User's Manual

3-6 Viking™ VP600 Portable Radio Operating Manual
General Operation
For direct selection purposes, channels are numbered sequentially starting with the lowest
zone. Each zone can be programmed with up to 255 channels with up to 2048 channels
total.
Note The total number of supported channels depends on the number optioned for the radio.
Proceed as follows to select channels using this mode:
1 Enable the direct Channel Select mode by pressing the Channel Select option or
selecting the “Chan Selct” menu parameter. The alias and sequential number of the
current channel are alternately displayed.
2 Select the desired channel using the Up/Down buttons or directly enter it using the 0-9
keys (if available). If using the 0-9 keys, the radio attempts to display the entered
number after the third digit is entered or approximately two seconds after the last key is
pressed.
3 To exit this mode and select the entered channel, press the Channel Select switch again
or the (Menu) button. To exit without changing the channel, press the (Clear)
button. This mode is also exited automatically without changing the channel after
approximately one minute of no activity.
Other features of this mode are as follows:
• When using the Up/Down buttons, wrap-around to the lowest zone/channel occurs after
the last channel in the highest programmed zone is displayed and vice versa. For
example, if Zone 1/Channel 5 is the highest programmed channel, wrap-around occurs
after Zone 1/Channel 5 is displayed.
Seq. Ch. No. Zone Channel
111
255 255
256 2 256
510 510
511 3 511
765 765
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2048
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2048*