User's Manual

20-496 Owner’s Manual Draft Page 10/78
A V-Scanner folder contains a complete, stored configuration profile of your scanner’s programming.
Certain current scanner models allow the user to load, save and edit different scanner configurations using
an interface cable, software and a personal computer. The PRO-2096 V-Scanner feature extends this
functionality by allowing you to store or recall up to eleven scanner configurations in V-Scanner folders on
your scanner, without using a personal computer. You can use the V-Scanner feature to build and store
configurations for different areas or different scanner applications. Using the cloning feature it is possible to
exchange scanner configurations with your friends without losing your existing data. V-Scanners also
provide a way for you to easily back up your programmed data without connecting your scanner to a
personal computer.
Each V-Scanner folder stores all channel storage banks, channels, trunking Ids, search settings, and other
parameters associated with the operation of the scanner.
CHANNEL STORAGE BANKS
A channel storage bank is a storage area for a group of channels. Channels are storage locations for
frequencies. Whereas a channel can only contain one frequency, a channel storage bank can hold 50
channels.
To make it easier to identify and select the channels you want to listen to, your scanner divides the
channels into 10 banks (0 to 9) of 50 (00 to 49) channels each, a total of 500 channels. You can use each
channel-storage bank to group frequencies, such as those used by different public safety agencies and
jurisdictions in your area. Channel storage banks can be easily enabled or disabled while scanning by
pressing the number key that corresponds with the desired channel storage bank.
For example, a particular city might use four frequencies for police communications, and four frequencies
for fire communications. You could program the police frequencies starting with 000 (the first channel in
bank 0) and program the fire department frequencies starting with 100 (the first channel in bank 1). This
gives you the ability to quickly select what you wish to monitor by activating or deactivating the appropriate
channel storage bank. When looking at channel numbers, the first digit identifies the bank (0 to 9). The
second and third digits identify the channel within the bank (00 to 49).
CHANNELS
Channels are storage locations for the actual frequencies you wish to monitor. Each channel can be
configured with a radio frequency, the desired mode for that frequency, and settings to allow a short delay
after a transmission or lock the channel out from scanning operation. A channel can contain a conventional,
non-trunked frequency, or a frequency used in a trunking system.
SEARCH BANKS
Your scanner has six preprogrammed search banks configured to search various radio services, and one
limit search bank that you can configure. You can set the lower and higher frequency limit in the limit search