.

A will appear to the right of the frequency when receiving.

3rd Line

Group 0123 will appear while stalking Police/Fire bands and the cursor will blink on the current search group. A . (dot) will replace the number if the group is turned off.

Group 0123456789 will appear while stalking All bands and the cursor will blink on the current search group. A . (dot) will replace the number if the group is turned off.

***PAUSED*** when paused on a channel or frequency.

4th Line

The band name.

Low battery! blinks when the scanner's battery is low.

Programming Conventional Frequencies

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You can program trunking frequencies (1 trunking system per bank) and conventional frequencies into the same bank to utilize channel space better. That way, you don’t have to waste a whole
bank on a trunking system that has only 5 channels. I typically put my trunking frequencies in starting at the beginning of the banks because you probably won't have more than 25 of those, and
then fill up the banks with conventional frequencies.

Channels start at 000 for bank 0, 100 for bank 1, 200 for bank 2 etc.

If you are going to be programming text tags for the frequencies, I find it easier to program all the frequencies first, then go back and program all the text tags.
See also

Programming Trunking Systems

1. In Manual mode select the channel

by entering the bank number and channel number (Ex: 000 for the first channel) then press MAN to advance to

the channel.
You will see a M before the channel number to show manual mode.

Note: You may also change banks by pressing FUNC then

(each time) and then change channels by pressing

2. Press PGM

to put the scanner in program mode. You will see a P before the channel number to show program mode.

To Delete a frequency, press FUNC then CL.
To Delete all frequencies in the bank, press FUNC then 6.
3. Use the number keys and decimal point key to enter the frequency

you want to store. If you make a mistake press CL to delete the last digit or

press and hold CL to clear all the digits.

Press ENT

to store the frequency. The scanner will store the frequency in the default mode, AM or FM. If you

want to change the

receive mode

to AM, FM, CT (PL), or DC (DPL), press MODE to change.

Note: If you entered an invalid frequency (not in the receiver's range), Invalid Freq appears and the scanner beeps.

Note: The scanner automatically rounds (down) the entered number to the nearest valid frequency. For example, if you key in 154.5175
(MHz), your scanner displays 154.515 when you press enter.

Note: If you enter a duplicate frequency, Dupl. Freq. and the channel number of the previous frequency appear and the scanner beeps
three times. Press ENT to accept or CL to clear.

To Program the CTCSS or DCS tone,

See

Programming Tone Codes

To set the Delay for the channel,

press DELAY to toggle the delay feature on or off.

To set the Attenuation for the channel,

press ATT to toggle the attenuator on or off.

To Program Text for the Bank,

see

Text Tagging a Bank

To Program Text for the Channel,

see

Text Tagging a Channel

4. Press PGM

which advances to the next channel. The receive mode changes to the default mode (FM) while programming the channel but will

store the correct mode after you hit enter to store it. Program the remaining channels the same way (step 3).

5. To Program any other channel,

return to step 1.

To exit programming,

press MAN.

Programming Tone Codes

You can set the receive mode of a (conventional) channel to receive any

CTCSS or DCS

tone code (if one is transmitted). You can also program a

tone code for a channel (frequency) so the scanner will only stop on that channel if the programmed code is received with the frequency (regardless
of open or closed modes).

Mode Frequency Range

Step

(kHz)

2528

2854

108136.99166

8.33

137138

138144

12.5

144148

148150.775