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or to Scan State and press to
select.
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or to required scan state and press
to select.
•
The display shows Scan On when Scan is
enabled. The LED blinks yellow and the scan
icon appears.
•
The display shows Scan Off
if Scan is
disabled. The LED turns off and the scan icon
disappears.
Responding to a Transmission During a Scan
During scanning, your radio stops on a channel/group
where activity is detected. The radio stays on that
channel for a programmed time period known as
“hang time”.
1 Hold the radio vertically 1 to 2 inches (2.5 to 5.0
cm) from your mouth.
If the Channel Free Indication feature is
enabled, you hear a short alert tone the moment
the transmitting radio releases the PTT button,
indicating the channel is free for you to respond.
2 Press the PTT button during hang time.
The LED lights up solid green
.
3 Wait for one of the following tones to finish (if
enabled), and speak clearly into the microphone.
• The Talk Permit Tone
•
The
PTT Sidetone
4 Release the PTT button to listen.
If you do not respond within the hang time, the
radio returns to scanning other channels/groups.
Deleting a Nuisance Channel
If a channel continually generates unwanted calls or
noise (termed a “nuisance” channel), you can
temporarily remove the unwanted channel from the
scan list.
This capability does not apply to the channel
designated as the Selected Channel.
1 When your radio “locks on to” an unwanted or
nuisance channel, press the programmed
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