Beyond the Basics
muting the alert tone
To temporarily mute the alert tone, press MUTE during a highway warning alert. The alert tone stops and MUTE
flashes until the alarm cycle finishes (3 minutes). To mute all alerts, hold down MUTE for 2 seconds. The scanner beeps twice and MUTE lights. Mute automatically resets when you turn your scanner off.
adjusting alert
ALERT has three settings: Bright, Dim, and Off. Repeatedly press FLASH to select Bright, Dim or Off. ALERT flashes and
the alert tone beeps. If you select Off, 
appears to remind you that ALERT is off.
Note | Turning off ALERT and muting the alert tone turns off the |
| highway warning alert. |
skip frequencies
To skip a frequency, press L/O. You can program up to 50 skip frequencies into the highway patrol priority frequency channel. You can also program up to 100 skip frequencies for other frequencies (see “Frequency Skip”). If you change the state code, skipped frequencies are cancelled as soon as scanning starts.
highway patrol priority channels
Each state preprogrammed in the scanner contains a number of highway patrol priority channels. Your scanner automatically checks a state’s priority channels every 2 seconds for activity. If there is activity on one of the priority channels, ALERT flashes and the alarm tone beeps (see “Highway Warning Alert”). You will experience a slight interruption in the conversations you hear as the scanner checks the priority channels. You can cancel the priority
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