Uniden BC796D APC0 25 Owner's Manual

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Using the MenuMany of your scanner’s functions are accessed through its menu system. For completeinformation about a menu option, see the section referencing its use. A complete list of themenu structure is included in the back of this manual. To select a menu item, first pressMENU to go to the first-level menu. Then, either press the number key corresponding to theoption you want to select, or use the scroll bar to highlight the option then press E.To back up a menu level, press MENU.Notes: • To change a setting that affects either a specific bank or channel, first select achannel within the bank or the channel that you want to modify.• To check the settings for a channel, press and hold MENU for 2 seconds.In this manual, we represent navigation through the menu with the following nota-tion:MAIN MENU → SUB MENU 1 → SUB MENU 2For example to access the DIMMER LIGHT option, the notation is:3:SYSTEM OPTION → 1:DIMMERTo access this option, press MENU, then scroll to each menu option and press E.Or, press MENU, 3, 1.• Some menu items are not numbered. To access these options, you must manual-ly navigate to the selection using the scroll bar.Manually Selecting a ChannelTo manually select a channel, press ▲/HOLD, the channel number, then ▲/HOLD again.The scanner displays the information stored in that channel.Notes: • If the channel contains trunked system information, frequency data is not dis-played.• If you are trunk scanning, you need to first press TRUNK to exit the trunkingmode.Scanning Programmed ChannelsBefore you can scan, you must first program channels. See the appropriate programmingsection for complete instructions.To begin scanning, simply turn on your scanner or, if the scanner is not currently scanning,press SCAN. The scanner checks each system you have programmed that is not locked outand stops if there is activity. SCAN scrolls across the display, right to left.When the scanner receives a signal on a programmed channel, it stops on that channel anddisplays the channel information (text tag, channel number, trunk mode).Locking/Unlocking BanksWhen you are scanning conventional banks, the scanner displays the digit corresponding toall unlocked banks. To lock out a bank so that the scanner does not scan its channels, pressthe number that corresponds to the bank. The scanner replaces that bank’s number with adash.20