You can scan preprogrammed systems more efficiently by preventing the BCD396T from scanning systems that are not in your area. There are three ways to do this:

Lock out the faraway systems (see “Locking/ Unlocking Systems” on Page 46).

Reassign your local systems to another quick key (see “Editing the System Quick Key” on Page 73).

Delete the faraway systems (see “Deleting Sys- tems” on Page 81).

Important! You cannot restore preprogrammed systems if you delete them.

Selecting Systems to Scan

To select systems to scan, press Scan then press the quick key assigned to the system or systems you want to scan. For quick keys 0-9, press the quick key’s number. For quick keys 11-99, press then press the quick key’s 2-digit number. To stop scanning the system(s), press (if the quick key is a 2-digit quick key) then the number button or buttons again.

The SYS indicators on the display show the systems that are currently selected.

To select or lock out a system that is not assigned to a key, press and hold FUNC while you rotate the scroll control until the desired system is selected. Then, continue to hold FUNC and press L/O to either lock out or unlock the system.

Selecting System Channel Groups

Within a system, you can assign groups of channels to a group quick key (see “Setting the Group Quick Key” on Page 83).

Follow these steps to activate or deactivate a channel group within a system while scanning.

Basic Operation

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Uniden BCD396T owner manual Selecting Systems to Scan, Selecting System Channel Groups