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Introduction to BearTracker Operation
The BearTracker Scanning Icons
When you select a state and one or more of the agencies, each enabled service’s
icon is displayed on the lower part of the LCD (PL, DT, HP, BT). When they are
disabled, the icon disappears from the display.
When the scanner detects a signal in an enabled service, the icon blinks.
The scanner scans all the channels of the BearTracker system. Alert Channels are
also scanned along with any programmed Priority Channels.
Using the BearTracker Warning System
The BearTracker Warning System is a special part of the BearTracker System.
When you press
[HP/
B
]
, the scanner is set to alert you to transmissions of close
by services. The BT display icon begins to blink. The BearTracker LED lights, and
you hear a menu selected Alert Tone.
Most highway patrol vehicles on the road today are equipped with a secondary
radio system known as ‘mobile extender’ or ‘vehicular repeater.’ Whenever the
dispatcher transmits to any vehicle in the district, ‘mobile extender’ in every car
within the district is activated.
Every 2 seconds, the scanner checks for activity on BearTracker Warning System
frequencies for your state (see “Setting the BearTracker Options” on Page 67 for
information affecting all BearTracker Warning system options) to set how many
frequencies the scanner checks during each cycle). The BearTracker Warning
System frequencies includes frequencies used by ‘mobile extender’ radios as well
as by car-to-car, aircraf
t
-to-car, and other special-purpose frequencies. You
receive an audible (beep tone) and visual (flashing Alert light) alert whenever you
are within an approximate three-mile radius of Highway Patrol/State Police units
using a mobile extender unit.
