User's Manual

20-466 Owner’s Manual
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3. Enter the frequency you want to enter into the priority channel, then press ENTER.
Note: This scanner cannot set a channel as the priority channel if the channel’s receive mode is MO or ED.
Follow those steps to program a weather channel as the priority channel.
1. Press WX.
2. Select the weather channel you want to program as the priority channel.
3. Press FUNC then PRI. Pri Channel flushes at the bottom line two times.
To turn the priority function, press PRI to show P at the top line and PRIon appears at the bottom line while
scanning. When stops scan at the priority channel it shows Pri Channel for 3 seconds and it is changed to
Weather Alert and sounds alert.
Notes:
• Priority WX is only for receiving a weather alert.
• When the scanner detects a 1050 Hz alert tone, priority WX activates and you receive a weather alert.
• If you program a weather frequency into the priority channel and the scanner detects a weather alert tone
on that frequency, the scanner sounds the alert tone.
CHANGING THE RECEIVE MODE
The scanner is preset to the most common AM or FM receive mode for each frequency range. The preset
mode is corrected in most cases. However, some amateur radio transmissions and trunked systems do
not operate in the preset mode. If you try to listen to a transmission when the scanner is not set to the
correct receive mode, the transmission might sound weak or distorted.
If you want to listen to trunking transmissions in closed mode, you might have to change the receive mode.
To change the receive mode, repeatedly press MODE. The receive mode changes as follows:
Display Description
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AM AM Mode
FM FM Mode
MO FM Mode, Motorola Trunking System (with a 4- or 5-digit ID code)
ED FM Mode, EDACS Trunking System (with 4-digit decimal ID code or 5-digit AFS code)
Note: The scanner does not change MO and ED mode when the scanner tunes frequency ranges that the
trunking operation does not use.
USING THE ATTENUATOR
To reduce interference or noise caused by strong signals, you can reduce the scanner’s sensitivity to these
signals.