Uniden manual About Your New BC60XLT, Feature Highlights, What is Scanning?

About Your New BC60XLT

The BC60XLT is a brand new state-of-the-art information radio with automatic scanning capabilities. It can store frequencies such as police, fire/emergency, marine, amateur, and other communications into 10 channels.

Feature Highlights

10 Channels Program one frequency in each channel. You must have at least one channel programmed to use this scanner.

10 Bands, 29 MHz - 512 MHz Scan these frequency ranges with your scanner. (Note: The frequency coverage is not totally continuous from 29.0 MHz to 512 MHz.)

Weather Channels Use your scanner as a weather information radio.

Memory Backup Frequencies programmed in the channels are retained in memory for at least 1 day, and typically 3 days, when batteries are removed from the scanner.

What is Scanning?

Unlike standard AM or FM radio stations, most two-way communications (listed below) do not transmit continuously. The BC60XLT scans programmed channels at the rate of nearly 10 channels per second until it finds an active frequency.

Scanning stops on an active frequency, and remains on that channel as long as the transmission continues. When the transmission ends, the scanner stays on the channel for 2 more seconds after the transmission stops, waiting for another transmission. The scanning cycle then resumes until another transmission is received.

While the BC60XLT is scanning channels, it is in “SCAN Mode”. When you stop the scanning with M, it is in “MANUAL Mode”.

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