Yaesu FT-817 Operating Manual

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53FT-817 Operating ManualScan Skip Programming (Memory Mode Only)Among the memories you have programmed, there may be some stations which you do notwish to scan. For example, broadcast signals (which are transmitted continuously) will causethe scanner to stop, and such channels may be skipped so as to avoid this inconvenience.To remove a channel from the scanning loop:1. Press the key momentarily, then rotate the knob, as needed, until OperatingFunction Row 2 [MW, MC, TAG] appears on the display.2. Recall the memory channel to be skipped.3. Press the (MC) key momentarily. The “hyphen” in thememory channel number will change to become a “dot”; thisshows that this channel now is not included in the scanning loop.4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 as many times as necessary to skip all thechannels you do not wish to scan.5. Initiate memory scanning; you will observe that the channelsyou marked to be skipped are not included in the scanning loop.6. Press the PTT switch to stop the scan; you may now use the knob to step throughthe channels manually - one at a time - and you will observe that the “Skipped” channelsare, nonetheless, available for recall by manual means.7. You may restore a previously-skipped channel to the scanning loop by selecting thechannel manually, then pressing the (MC) key momentarily so that the “dot” changesto become a “hyphen.”SCANNING O PERATIONScan-Resume ChoicesScanning operation requires that you have the transceiver’s audio squelched. Thetransceiver then “assumes” that the opening of the squelch corresponds to the dis-covery of a signal you may wish to listen to.Once the scan has been halted, the transceiver pauses on the signal and stays lockedon its frequency for five seconds (default pause time). Thereafter, scanning will re-sume whether or not the other station’s transmission has ended. The scan resumeinterval can be set to 3/5/10 seconds, or off ( whereby scanning quits when a signal isreceived) via Menu #41 (RESUME); see page 66 for details.[Memory Skip “OFF”][Memory Skip “ON”]