Uniden BCT-8 manual Scanning Overview, Turn the Scanner On

Scanning Overview

You can scan in one of four ways:

1.Highway Patrol Scanning When you select a state you want to scan in Highway Patrol mode, you can scan pre-programmed Highway Patrol frequencies.

2.Service Scanning Press SVC to select one of the nine services to find an active frequency.

3.Band Search Select a frequency band to search. The Search function is different from scanning. It searches for any active frequency step by step within the lower and upper limits of the band. When an active frequency is found, the scanner will stop and stay on that frequency as long as that transmission lasts. If that frequency is interesting to you, press HOLD/RESUME to hold the frequency on the display. Then program it into the private bank you want to store. If you do not want to program that frequency, press HOLD/RESUME or just wait until the transmission ends. The search resumes automatically 2 seconds after the last transmission and looks for more active frequencies.

4.Private Scanning If you have programmed frequencies into this bank, press PVT to scan only those that you have programmed in this bank.

Note: Before you can scan the Private Bank, you must program frequencies into the channels. To program frequencies, see “Programming Frequencies into Channels” on page 21.

When scanning stops on an active frequency, it remains on that channel as long as the transmission continues. When the transmission ends, the scanner will remain on the same channel for 2 more seconds, waiting for a responding transmission. If there is no responding transmission within 2 seconds, the scanning cycle resumes.

Turn the Scanner On

1. Turn the VOL knob clockwise.

The scanner is turned on: the Alert Light flashes and the Alert Tone beeps loudly.

Note: The Alert Tone depends on the currently setting selected (see page 17).

ALERT	MUTE
	push
VOL	ALERT
Turn
SQL	FLASH

ALERT MUTE

Alert	push
VOL	ALERT
Light

2. The last setting mode selected before starts.

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