44 FT-2900E O PERATING M ANUALMEMORY SKIP SCANNINGWhen you have some continuously-active channels in memories, you may wish to skipthem for scanning, but still have them available for manual selection.To mask a memory to be skipped (only) during scanning, use the following procedure:1. Set the radio to the Memory Recall mode by pressing the [D/MR(MW)] key repeatedly,as necessary, until “MR” and a channel number appear on the right side of the display.2. Rotate the DIAL knob to select the Memory Channel to beskipped during scanning.3. Press and hold in the [MHz(SET)] key for one second, thenrotate the DIAL knob to select “47 SKIP47 SKIP47 SKIP47 SKIP47 SKIP.”4. Press the [MHz(SET)] key, then rotate the DIAL knob soas to select “SKIPSKIPSKIPSKIPSKIP”. The current Memory Channel will nowbe ignored during scanning. The “ONLYONLYONLYONLYONLY” selection is usedfor “Preferential Memory Scan,” described in the next sec-tion.5. Press and hold in the [MHz(SET)] key for one second to save the new setting and exitto normal operation.A “SKIP” icon will appear when you recall the “skipped”memory channel manually.To re-institute a channel into the scanning loop, select “OFFOFFOFFOFFOFF” in step 4 above, after firstrecalling the currently-blocked channel (the “Skipped” channel is accessible via manualchannel selection methods using the DIAL knob in the Memory mode, whether or not it islocked out of the scanning loop).S CANNING