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Creating Scannable Objects
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Creating Scannable Objects
Creating Scannable Objects
Understanding Object Menus
When you turn on your scanner for the first time, the scanner is in
Program Mode for you to create your first object into memory. If you
do not see this screen, press PROG.
Press NEW to
Create objects
NEW EDIT GLOB
Press F1 to
create a new
scannable
object.
Press F2 to
edit existing
object.
Press F3 to
change the
scanner’s global
configuration
settings.
1. Press F1, the NEW softkey, to begin entering a new object.
Select object
type to create
TGRP CONV SRCH
Press F1 to
create a new
Talkgroup
Object.
Press F2 to
create a new
Conventional
Object.
Press F3
to create a
new Search
Object.
2. For the purpose of this explanation, press F2, the CONV softkey.
3. The Conventional Channel menu opens.
q
CONV Channel
Scan Lists: *01
Freq: 25.000000
Save Exit Dflt
Menu name
Active menu item
Next menu item
(Scroll down for more
menu items)
Indicates cursor
location in menu
Menu softkeys. Press F1,
F2, and F3 to access.
Object menu notes:
• The first line of the display shows either:
to indicate the cursor is at the top position of the menu,
to indicate the cursor is at the bottom, or
to indicate
there are menu items above and below the cursor.
• The center (third) line of the display contains the blinking cursor
indicating the active menu item.
• To see the help text for the active menu item, press FUNC, then
press SEL on the 5-way pushbutton pad. To exit help, press SEL
again.
• The last line of the display shows the softkeys, which will change
with each menu. In this menu, the Save softkey will save your
new object to the file system, the Exit softkey aborts the
creation of the new object, and the Dflt softkey restores the
parameter of the
active menu item
to its default setting.